Dear Roy > I also failed to understand Jonathan's comment concerning an alias - spot > measurements and depth-integrated measurements are very different quantities.
My comment referred to units. If quantity X has units involving per m2 but does not say "per_unit_area" in its name, and then quantity Y is proposed which is a similar thing to X but is per m3 and it is proposed to include "per_unit_volume" in its name, it may be helpful to rename X as X_per_unit_area, of which the original X will be an alias. The unit being per m2 doesn't imply it's an area-mean. It could still be a spot measurement like e.g. radiative fluxes in W m-2. Best wishes Jonathan _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
