Dear Roy
There are a handful of standard names for anomalies of the form X_anomaly,
where X is some other standard name. You could propose a new one for this.
It could be sea_surface_foundation_temperature_anomaly, like the existing ones,
but if that's too hard to understand,
anomaly_in_sea_surface_foundation_temperature
might be clearer.
"anomaly" could be handled by some other new CF convention if it was needed
for hundreds of quantities. This is of course possible, but so far there have
been few requests for anomaly names, so it's easier and sufficient to create
new standard names for them, I think.
Best wishes
Jonathan
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> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 08:16:52 -0700
> From: Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal <roy.mendelssohn at noaa.gov>
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> Subject: [CF-metadata] Standard attributes for anomaly
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> Hi All:
>
> We have been given files related o sea surface temperature. The observed value has the attributes:
>
> analysed_sst:long_name = "analysed sea surface temperature" ;
> analysed_sst:standard_name = "sea_surface_foundation_temperature" ;
>
>
> and the climatology has the attributes:
>
> mean_sst:long_name = "climatological mean sea surface temperature" ;
> mean_sst:standard_name = "sea_surface_foundation_temperature" ;
>
> What would be the proper attributes for the anomaly calculated from these?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Roy
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