Hi Bruce,
In the atmosphere CF has used 'mole_fraction_' to designate mole/mole
quantities.
Hence, perhaps we should use
MOLE_FRACTION_of_nitrate_to_phosphate_in_sea_water here?
The counter argument is that, in every existing CF std name I could find,
mol_fraction_ is always the mole ratio
Hi,
I was too quick in my last msg, sorry. Got to thinking about the n/p ratio and
checked it out with the people who programmed it. It is the ratio of mole
concentrations that we are calculating and putting into netCDF files. That's
what we suggest establishing a standard_name for.
Our moti
Dear Roy
I agree with what you say. But John and his colleague tell us that it is not
possible simply to describe the difference between pH total scale and sea-water
scale. Like you, I suggested that they could be described as being just [H+],
or the sum of [H+] and other ions, but that's not righ
Hello Jonathan/Nan,
In the case of pH I am still convinced that the quantities are different. If
we take an example of nitrate concentration in sea water. We would have no
compunction about setting up separate Standard Names for nitrate in moles/litre
and nitrate in moles/kg. Why is this dif
I totally agree with Philip. Mass and mole ratios differ by a factor of the
ratio of the atomic/molcular weights of the species concerned.
Cheers, Roy.
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