Dear Mike
I agree that petroleum_hydrocarbons is more specific and therefore preferable.
Is it possible to omit "total", or does it have a specific meaning too and
therefore convey some extra information? It would be good to be explicit if
that is the case.
Best wishes
Jonathan
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> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 15:57:35 +0000
> From: mikegodino at yahoo.com
> To: "Lowry, Roy K." <rkl at bodc.ac.uk>, Ute Br?nner <Ute.Broenner at sintef.no>,
> "'cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu'" <cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu>
> CC: Petter R?nningen <Petter.Ronningen at sintef.no>, J?rgen Skancke
> <Jorgen.Skancke at sintef.no>, Tor Nordam <Tor.Nordam at sintef.no>, CJ
> Beegle-Krause <CJ.Beegle-Krause at sintef.no>
> Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] New standard name for
> mass_fraction_of_petroleum_in_sea_water
>
> Dear Ute and Roy,
> Thank you for your careful consideration and deliberation on my proposal. ?I would be satisfied by replacing "petroleum" in my original suggestion with either Ute's suggestion of "contaminant" or Roy's suggestion of "total_petroleum_hydrocarbons", although I find the latter a little more specific, particularly if one were to envision a situation in which intentionally released dispersants were being tracked at the same time and also categorized as "contaminants".
> As to the question of mass concentration vs. mass fraction, I am trying to represent the measurements of the?SeaOWL UV-A sensor (http://wetlabs.com/SeaOWL), which appears to be calibrated in units of ppm -- and hence mass fraction seems appropriate. ?The model that will assimilate these measurements is under active development, and may likely generate a mass concentration value. ?So perhaps there ought to be both?mass concentration AND mass fraction?standard names.
> Thank you,Mike Godin
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