Dear Marcelo These look fine to me, thanks. Just to be clear - you're *not* proposing at_bottom, are you? I agree with you that at_sea_floor would be the right phrase to use.
Best wishes Jonathan ----- Forwarded message from Marcelo Andrioni <marceloandri...@gmail.com----- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 22:02:50 -0300 From: Marcelo Andrioni <marceloandri...@gmail.com> To: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu Subject: [CF-metadata] Suggestion for standard names for bottom current and due to tides and Stokes drift Hello, I would like to suggest the inclusion of standard names for u, v, speed and direction for bottom current and due to tides and Stokes drift: An example of model output with bottom velocity is the HYCOM NCODA forecast: https://tds.hycom.org/thredds/catalog/GLBv0.08/expt_93.0/data/forecasts/runs/catalog.html?dataset=GLBv0.08/expt_93.0/data/forecasts/runs/FMRC_RUN_2019-10-13T12:00:00Z water_u_bottom (m/s) = Eastward Water Velocity = eastward_sea_water_velocity_at_bottom water_v_bottom (m/s) = Northward Water Velocity = northward_sea_water_velocity_at_bottom based on existing variables: sea_water_potential_temperature_at_sea_floor sea_water_temperature_at_sea_floor sea_water_salinity_at_sea_floor sea_water_pressure_at_sea_floor my suggestion would be: eastward_sea_water_velocity_at_sea_floor northward_sea_water_velocity_at_sea_floor sea_water_to_direction_at_sea_floor sea_water_speed_at_sea_floor An example of model output with currents due to tides and Stokes drift is the Mercator Forecast: http://marine.copernicus.eu/services-portfolio/access-to-products/?option=com_csw&view=details&product_id=GLOBAL_ANALYSIS_FORECAST_PHY_001_024 based on existing variables: eastward_sea_water_velocity_assuming_no_tide northward_sea_water_velocity_assuming_no_tide ocean_vertical_momentum_diffusivity_due_to_tides ocean_vertical_tracer_diffusivity_due_to_tides my suggestion would be: eastward_sea_water_velocity_due_to_tides northward_sea_water_velocity_due_to_tides sea_water_to_direction_due_to_tides sea_water_speed_due_to_tides Stokes drift is present in the current CF table with: sea_surface_wave_stokes_drift_x_velocity sea_surface_wave_stokes_drift_y_velocity I think it could help to add sea_surface_wave_stokes_drift_eastward_velocity sea_surface_wave_stokes_drift_northward_velocity as aliases to make it clear it is zonal and meridional currents, and not just along the grid X and Y dimensions. Thank you very much. -- Marcelo Andrioni marceloandri...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata