Re: [CF-metadata] CMIP5 carbon cycle standard names

2010-09-22 Thread alison.pamment
Hi Pierre, My thinking here was that 'anthropegenic emissions' (which presumably include fossil fuel emissions) and 'fossil fuel' emissions themselves do not necessarily always occur at the earth's surface. For example, emissions from tall chimneys and aircraft may occur at many levels in the atm

Re: [CF-metadata] CMIP5 carbon cycle standard names

2010-09-22 Thread Pierre Friedlingstein
Alison, I see your point. As far as I know the anthropogenic emissions data will be surface fluxes. Data are based on country level consumption of fossil fuel, they don't have the info on where in the air it is released... Pierre On 22/09/2010 13:04, alison.pamm...@stfc.ac.uk wrote: Hi Pi

Re: [CF-metadata] CMIP5 carbon cycle standard names

2010-09-22 Thread Cameron-smith, Philip
Hi All, Even if the dataset doesn't have vertical information, if it includes aircraft emissions then the physical quantity it is quantifying is the vertical integral rather than the surface emission. In which case I would favour tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_ If there are no aircraft i