Dear Simon, Thank you for prompting this discussion - it seems there is certainly support for introducing a new standard name as follows: sea_water_temperature_anomaly (Canonical units: K) 'The term "anomaly" means difference from climatology. Sea water temperature is the in situ temperature of the sea water. To specify the depth at which the temperature anomaly applies, use a vertical coordinate variable or scalar coordinate variable.'
This name is accepted for publication in the standard name table and will be added in the next update, planned for December 17th. Two brief points arising from the discussion of this name: a) the addition of this name does not of course preclude any discussion of a different way of describing anomalies within the CF conventions in future; b) the appearance of a name in the standard names editor (as pointed out in Simon's most recent post) is a way to keep track of proposals as they progress through the various stages of discussion, but doesn't in any way replace the mailing list discussion. I will now mark sea_water_temperature_anomaly as 'accepted' in the editor, which means it will automatically be added to the list of published names at the next update. Best wishes, Alison ------ Alison Pamment Tel: +44 1235 778065 NCAS/Centre for Environmental Data Archival Email: alison.pamm...@stfc.ac.uk STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory R25, 2.22 Harwell Oxford, Didcot, OX11 0QX, U.K. From: CF-metadata <cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu> On Behalf Of Good, Simon Sent: 07 December 2018 15:53 To: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Sea water temperature anomaly standard name Hi, Thanks for the replies about this. I can see that the sea_water_temperature_anomaly name is submitted at http://cfeditor.ceda.ac.uk/proposal/3672 so thank you for setting that up. Let me know if I can be of any assistance in the discussion on whether there should be a more generic way of representing anomalies in the conventions in the longer term. Thanks, Simon _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
