[CF-metadata] New standard name requests for TSI and SSI

From: Jim Biard <jbiard>
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2015 09:19:16 -0400

+1

On 6/3/15 9:12 AM, Jonathan Gregory wrote:
> Dear Tim
>
>> Just a quick comment on the proposed standard name
>>
>> distance_from_sun (m)
>>
>> It seems ambiguous to me, as a distance implies a measurement between two points, and this specifies only one.
> In this case, the other point is the place where the measurement applies,
> so the distance from the sun is a coordinate for the geophysical quantity,
> like e.g. height_above_reference_ellipsoid or projection_x_coordinate, which
> are also standard names for coordinates in units of distance. We could use the
> same coordinate name for any quantity one might measure in space as a function
> of distance from the sun, not just the irradiance, and not necessarily at the
> location of the Earth or any other body.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jonathan
> _______________________________________________
> CF-metadata mailing list
> CF-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu
> http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata

-- 
CICS-NC <http://www.cicsnc.org/> Visit us on
Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/cicsnc> 	*Jim Biard*
*Research Scholar*
Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites NC <http://cicsnc.org/>
North Carolina State University <http://ncsu.edu/>
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information <http://ncdc.noaa.gov/>
/formerly NOAA?s National Climatic Data Center/
151 Patton Ave, Asheville, NC 28801
e: jbiard at cicsnc.org <mailto:jbiard at cicsnc.org>
o: +1 828 271 4900
/Connect with us on Facebook for climate 
<https://www.facebook.com/NOAANCEIclimate> and ocean and geophysics 
<https://www.facebook.com/NOAANCEIoceangeo> information, and follow us 
on Twitter at _at_NOAANCEIclimate <https://twitter.com/NOAANCEIclimate> and 
_at_NOAANCEIocngeo <https://twitter.com/NOAANCEIocngeo>. /
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/pipermail/cf-metadata/attachments/20150603/123363ab/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: CicsLogoTiny.png
Type: image/png
Size: 15784 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/pipermail/cf-metadata/attachments/20150603/123363ab/attachment-0001.png>

Received on Wed Jun 03 2015 - 07:19:16 BST