[CF-metadata] Standard Names for: Ocean Kinetic Energy and Relative Vorticity

From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:34:31 +0000

Dear Napoleon

> Is it the convention to include the direction in the name? We will be
> calculating the gradient in more then one axis (Txy, Txz, etc, for a
> total of 6 quantities).

Yes, it is the convention. There are not many tensor quantities named but it
is not unpredented e.g. downward_eastward_momentum_flux_in_air. As you see,
both sign and direction are indicated.

Best wishes

Jonathan
Received on Wed Dec 17 2014 - 06:34:31 GMT