Re: [CF-metadata] Negative emissions?

2016-03-08 Thread Karl Taylor
I agree that this is common usage and acceptable as is, but if someone wants to go to the trouble of adding clarification in the description that would obviously be nice. Karl On 3/8/16 5:47 AM, Jonathan Gregory wrote: Dear Martin I feel that it's OK. The use of the word "emission" indicates

Re: [CF-metadata] Confusing skin temperature and interface temperature

2016-03-08 Thread Karl Taylor
Hi all, I, for one, would find Martin's wording an improvement and with the addition of "subskin" temperature complete (adding "subskin" to one of Martin's sentences): "More specific terms, namely sea_surface_skin_temperature, sea_surface_subskin_temperature, and surface_termperature are av

[CF-metadata] Negative emissions?

2016-03-08 Thread Jonathan Gregory
Dear Martin I feel that it's OK. The use of the word "emission" indicates the sign *convention* for the quantity, if it's interpreted as a signed quantity. I think that is all right because people actually do talk about "negative emissions" of CO2. If this is the general view, but if it there is c

[CF-metadata] Negative emissions?

2016-03-08 Thread martin.juckes
Hello All, The CMIP6 data request will, like the CMIP5 data request, include a request for a variable defined as "Carbon Mass Flux into Atmosphere Due to All Anthropogenic Emissions of CO2" with CF Standard Name "tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_carbon_dioxide_expressed_as_carbon_due_to_a

Re: [CF-metadata] Confusing skin temperature and interface temperature

2016-03-08 Thread Craig Donlon
Genius and sounds like a good solution to me. Regards Craig -- *** Sent from my iPhone *** -- Dr Craig Donlon Sentinel-3 Mission Scientist, Principal Scientist for Oceans and Ice European Space Agency/ESTEC Keplerlaan 1, 2201 AZ Noordwijk The Netherlands e: craig.don...@esa.int t: +31 (0)715

[CF-metadata] Confusing skin temperature and interface temperature

2016-03-08 Thread martin.juckes
Hello All, Karl has raised an objection to the wording " not the skin " which was carried over from the current CF Standard Name definition for sea_surface_temperature in my suggested update. The update is intended to correct a currently erroneous reference to "surface_temperature" as