Dear Andreas
We have a couple of standard_names of the form change_in_X and a few of the
form X_anomaly (meaning difference from climatology). These are included for
the kind of reason you mention. Do you think such a name for land ice amount
would be appropriate for your need?
Best wishes
Jonathan
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> From: Andreas Groh <andreas.groh at tu-dresden.de>
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> Subject: [CF-metadata] ice mass change standard name
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> Dear all,
>
> I am working on the determination of changes in continental ice mass
> (mainly over the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica) from
> satellite gravimetry data. The final product is a time series of
> grids representing the ice mass relative to an arbitrarily chosen
> reference value. A widely used reference value is the mean over the
> entire time series. The unit is [kg m-2] (or mm water equivalent).
> Now I want to distribute these data as a netcdf file which is in
> agreement with the CF Conventions (v1.6). Unfortunately I cannot
> find a suitable standard name for my data set.
> For sea ice the standard name sea_ice_amount describes the mass of
> sea ice per unit area. This is equivalent to the my land ice data
> set. Hence, a standard name land_ice_amount could adequately
> describe my data set. But it might also be misleading, since the
> data are given relative to a reference value and do not provide
> information on the absolute amount of land ice.
> Has anybody experience with data sets on the change in land ice
> masses and how to label these data with the correct standard name?
> Any help or comment is appreciated.
>
> Thanks and best regards,
>
> Andreas
>
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