Dear Odele, We seem to have reached consensus on these names. Our usual practice in CF is to allow a final opportunity for people to contribute to the discussion, but if no objections are raised within the next seven days I will formally accept the names for inclusion in the standard name table. They will then definitely be added in the next version which will be v29, as you say.
There are also a lot of names proposed (and many agreed) in relation to the GOES-R satellite programme which I am intending to review and include as many as possible in the next standard name update. Thus v29 will mostly be adding a lot of remote sensing names. Best wishes, Alison ------ Alison Pamment Tel: +44 1235 778065 NCAS/Centre for Environmental Data Archival Email: alison.pamm...@stfc.ac.uk STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory R25, 2.22 Harwell Oxford, Didcot, OX11 0QX, U.K. > -----Original Message----- > From: Odele Coddington [mailto:odele.codding...@lasp.colorado.edu] > Sent: 04 June 2015 16:56 > To: Pamment, Alison (STFC,RAL,RALSP); cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu; > judith.l...@nrl.navy.mil; Peter Pilewskie > Cc: Daniel Wunder - NOAA Affiliate; Philip Jones - NOAA Affiliate > Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] New standard name requests for TSI and SSI > > Thank you, Alison. Indeed, we agree these are good names and are very > happy with the outcome. Echoing Jim¹s sentiments, thanks to all for the > hard work! > Alison, I¹d like to reference the correct standard name table version when > we include these with our metadata for the Solar Irradiance Climate Data > Record. Is it correct to assume that these would be included in the next > version of the table, v29? > > > Best regards, > Odele > > On 6/4/15, 8:11 AM, "alison.pamm...@stfc.ac.uk" > <alison.pamm...@stfc.ac.uk> wrote: > > >Dear All, > > > >I agree with Jonathan's recent summary of the discussion and support the > >standard names as suggested by Jim and Jonathan. Odele, Peter and > Judith, > >the proposers, have all previously indicated that this would be an > >acceptable solution, so I think we now have consensus on the names. > Based > >on the discussion in this thread and our usual wording for standard name > >definitions I suggest that the following be added to the standard name > >table: > > > >solar_irradiance (W m-2) > >'The quantity with standard name solar_irradiance, often called Total > >Solar Irradiance (TSI), is radiation from the sun integrated over the > >whole electromagnetic spectrum and over the entire solar disk. The > >quantity applies outside the atmosphere, by default at a distance of one > >astronomical unit from the Sun, but a coordinate or scalar coordinate > >variable of distance_from_sun can be used to specify a value other than > >the default. "Irradiance" means the power per unit area (called radiative > >flux in other standard names), the area being normal to the direction of > >flow of the radiant energy.' > > > >solar_irradiance_per_unit_wavelength (W m-2 m-1) > >'The quantity with standard name solar_irradiance_per_unit_wavelength, > >often called Solar Spectral Irradiance (SSI), is the radiation from the > >sun as a function of wavelength integrated over the entire solar disk. A > >coordinate variable for radiation wavelength should be given the standard > >name radiation_wavelength. The quantity applies outside the atmosphere, > >by default at a distance of one astronomical unit from the Sun, but a > >coordinate or scalar coordinate variable of distance_from_sun can be used > >to specify a value other than the default. "Irradiance" means the power > >per unit area (called radiative flux in other standard names), the area > >being normal to the direction of flow of the radiant energy. ' > > > >distance_from_sun (m) > >The distance from the sun to the point of observation. > > > >Are there any further comments on these names? > > > >Best wishes, > >Alison > > > >------ > >Alison Pamment Tel: +44 1235 778065 > >NCAS/Centre for Environmental Data Archival Email: > >alison.pamm...@stfc.ac.uk > >STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory > >R25, 2.22 > >Harwell Oxford, Didcot, OX11 0QX, U.K. > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: CF-metadata [mailto:cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu] On > Behalf > >> Of Jonathan Gregory > >> Sent: 01 June 2015 17:39 > >> To: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu > >> Cc: odele.codding...@lasp.colorado.edu > >> Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] New standard name requests for TSI and SSI > >> > >> Dear all > >> > >> Few opinions still have been given about whether we should change flux > >>to > >> flux_density in standard names, and those few are a majority against > >>doing > >> so. > >> Since the proposers aren't happy with "flux" for "irradiance" in W m-2, > >>I > >> think the best compromise is > >> > >> solar_irradiance (W m-2) > >> solar_irradiance_per_unit_wavelength (W m-3) > >> > >> where the definition should note that "irradiance" means the power per > >> unit > >> area (called radiative flux in other standard names), the area being > >>normal > >> to a vector from the Sun to the Earth, and the quantity applies outside > >> the atmosphere, by default at a distance of one astronomical unit from > >>the > >> Sun, but a coordinate or scalar coordinate variable of > >>distance_from_sun can > >> be specified to replace the default. > >> > >> distance_from_sun (m) > >> > >> is therefore also required as a new standard name. > >> > >> Best wishes > >> > >> Jonathan > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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
