Dear Jeff,
Thank you for your standard name proposal for water column height and
thanks to all who have contributed comments to this discussion. The
consensus view seems to be that
> sea_floor_depth_below_sea_surface
is an acceptable name for this quantity and that it is consistent with
the exist
Hello Alison,
There are a lot of potential reference datums. I have a vocabulary containing
31 examples plus two nulls (http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/list/L111/current or
http://seadatanet.maris2.nl/v_bodc_vocab/search.asp?name=(L111)%20Vertical+Co-ordinate+Reference+System+Origins&l=L111
in pla
Hi Alison,
*About the 'water level' vs 'sea surface height'
In the case of Jeff needs would only concern ocean data, would you mind if I
ask CF to introduce both? I was about to ask CF for such quantities on rivers
and lakes..
*About reference datum, my opinion is that considering CF sta
Thank you for the discussion and current status regarding
sea_floor_depth_below_sea_surface as a new standard name. I have changed the
subject line of this email to focus on the other names we discussed. I have
also CCed our local water level expert (Andrea Hardy from NOAA CO-OPS); my
replies
Dear Jeff, Alison et al.
Like Alison, I prefer sea_surface_height to water_level, because it's really
the same geophysical quantity at the coast and far from the coast, isn't it. It
seems awkward to me to say that the satellite altimeter measures SSH, while a
tide gauge measures water level. The a
Jonathan Gregory wrote:
As for sea, lake and river - this is a vexed question we have never resolved!
If only there were a simple word which meant any of the three!
That's why 'water_' seems preferable, in my view.
Cheers,
Jeff DLB
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Dear Jeff
> >As for sea, lake and river - this is a vexed question we have never
> >resolved!
> >If only there were a simple word which meant any of the three!
>
> That's why 'water_' seems preferable, in my view.
Unfortunately "water" occurs not just in the sea, lakes and rivers, but also
in t
The term 'water_' is preferable to me too.
When this liquid occurs underground, it still is appropriate to
measure this quantity (and temperature, and other things). And when it
occurs in the atmosphere, I don't think the term has any meaning --
measuring the height of atmospheric water is
