Thanks, Jonathan and Roy! Your suggestions sound fine by me.
Cheers,
John Maurer
Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS)
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 09:05:08 +0000
> From: "Lowry, Roy K." <rkl at bodc.ac.uk>
> To: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory at reading.ac.uk>,
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> Dear Jonathan,
>
> Although long-winded your suggestion of:
>
>
> concentration_of_colored_dissolved_organic_matter_in_sea_water_expressed_as_equivalent_mass_fraction_of_quinine_sulfate_dihydrate
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> has the great advantage of preventing any confusion between this
> measurement and a true CDOM concentration determined by some other method.
> Having mass_fraction in there is particularly valuable as when we
> encountered this measurement the stock solutions used to calibrate the
> sensors had the QSD concentrations expressed in nM rather than ppb.
>
> I also agree dimensionless is the best choice for the Canonical Unit.
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> Cheers, Roy.
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