Dear Alison, just a few minor replies:
> Thank you, Dirk, for providing a better definition of sea ice. I've taken > your sentence and added a little more, in the hope of making the intention as > clear as possible: ' "Sea ice" means all ice floating in the sea which has > formed from freezing sea water, rather than by other processes such as > calving of land ice to form icebergs.' Is that okay? Yes, this is fine with me. > > 1.14 Martin suggested, and we are now agreed, that this one should be: > tendency_of_surface_snow_amount_due_to_drifting_into_sea (kg m-2) > ' The phrase "tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. > "Amount" means mass per unit area. The phrase "surface_snow" means snow lying > on the surface. The specification of a physical process by the phrase > "due_to_" process means that the quantity named is a single term in a sum of > terms which together compose the general quantity named by omitting the > phrase. The quantity with standard name > tendency_of_surface_snow_amount_due_to_drifting is the rate of change of snow > amount caused by wind drift of snow into the sea. The snow is assumed to melt > as soon as it enters the sea.' I recommend to drop the last sentence. Models don't have to melt the snow as it enters the sea, though currently all I'm aware of do so. > water_flux_into_sea_water_from_sea_ice_due_to_surface_drainage (kg m-2 s-1) > 'The water flux into the ocean is the freshwater entering the sea water as a > result of precipitation, evaporation, river inflow, sea ice effects and water > flux correction (if applied). In accordance with common usage in geophysical > disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. > The specification of a physical process by the phrase "due_to_" process means > that the quantity named is a single term in a sum of terms which together > compose the general quantity named by omitting the phrase. "Surface drainage" > refers to all water melting at the sea ice surface and subsequently running > into the sea.' > > Is this okay? Almost :-) The phrase "all water melting at the sea ice surface" is a bit odd, I find. I'd prefer something like "refers to all melt water forming at the sea ice surface and subsequently running into the sea". Thank you very much! Dirk _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
