Hi Jonathan, et al., Sounds good to me. Especially the part about moving to a more grammatical system.
Best wishes, Philip ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Philip Cameron-Smith, p...@llnl.gov, Lawrence Livermore National Lab. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu [mailto:cf-metadata- > boun...@cgd.ucar.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Gregory > Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 1:57 PM > To: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu > Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] identification of vector components > > Dear Mark and Thomas > > I also think that we would do better to keep the current arrangement of > standard_names with the umbrella variable as an extra grouping. As you > may > remember, the question of whether CF standard names could be decomposed > into > separate words or atts has been discussed several times. My own view is > that > this would be very difficult and has disadvantages as well as > advantages. > Instead, I think would be better to make it easier to construct and > propose > new names systematically. A couple of years ago I did a fair amount of > work > on that, which I have not brought up to date, but it could be revisited > if > you think it is promising. For instance, please have a look at > http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~jonathan/CF_metadata/14.1 > > Since some of the concern is about backward compatibility, perhaps we > could > address Mark's need by defining new standard names for his more general > purpose, for example x_or_eastward_wind, thus not redefining the > existing ones. > > As a digression, we could also take the opportunity to make them more > systematic. With hindsight, it seems a mistake to me that we chose to > have > e.g. eastward_sea_ice_velocity and sea_ice_x_velocity, with the > component in > a different place. The reason was that the meaning of an x_ prefix to a > long > standard name might not be obvious. Perhaps xward_sea_ice_velocity > would be > better, and eastward_sea_ice_velocity and > eastward_or_xward_sea_ice_velocity. > > Best wishes > > Jonathan > _______________________________________________ > CF-metadata mailing list > CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata