Dear Karl
Yes, it is a bit vague. Mean sea level is a commonly used concept, but if you
wanted to be precise you would use standard names referring to geopotential
datum or geoid instead, and state which definition was being used in the
grid mapping. I think vagueness is OK in standard names if th
Dear all,
I kinda like the idea of changing "above sea level" to "above mean sea
level", but it still remains somewhat vague, since the period over which
the mean is computed isn't specified. Or is there some accepted time?
In any case maybe it is o.k. to be vague
best regards,
Karl
Jonathan,
I think the change to mean_sea_level sounds good.
Jim
On 5/25/17 10:02 AM, Jonathan Gregory wrote:
Dear Alison and Nan
Many thanks for doing this, Alison, and apologies that I didn't have time for
it sooner myself. I think this is all fine except for the phrase defining
geopotentia
Dear Alison and Nan
Many thanks for doing this, Alison, and apologies that I didn't have time for
it sooner myself. I think this is all fine except for the phrase defining
geopotential datum, which appears in several of them. I would say
The "geopotential datum" is any estimated surface of consta
