On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 11:53 PM, Ute Br?nner <Ute.Broenner at sintef.no> wrote:
> This is a citation of the CF standard
> > The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere.
> "Water" means water in all phases, including frozen i.e. ice and snow. A
> velocity is a vector quantity. "Eastward" indicates a vector component
> which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). < (
> http://cfconventions.org/Data/cf-standard-names/28/
> build/cf-standard-name-table.html)
>
> In our model we distinguish between ice velocity and the water velocity
> under the ice in addition to the (average) water velocity in the upper
> layer. Guess we would be fine if surface_eastward_sea_water_velocity and
> surface_northward_sea_water_velocity would not include ice per definition.
>
I"d like that too.
unfortunately, someone put ""Water means water in all phases, including
frozen i.e. ice and snow." in that definition at some point -- can we
change it now?
I wonder it was there for a real use case, or if that was a definition of
"water" from elsewhere that got cut&pasted in...
-CHB
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