Dear Dave and Alison
Ah, I see. What about harvested_vegetation_products? That seems a bit more
obvious to me than anthropogenic_product_pool. It is three letters longer.
Or even just harvested_vegetation?
Best wishes
Jonathan
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> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:06:47 -0700
> From: David Lawrence <dlawren at ucar.edu>
> To: Alison Pamment <alison.pamment at stfc.ac.uk>
> CC: cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu, Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory at reading.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] New LUMIP variables
>
> 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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