Dear Ajay I hadn't replied because I'm not an expert in this subject. On general grounds, following the usual approach of CF standard names, I'd suggest that something more self-explanatory would be better than apparent_oxygen_utilization. Given your definition of what it means
> > definition: the difference between saturation oxygen content and observed > > oxygen content. what about difference_of_oxygen_per_unit_mass_in_sea_water_from_saturation We have other standard names with "difference" in them, for example difference_of_air_pressure_from_model_reference and we have quantities in mol kg-1, for instance moles_of_oxygen_per_unit_mass_in_sea_water and I'm basing my suggestion on those. The canonical unit for the standard name table should be mol kg-1, but you could have micromol kg-1 as your units, since they're physically equivalent. Cheers Jonathan ----- Forwarded message from Ajay Krishnan - NOAA Affiliate <ajay.krish...@noaa.gov> ----- > From: Ajay Krishnan - NOAA Affiliate <ajay.krish...@noaa.gov> > Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 11:54:17 -0500 > To: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu > Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Request for new standard-name: > apparent_oxygen_utilization > > Hi All, > > I had requested for a new standard name for apparent_oxygen_utilization > during the last week of November. Since, there have been no discussions on > it, I wanted to quickly > follow up on it. > > Thanks, > Ajay > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Ajay Krishnan - NOAA Affiliate < > ajay.krish...@noaa.gov> wrote: > > > Dear CF community, > > > > On behalf of NODC, I would like to request for a new standard name: > > > > apparent_oxygen_utiliziation (AOU) > > definition: the difference between saturation oxygen content and observed > > oxygen content. > > units: micromoles/kg > > > > > > Description is from Broecker and Peng, 1982, Tracers in > > the Sea > > http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~broecker/Home_files/ > > TracersInTheSea_searchable.pdf > > (pp 131-138) > > > > Some more detail in Garcia et al., World Ocean Atlas > > Volume 3: Dissolved Oxygen, Apparent Oxygen Utilization, and > > Oxygen Saturation. > > http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/woa/WOA13/DOC/woa13_vol3.pdf > > > > Thanks, > > Ajay > > > _______________________________________________ > CF-metadata mailing list > CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
