Re: [CF-metadata] new TEOS-10 standard names

2011-11-28 Thread Jonathan Gregory
Dear Alison This is great. Thanks for going through it so thoroughly. (b) sea_water_temperature There is agreement to retain the standard name sea_water_temperature as this is useful particularly for observations. It currently has no explanatory text. In response to the discussion I

Re: [CF-metadata] FW: netcdf for particle trajectories

2011-11-28 Thread Chris Barker
On 11/25/2011 5:01 AM, Ute Brönner wrote: Hi folks, I kind of lost track of our latest discussions and had the feeling that this was partly outside the mailing group; yes, it was -- we had some discussion among a subset of teh CF list that was interested in particle model output. so I

Re: [CF-metadata] FW: netcdf for particle trajectories

2011-11-28 Thread Chris Barker
On 11/26/2011 9:14 AM, John Caron wrote: Im intending to incorporate the netcdf-4 C library into the netcdf-java library using JNI. Im hoping to have something working in the next few months, but we'll see. This will be an optional component, and will obviously make portability an issue. Good

Re: [CF-metadata] [cf-satellite] Ang.: Making a proposal for the addition of the geos projection

2011-11-28 Thread Randy Horne
Martin: Discussion with our Image Navigation and Registration lead (Dr. Jim Carr) reveals that the EUMETSAT GEOS projection is not the same as the GOES-R projection (i.e. the ABI fixed grid). The reason has to do with the gimbaling characteristics of the two imagers. Both of the imagers are

Re: [CF-metadata] new TEOS-10 standard names

2011-11-28 Thread Rainer Feistel
Paul, regarding the unit of an implemented quantity, in the SIA library we have added unit tags to any of them, such as sea_density_si where _si indicates that the value is given in SI basic units, kg/m3 in this case. If non-basic SI units or non-SI units are used, this is explicitly indicated in