Hello Alison, Surely the canonical unit for Dobson Units would be moles per square metre, with Dobson Units appearing as the scaled unit in the units parameter attribute. Making Dobson Units the canonical unit would be like having cm/s rather than m/s as a canonical unit.
Cheers, Roy. ________________________________________ From: CF-metadata [cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu] On Behalf Of alison.pamm...@stfc.ac.uk [alison.pamm...@stfc.ac.uk] Sent: 03 December 2012 14:18 To: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] new standard name proposal for total ozone in DU 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 This message (and any attachments) is for the recipient only. NERC is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the contents of this email and any reply you make may be disclosed by NERC unless it is exempt from release under the Act. Any material supplied to NERC may be stored in an electronic records management system. _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
