Dimensionless. Please???? This is the view of physical oceanographers for whom I have the greatest respect.
Cheers, Roy. ________________________________________ From: Reyna Jenkyns [re...@uvic.ca] Sent: 22 May 2015 18:06 To: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu; OceanSITES Data Management Team; Nan Galbraith Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Salinity units I'm interested in this topic since I didn't realize what had been discussed previously, and now I think we must be non-compliant as well. Is this documented formally in the CF documentation? Reyna Jenkyns | Data Stewardship Team Lead - Digital Infrastructure Ocean Networks Canada | T 250 853 3908 | oceannetworks.ca University of Victoria PO Box 1700 STN CSC 2300 McKenzie Avenue Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2 ________________________________________ From: CF-metadata <cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu> on behalf of Nan Galbraith <ngalbra...@whoi.edu> Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 10:03 AM To: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu; OceanSITES Data Management Team Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Salinity units Hello all - It's been a long time, but is anyone interested in re-visiting the subject of units for practical salinity in CF? I was recently notified that my salinity data was likely to be overlooked by some users, because I'd used '1' as the units, not '.001'. Somehow, I'd forgotten the (long-ago) discussion on the CF list about salinity units. Some members of the OceanSITES project are interested in revising our format spec to encourage the use of '1' as an indication that salinity does not have units - but, of course, we'd mostly rather remain CF-compliant. Thanks for any feedback on this. Cheers - Nan On 6/17/09 2:48 AM, Lowry, Roy K wrote: > Dear All, > > During an exercise with Alison mapping the CF Standard Names to a > units vocabulary in the BODC vocabulary server I noticed that the > units for salinity were '1.00E-03', i.e. parts per thousand. My > understanding in that since the introduction of the Practical > Salinity Scale that salinity is dimensionless with units of '1'. Is > there agreement for our changing the units in the Standard Name > table? > > Cheers, Roy. -- ******************************************************* * Nan Galbraith Information Systems Specialist * * Upper Ocean Processes Group Mail Stop 29 * * Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution * * Woods Hole, MA 02543 (508) 289-2444 * ******************************************************* _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata _______________________________________________ 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
