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

From: Snaith, Helen M. <h.snaith>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 13:08:26 +0000

Hi Jonanthan

I was wondering what happened to these proposals?

They aren?t in the current list, and they don?t show in the Proposals fro CF (http://cfeditor.ceda.ac.uk/proposals/1)

Regards
Helen

On 27 Nov 2014, at 15:29, Lowry, Roy K. <rkl at bodc.ac.uk<mailto:rkl at bodc.ac.uk>> wrote:

Dear Jonathan,

A minor point - should be distance_from_geocenter as established practice is to use US spellings.

Cheers, Roy.
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From: Jonathan Gregory [j.m.gregory at reading.ac.uk<mailto:j.m.gregory at reading.ac.uk>]
Sent: 27 November 2014 14:17
To: cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu<mailto:cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu>
Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Standard Names for: Ocean Kinetic Energy and Relative Vorticity

Dear Napoleon

Ocean Kinetic Energy
standard name: ocean_kinetic_energy
unit: m2 s-2

With those units, this is specific kinetic energy i.e. per unit mass. There is
an existing stdname for this quantity viz specific_kinetic_energy_of_sea_water.

Ocean Relative Vorticy
standard name: ocean_relative_vorticity
unit: s-1

That's analogous to atmosphere_relative_vorticity so I think it's fine.

Gravity Potential Gradient
standard name: gravity_potential_gradient
unit: s-2

There is an existing stdname of specific_gravitational_potential_energy
in J kg-1 = m2 s-2. Since taking a gradient has a sign and direction, your
quantity could be called
 upward_derivative_of_specific_gravitational_potential_energy
for consistency with other names for derivatives, and it's in m s-2, isn't it?
- not s-2. However this quantity could also, more familiarly, be called the
acceleration_due_to_gravity i.e. g. Is it g you mean? I suppose g is the
vertical derivative of geopotential, which isn't quite the same as GPE. Are
you making a distinction here?

Radius from Geocenter
standard_name: radius_from_geocenter
unit: m

I would suggest calling this distance_from_geocentre. A radius is a property
of a geometrical figure, not a distance between two points.

Best wishes

Jonathan
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