On 03/21/2013 02:12 PM, John Maurer wrote: > I believe the > canonical units in UDUNITS parlance would translate to "m-3", which is > what I find in the standard name table for other number_concentration_* > quantities.
Yup. If the dimension of the physical quantity is number per volume, then the SI unit would be "m-3". (The problem with the atmospheric surface density quantities is that they need to be convertable with areic amount of substance; consequently, "moles" and "molecules" creep in). --Steve _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
