Dear Jonathan,
Many thanks for your constructive response. As always your Standard Name grammar is more precise than mine and so I am happy with your suggestions providing Elodie and her colleagues have no problems.
Cheers, Roy.
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From: CF-metadata [mailto:cf-metadata-bounces at cgd.ucar.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Gregory
Sent: 04 May 2016 14:05
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Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Waves
Dear Roy
Thanks for redefining "wave height". That helps me understand!
> - sea_surface_wave_average_height
Could this be "mean" instead of "average"?
> - sea_surface_wave_height_of_highest_tenth
Given the definition, shouldn't this be
sea_surface_wave_mean_height_of_highest_tenth
> - sea_surface_wave_height_of_the_highest_crest
> - sea_surface_wave_deepest_trough
The definitions of these are symmetrical but the names aren't. For symmetry and consistency with other names, I'd suggest sea_surface_wave_maximum_crest_height
sea_surface_wave_maximum_trough_depth
thus avoiding "wave height", because it's not a wave height in your new definition.
It is not unprecedented for "mean" and "maximum" to appear in standard names.
I understand why you prefer to do it this way, although using cell_methods seems preferable to me. For significant wave height and mean of highest tenth we would need new cell_methods, which aren't needed elsewhere, so the argument is less strong for me in those cases.
Best wishes
Jonathan
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