Dear Andreas We have a couple of standard_names of the form change_in_X and a few of the form X_anomaly (meaning difference from climatology). These are included for the kind of reason you mention. Do you think such a name for land ice amount would be appropriate for your need?
Best wishes Jonathan ----- Forwarded message from Andreas Groh <andreas.g...@tu-dresden.de> ----- > Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:50:05 +0100 > From: Andreas Groh <andreas.g...@tu-dresden.de> > To: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu > Subject: [CF-metadata] ice mass change standard name > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 > Thunderbird/38.5.1 > > Dear all, > > I am working on the determination of changes in continental ice mass > (mainly over the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica) from > satellite gravimetry data. The final product is a time series of > grids representing the ice mass relative to an arbitrarily chosen > reference value. A widely used reference value is the mean over the > entire time series. The unit is [kg m-2] (or mm water equivalent). > Now I want to distribute these data as a netcdf file which is in > agreement with the CF Conventions (v1.6). Unfortunately I cannot > find a suitable standard name for my data set. > For sea ice the standard name sea_ice_amount describes the mass of > sea ice per unit area. This is equivalent to the my land ice data > set. Hence, a standard name land_ice_amount could adequately > describe my data set. But it might also be misleading, since the > data are given relative to a reference value and do not provide > information on the absolute amount of land ice. > Has anybody experience with data sets on the change in land ice > masses and how to label these data with the correct standard name? > Any help or comment is appreciated. > > Thanks and best regards, > > Andreas > > -- > ----------------------------------- > Dr.-Ing. Andreas Groh > Institut für Planetare Geodäsie > Geodätische Erdsystemforschung > Technische Universität Dresden > D-01062 Dresden, Germany > phone : +49-351-463.33416 > fax : +49-351-463.37063 > email : andreas.g...@tu-dresden.de > web : tu-dresden.de/geo/ipg/gef > ----------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > 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
