[CF-metadata] Salinity units

From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 16:46:52 +0100

Dear Nan

> I wish my CF email archive went back a little further, because there's
> nothing (since 2004) that I can find that explains the rationale for
> this unit. It certainly *looks* like a compromise between a unit for a
> non-dimensional variable and PPT

I think it is, but I can't remember the discussion, or whether there is a good
reason not to define a dimensionless unit psu=0.001 (but perhaps that has been
argued against already in the recent exchange of emails).

Best wishes

Jonathan
Received on Wed May 27 2015 - 09:46:52 BST