[CF-metadata] sea_water_turbidity

2013-03-04 Thread John Maurer
Yes, I agree with Roy's assessment. Thank you. Cheers, John Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:19:01 + From: "Lowry, Roy K." To: "alison.pamm...@stfc.ac.uk" , "cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu" Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] sea_water_turbidity? Message-ID: <40829b0e077c1145a6de44d39b3830a922989b

Re: [CF-metadata] standard names for ocean model turbulent quantities

2013-03-04 Thread Tuomas Karna
Dear Alison, Thank you for your reply. I was indeed looking at older version of the standard, thanks for pointing that out. My comments below. 1. For the kinetic energy, in contrast to my initial suggestion, it seems that "turbulent kinetic energy" would be more appropriate name for this va

[CF-metadata] sea_water_turbidity?

2013-03-04 Thread John Maurer
Hi Jonathan, Turbidity is a measure of water clarity, the degree to which light entering a column of water is scattered by suspended solids. Suspended solids include things such as mud, algae, plant/animal material, and fecal matter. Factors contributing to water turbidity include soil erosion, ele

[CF-metadata] global attribute interpretation

2013-03-04 Thread Hedley, Mark
I would appreciate community views on the interpretation of global attributes from a NetCDF file. Scenario: - My file has multiple data variables and a list of global attributes. - I am loading one data variable and the associated information from one file. Question: - The global attribut