[CF-metadata] standard names for surface aerosol optical properties

2013-10-13 Thread Jonathan Gregory
Dear Markus Thanks for your work on this. They generally look consistent and clear to me. I have comments on a few aspects. surface_particle_number_concentration_at_stp_in_aerosol (and other similar names). Could this be said more clearly as surface_number_concentration_of_aerosol_in_air_at_stp?

Re: [CF-metadata] standard names for sediment trap data

2013-10-13 Thread Lowry, Roy K.
Hello Jonathan, One change I would recommend is to change composition terms such as 'composition_ratio_of_silicon_30_to_silicon_28_in_sinking_flux' to 'composition_ratio_of_silicon_30_to_silicon_28_in_suspended_matter'. The reason for this is that the particles in the water can be collected in

Re: [CF-metadata] standard names for sediment trap data

2013-10-13 Thread Jonathan Gregory
Dear Matthias et al. Thanks for the proposals. I don't know much about this subject. From a CF point of view, I'd like to follow up various comments that have been made. As Roy says, CF doesn't decide what quantities should be used; its role is to agree names for quantities that are used in pract