Re: [CF-metadata] Practical Salinity units

2015-06-12 Thread Nan Galbraith
Hi Alison and all - Either of these definitions looks fine to me. I'd prefer Alison's, because John's version might be a little misleading - the phrase 'measure of salinity' has some implications that aren't cleared up fast enough in the text for me. I'm mainly interested in moving the units al

Re: [CF-metadata] Roms: ocean_s_coordinate_g1 and g2?

2015-06-12 Thread Jonathan Gregory
Dear Heiko We have to agree a new format for the source of the CF document, because the existing one appears hard to maintain, and that's one reason why CF 1.7 has not been completed. I hope this will be sorted out soon. All agreed tickets will be implemented. In fact, I don't see why we shouldn'

Re: [CF-metadata] How to define time coordinate in GPS?

2015-06-12 Thread Jonathan Gregory
Dear Jim It appears that we have some irreconcilable differences in interpretation but I am not sure that they make any difference in practice, which is fortunate if correct. > The definition of a calendar includes (by implication) the rules for how > to convert between an elapsed time count sinc

[CF-metadata] Page with searchable UDUNITS tables now available

2015-06-12 Thread Jim Biard
Hi. I have just made a web page that contains searchable lists of all UDUNITS units, symbols, and prefixes available at http://monitor.cicsnc.org/ (click on the "UDUNITS" entry on this page, then click on the "View now" link.) I thought the community might find this useful. It has a sub-set

Re: [CF-metadata] How to define time coordinate in GPS?

2015-06-12 Thread Timothy Patterson
Thanks for the explanations, Jim. I may be totally wrong here, but (if there were no need for backwards compatibility) it seems to me that the convention for the standard "time" variable could make use of constructs that are used elsewhere in the convention. The time variable contains a count o