Dear Ajay
I hadn't replied because I'm not an expert in this subject. On general grounds,
following the usual approach of CF standard names, I'd suggest that something
more self-explanatory would be better than apparent_oxygen_utilization. Given
your definition of what it means
> > definition: the difference between saturation oxygen content and observed
> > oxygen content.
what about
difference_of_oxygen_per_unit_mass_in_sea_water_from_saturation
We have other standard names with "difference" in them, for example
difference_of_air_pressure_from_model_reference
and we have quantities in mol kg-1, for instance
moles_of_oxygen_per_unit_mass_in_sea_water
and I'm basing my suggestion on those.
The canonical unit for the standard name table should be mol kg-1, but you
could have micromol kg-1 as your units, since they're physically equivalent.
Cheers
Jonathan
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> From: Ajay Krishnan - NOAA Affiliate <ajay.krishnan at noaa.gov>
> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 11:54:17 -0500
> To: cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu
> Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Request for new standard-name:
> apparent_oxygen_utilization
>
> Hi All,
>
> I had requested for a new standard name for apparent_oxygen_utilization
> during the last week of November. Since, there have been no discussions on
> it, I wanted to quickly
> follow up on it.
>
> Thanks,
> Ajay
>
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Ajay Krishnan - NOAA Affiliate <
> ajay.krishnan at noaa.gov> wrote:
>
> > Dear CF community,
> >
> > On behalf of NODC, I would like to request for a new standard name:
> >
> > apparent_oxygen_utiliziation (AOU)
> > definition: the difference between saturation oxygen content and observed
> > oxygen content.
> > units: micromoles/kg
> >
> >
> > Description is from Broecker and Peng, 1982, Tracers in
> > the Sea
> > http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~broecker/Home_files/
> > TracersInTheSea_searchable.pdf
> > (pp 131-138)
> >
> > Some more detail in Garcia et al., World Ocean Atlas
> > Volume 3: Dissolved Oxygen, Apparent Oxygen Utilization, and
> > Oxygen Saturation.
> > http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/woa/WOA13/DOC/woa13_vol3.pdf
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ajay
> >
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