Dear Alison > surface_downward_heat_flux_in_snow; Wm-2
I think there is a need to have distinct surface heat fluxes in the media on either side of the surface because there might be a phase change going on actually at the interface, so there would then be a vertical divergence in heat flux at the interface. > 2. sea_ice_surface_temperature; K > The CMIP5 long_name for this quantity is 'Temperature at Interface > Between Sea Ice and Snow'. I would like to amend my suggestion for this > name to be temperature_at_interface_between_sea_ice_and_snow which I > think makes the meaning clearer and far less likely to be confused with > sea ice temperature at the interface with the atmosphere (which is just > surface_temperature). I think I prefer your original suggestion, because there might not be any snow. If all the snow melts, your new quantity seems to become meaningless. However, the sea_ice_surface_temperature still exists, and is identical with the surface_temperature. > 3. sea_ice_transport OR sea_ice_transport_across_line; kg s-1 > The CMIP5 output document asks for 'Sea Ice Mass Transport Through Fram > Strait'. We already have the standard name > sea_ice_transport_across_line defined as 'Transport across_line means > that which crosses a particular line on the Earth's surface; formally > this means the integral along the line of the normal component of the > transport.' I am not sure how the Fram Strait transport is defined - is > it calculated along a notional line or do we need a more general > quantity? I think sea_ice_transport_across_line is sufficiently general. Any application which wants to use it will have to define the line. The exact definition of the line across the Fram Strait in a model will be model-dependent, but the idea is well defined. Best wishes Jonathan _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
