Re: [CF-metadata] Recording "day of year on which something happens"

2017-03-21 Thread Bärring Lars
Dear Jon, dear all, Many thanks for raising this issue, and for moving the discussion towards the summary below. Indeed, it is timely to raise this issue. As it happens, within the European IS-ENES2 project we had a small technical workshop last week dealing with closely related issues. Among

Re: [CF-metadata] geoid, sea surface, height, and standard names

2017-03-21 Thread Karl Taylor
On 3/21/17 9:20 AM, Jonathan Gregory wrote: Dear Karl sea_surface_height_above_geoid I'm not sure it's true that "In an ocean GCM the geoid is the surface of zero depth". Many ocean models have an ocean surface that rises above the geoid in some areas and falls below in other areas.

[CF-metadata] geoid, sea surface, height, and standard names

2017-03-21 Thread Jonathan Gregory
Dear Karl > sea_surface_height_above_geoid > > The geoid is a surface of constant geopotential with which mean sea > level would coincide if the ocean were at rest. (The volume enclosed > between the geoid and the sea floor equals the mean volume of water > in the ocean.) In an ocean GCM the

Re: [CF-metadata] Wave periods sub-proposal

2017-03-21 Thread Elodie Fernandez
Dear all, Thank you Alison for all your work on our wave proposal, and thanks for postponing the table update. I agree with all of your suggestions, for updated definitions and new names. Regards, Elodie On 16/03/2017 16:57, alison.pamm...@stfc.ac.uk wrote: > > Dear Stephane, > > > > Thanks