Excellent. Just what I needed. Thanks, John! Cheers, John On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:11 AM, John Graybeal <jgrayb...@ucsd.edu> wrote:
> Hi John, > > Make sure you are using the current standard name table, from > http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-standard-names/. There is a > sub-link on Google (has been for a long time) to a list from 2009, maybe CF > folks can mechanically create a hint from there to the current list.... > > Anyway, quite probably the one pH that exists is the one you want (copied > from > http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-standard-names/standard-name-table/22/cf-standard-name-table.html): > sea_water_ph_reported_on_total_scale. It is indeed dimensionless. > > Previously I have proposed names for several other measurements of pH that > produce different numbers because they are performed in different ways, but > I didn't have a current use for those names so they were not included. Let > me know or look back in the CF list if you need to dig them up. (There may > be an active-but-older request to add a few back in? Not sure.) > > John > > > On Mar 12, 2013, at 14:00, John Maurer wrote: > > > Hi all, > > What is the recommended CF standard name associated with pH? In > particular, the dataset I am working with reports the pH of sea water > samples. I could not find anything related to pH in the standard name table > online, but perhaps I'm not using the correct search terms. Since pH is not > a recognized UDUNIT, I'm also assuming the units for a pH quantity would be > "1" (dimensionless)? > > Thanks, > > John Maurer > > Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS) > > University of Hawaii at Manoa > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CF-metadata mailing list > > CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu > > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata > > > ---------------- > John Graybeal <mailto:jgrayb...@ucsd.edu> phone: 858-534-2162 > Product Manager > Ocean Observatories Initiative Cyberinfrastructure Project: > http://ci.oceanobservatories.org > Marine Metadata Interoperability Project: http://marinemetadata.org > > > > > > > >
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