Dear All,

The standard name table has been updated with the changes listed at the end of 
this message.

The current version of the table is now 31, dated 8 March 2016. The links on 
the CF website have been updated accordingly and the standard name changes have 
also been published on the NERC vocabulary server.

Links to the list of people who have contributed to the standard names over the 
years have been added to the following pages: 
http://cfconventions.org/documents.html and 
http://cfconventions.org/standard-names.html. Many thanks to Jeff Painter and 
Matthew Harris at PCMDI for helping to track down the original file from the 
old CF website. The list should now be up to date, but apologies if I have 
accidentally left out anyone's name. Please let me know if you spot any errors 
or omissions.

The next update to standard names will take place on 5 April.

Best wishes,
Alison

1. New names

acoustic_signal_roundtrip_travel_time_in_sea_water (canonical units: s)
change_in_land_ice_amount (canonical units: kg m-2)
downward_air_velocity (canonical units: m s-1)
dry_atmosphere_mole_fraction_of_carbon_dioxide (canonical units: 1)
dry_atmosphere_mole_fraction_of_methane (canonical units: 1)
eastward_land_ice_velocity (canonical units: m s-1)
northward_land_ice_velocity (canonical units: m s-1)
number_of_days_with_surface_temperature_below_threshold (canonical units: 1)
single_scattering_albedo_in_air_due_to_ambient_aerosol_particles (canonical 
units: 1)

2. Modification to definitions of existing names

The definition of upward_air_velocity  has been modified to cross reference the 
new name downward_air_velocity.

3. Modification to units of existing names

A correction has been made to the units of one name after Martin Juckes 
reported an error:
tendency_of_specific_humidity_due_to_stratiform_cloud_and_precipitation_and_boundary_layer_mixing
 (Canonical units change from K s-1 to s-1)

4. New aliases for existing standard names

No new aliases are included in this update.

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Alison Pamment                                                       Tel: +44 
1235 778065
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis         Email: alison.pamm...@stfc.ac.uk
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory     
R25, 2.22
Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0QX, U.K.

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