Re: [CF-metadata] units for sea water salinity

2010-08-04 Thread Steve Emmerson
Hi, On 08/04/2010 02:55 AM, Jonathan Gregory wrote: ... > (1) PSU (and PSS) are not udunits, and for that reason the canonical unit > given in the standard name table is actually 1e-3 (dimensionless). For a long > while we have had an intention to produce a CF variant of the udunits table > to inc

[CF-metadata] units for sea water salinity

2010-08-04 Thread Jonathan Gregory
Dear Upendra > This is in regard to the units corresponding to the standard name > sea_water_salinity. We here at NODC use PSS, which is unitless, for > Salinity. PSU is not a good way to represent salinity and shouldn't be > used. The units for sea_water_salinity should be changed to PSS in th