Rich,
Thanks for bringing this up. I checked with some of our hydrology folks who use both WaterML and CF for gage station time series, and they think this sounds fine.
dka
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David K Arctur, PhD
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Research/Academic Advocate, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
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On Apr 29, 2016, at 10:15 AM, Signell, Richard <rsignell at usgs.gov> wrote:
CF folks,
There are a bunch of hydrology standard_names, but none that seem
appropriate for one of the most common quantities, plain old "river
discharge".
We currently have "water_volume_transport_into_sea_water_from_rivers"
with the right units "m3/s", but in the CF Standard Name list, but
this name is described as:
"Water means water in all phases. The water flux or volume transport
into sea water from rivers is the inflow to the ocean, often applied
to the surface in ocean models."
How about a new standard_name called:
"water_volume_transport_in_river_channel"
with canonical units "m3/s" ?
Thanks,
Rich
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