Hmm, interesting! I remember looking closely at the platform standard
names, but not thinking
about platforms moving straight up or down.
Could you use platform_speed_wrt_ground along with platform_course or
_orientation?
||Instead of adding 'upward' to the std name, could you supply it as an
attribute for speed?
I thought there might be a standard attribute in ACDD for this info, but
there really isn't.
How do people supply descent rate for the millions of CTDs that are in CF?
Cheers - Nan
On 8/29/16 4:30 PM, Jim Biard wrote:
Leslie,
That sounds like a good name, assuming that you really need one. CF
does not require a standard name for every variable. The primary
intention of standard names is to make it easier to see that you are
comparing apples to apples with data (or at least quinces to apples,
as opposed to hat-racks to apples).
If you think the benefits of having a standard name are great enough
to go through the minimal bother, then make a "formal" request in an
email to the list.
Grace and peace,
Jim
On 8/29/16 3:10 PM, Leslie Hartten (NOAA Affiliate) wrote:
Dear List,
I am putting together a radiosonde dataset and trying hard to stick
with CF Standard Names. I have combed through the table
(http://cfconventions.org/Data/cf-standard-names/current/build/cf-standard-name-table.html)
and this list's archives, but found nothing that would obviously work
as a name for the ascent rate of a radiosonde. At present, I have
taken the name " platform_speed_wrt_ground" and prefaced it with
"upward_", since there is horizontal motion w/r/to the ground that is
not considered in this variable.
Does anyone have an already legal suggestion for radiosonde ascent
rate? Should I request a new variable,
"upward_platform_speed_wrt_ground"?
Many thanks for any assistance. I never even knew about CF
standard names until I started QC'ing data from our field program and
trying to create good data files!
Cheers,
Leslie
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