[CF-metadata] Explanation of mass_concentration_of_water_vapor_in_air ?

2010-12-13 Thread Bruno PIGUET
Dear all, Is it possible to make suggestion for the small text describing the names in the CF standard name table ? I yes, I would suggest to modify the text describing mass_concentration_of_water_vapor_in_air. The beginning of the sentence is clear, and anybody is able to understand

Re: [CF-metadata] Web reference to a standard name?

2010-12-13 Thread Benno Blumenthal
We have tried to get standard URIs for CF concepts, but the effort bogged down. As for standard names, MMI established a set of URIs at http://marinemetadata.org/cf but has not been keeping up to date. I have written a XSL transform at

Re: [CF-metadata] Web reference to a standard name?

2010-12-13 Thread Lowry, Roy K.
Hi Benno, That's a pretty thorough overview of the current position. One minor point is that the URIs you give from my system serve version 9 - not the current version. Replace the '9' by 'current' to get the latest version e.g. http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/list/P071/9

Re: [CF-metadata] Web reference to a standard name?

2010-12-13 Thread Carlos Rueda
Hello Dominic and all, MMI maintains an SKOS-based representation of the CF standard names at the MMI Ontology Registry and Repository (ORR): http://mmisw.org/ont/cf/parameter In your browser, this URL will open the ontology in the ORR Portal. You can click the Versions button to see a

[CF-metadata] CF 1.5 and discrete Sampling Geometries

2010-12-13 Thread Upendra Dadi
Hi folks, Can someone please let me know when Discrete Sampling Geometries (https://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/trac/wiki/PointObservationConventions) be part of CF officially ? Is this chapter going to be added to CF eventually? Or is this page defunct? I don't see any mention of CF:featureType in

Re: [CF-metadata] potential temperature

2010-12-13 Thread Karl Taylor
Dear Jonathan, I support this proposal, except I'd suggest defining also reference_pressure_for_potential_density. Hopefully, an ocean modeler will weigh in on this, but I think potential density may be directly calculated in ocean models, in which case it would be odd to assume that one

Re: [CF-metadata] Explanation of mass_concentration_of_water_vapor_in_air ?

2010-12-13 Thread Cameron-smith, Philip
Sounds like a good idea to me. Philip --- Dr Philip Cameron-Smith, p...@llnl.gov, Lawrence Livermore National Lab. --- -Original Message- From:

[CF-metadata] bounds not allowed for scalar coordinate variables

2010-12-13 Thread Karl Taylor
Dear all, Does anyone remember, why we didn't allow the bounds attribute to be attached to a scalar coordinate variable? Currently CF requires the user to include a dimension a size one if he wants to define coordinate bounds: The advantage of using a coordinate variable is that all its

Re: [CF-metadata] Web reference to a standard name?

2010-12-13 Thread John Graybeal
A minor clarification as to how MMI is doing things: Benno, all, On Dec 13, 2010, at 07:25, Benno Blumenthal wrote: We have tried to get standard URIs for CF concepts, but the effort bogged down. As for standard names, MMI established a set of URIs at http://marinemetadata.org/cf

Re: [CF-metadata] Web reference to a standard name?

2010-12-13 Thread Benno Blumenthal
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 5:27 PM, John Graybeal jbgrayb...@mindspring.comwrote: A minor clarification as to how MMI is doing things: Benno, all, On Dec 13, 2010, at 07:25, Benno Blumenthal wrote: We have tried to get standard URIs for CF concepts, but the effort bogged down. As for

Re: [CF-metadata] bounds not allowed for scalar coordinate variables

2010-12-13 Thread Steve Hankin
On 12/13/2010 1:50 PM, Karl Taylor wrote: Dear all, Does anyone remember, why we didn't allow the bounds attribute to be attached to a scalar coordinate variable? Currently CF requires the user to include a dimension a size one if he wants to define coordinate bounds: The advantage of

Re: [CF-metadata] potential temperature

2010-12-13 Thread Benno Blumenthal
I am a bit rusty at this, but in the ocean potential temperature and salinity are preserved in an adiabatic transition, potential density is not because the eq-of-state is non-linear. So potential density is spoken of in the ocean, but it gets one into trouble because if parcels are moved far