I agree about the soil water variable. Revised name is good.
As far as product pools, Alison is correct. It is anything from harvested
vegetation that is made into a "thing" and therefore the carbon is not sent
straight back to the atmosphere or to the ground. The 'thing' that is made
includes wood products and harvested crop yield.
Dave
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 6:19 AM, <alison.pamment at stfc.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear Jonathan,
>
> Thanks for looking through the LUMIP names again.
>
> > * mass_content_of_water_in_soil would sound clearer to me than
> > soil_mass_water_
> > content, which I misread as "soil mass". It's fine for me but I note
> that we
> > used soil_moisture_content originally because it's always called that. So
> > it was one of the cases where the standard name table used existing
> terms,
> > rather than more systematic ones. If Dave is happy with it we can rely
> on his
> > representing the land surface science community. :-)
> >
> OK, I hadn't realised the history of the name, but I think it is better to
> refer to 'water' rather than 'moisture' as long as it doesn't confuse
> people. I see what you mean about the order of the words.
> mass_content_of_water_in_soil sounds good to me so, unless Dave objects,
> let's use that version.
>
> >
> > * I understand better now what is meant by anthropogenic_product_pool
> but I
> > am
> > not clear still. Does it mean things made by people out of wood?
> >
> Dave has suggested the following definition for anthropogenic products:
> > "Examples are paper, cardboard, timber for construction, and crop
> harvest for food or fuel." (Some models put crop harvest into a short
> time-scale 'product' pool which is
> > treated the same way (e-folding decay) as the wood product pool).
> so I think it could be regarded as "things, including food and fuel, made
> by people out of harvested vegetation". Perhaps Dave can comment further.
>
> Best wishes,
> Alison
>
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