Dear colleagues, The fire disturbance ECV project will be quantifying burned area at a range of scales. There are standards for emissions, but nothing on area.
I would like to request new standard names, burned_area and burned_area_fraction. Burned seems to be more popular with American English, as opposed to Burnt (I have looked at a few web sites). burned_area "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. The units would be m2 burned_area_fraction "X_area_fraction" means the fraction of horizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Burned area fraction is area of the land surface occupied by burn scars. The units would be 1 If the word burned did not work, we could always add the word vegetation to make it more clear. I would be happy to take your views and comments on this. Kind regards, Kevin Tansey p.s. Do I need to join the mail list to get comments? _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
