Dear Christophe and Jonathan, I also support this proposal. We don't currently have any standard names that use Dobson Units - I think UDUnits1 didn't support it. However, since it is defined in UDunits2 I don't see any problem with adding it.
Best wishes, Alison ------ Alison Pamment Tel: +44 1235 778065 NCAS/British Atmospheric Data Centre Email: alison.pamm...@stfc.ac.uk STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory R25, 2.22 Harwell Oxford, Didcot, OX11 0QX, U.K. > -----Original Message----- > From: CF-metadata [mailto:cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu] On Behalf > Of Jonathan Gregory > Sent: 27 November 2012 20:52 > To: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu > Subject: [CF-metadata] new standard name proposal for total ozone in DU > > Dear Christophe > > > So I'd like to propose the following variable name for total ozone > > columns based on recommendations I was given: > > - "atmosphere_mole_content_of_ozone" expressed in Dobson Units. > > Dobson Unit (DU) is already defined in the UDUNIT package ans is > > equivalent to 446.2 micromoles m-2. > > This seems fine to me. It is consistent in construction with existing > names > for a quantity in mol m-2. > > Best wishes > > Jonathan > _______________________________________________ > CF-metadata mailing list > CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata -- Scanned by iCritical. _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
