Dear Rich, All, Thanks for proposing the river discharge name. The discussion so far seems to be leading towards introducing a single name: water_volume_transport_in_river (canonical units: m3 s-1).
At the moment we don't have a definition for this name so I'm suggesting the following (based on existing definitions): ' The water flux or volume transport in rivers is the amount of water flowing in the river channel. Water means water in all phases.' Is this OK? Do we need to elaborate any further? I think if we can settle on the definition, this name can be accepted for addition to the standard name table. Best wishes, Alison ------ 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. > -----Original Message----- > From: CF-metadata [mailto:cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu] On Behalf > Of David Blodgett > Sent: 09 May 2016 15:08 > To: Signell, Richard > Cc: CF metadata; Jonathan Gregory > Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Proposed standard_name for river discharge > > I would wait till people have a use case that can drive specific names. > > > On May 9, 2016, at 8:00 AM, Signell, Richard <rsign...@usgs.gov> wrote: > > > > Dave, > > Do you think we should also introduce other water_volume_transport > > quantities together to make this clear? > > > > water_volume_transport_in_river_channel > > water_volume_transport_over_land > > water_volume_transport_in_??? > > > > -Rich > > > > On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 10:14 AM, David Blodgett <dblodg...@usgs.gov> > wrote: > >> I actually suggested ‘in river channel’ to rich because of the potential to > segregate into flow in fluvial sediments below the channel or in a > floodplain disconnected from the channel, etc. > >> > >> Cheers! > >> > >> - Dave > >> > >>> On May 3, 2016, at 9:09 AM, Jonathan Gregory > <j.m.greg...@reading.ac.uk> wrote: > >>> > >>> Dear Rich > >>> > >>>> How about a new standard_name called: > >>>> > >>>> "water_volume_transport_in_river_channel" > >>>> > >>>> with canonical units "m3/s" ? > >>> > >>> That's certainly a reasonable quantity to give a name too. Is "channel" > >>> necessary? > >>> > >>> 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 > > > > > > > > -- > > Dr. Richard P. Signell (508) 457-2229 > > USGS, 384 Woods Hole Rd. > > Woods Hole, MA 02543-1598 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
