Whatever name you come up with, the canonical unit of the heave rate
shouldn't be "ms-1", but rather one of the following:
m s-1
m/s
m.s-1
I favor "m/s".
Regards,
Steve Emmerson
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 6:32 AM, Hamilton, Steve <sj.hamilton at fugro.com>
wrote:
> Hi
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> I am trying to find the CF name for heave of a vessel or platform.
> platform_roll_angle and platform_pitch_angle already exist but nothing on
> heave
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> Would be the following be acceptable
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> Platform_heave (m)
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> Platform_heave_rate (ms-1)
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> Standard names for platform describe the motion and orientation of the
> vehicle from which observations are made e.g. aeroplane, ship or satellite.
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> Kind Regards,
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> Steve
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