[CF-metadata] Suggestion for a new entry to the list of CF standard names

From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 15:57:13 +0000

Dear Birgit

> standard name: Ozone number density
> alternatively: Ozone number concentration
> unit: molecules/m^3
>
> Some ozone satellite instruments (like the ?Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment?, SAGE, or the ?Polar Ozone and Aerosol Measurment?, POAM) measure ozone in their native unit number density (number of ozone molecules that are present in a m^3 of air).
> We want to add an ozone data set to the National Climate Data Center (NCDC), and have to be CF compliant. Ozone number density does not seem to be on the CF standard names list, and we would therefore like to add it.

There are several standard_names of the form number_concentration_of_X_in_air
in m-3, so I suggest this one shoudl conform to that pattern i.e.
number_concentration_of_ozone_molecules_in_air. Would that be OK?

Cheers

Jonathan
Received on Thu Oct 30 2014 - 09:57:13 GMT