Dear Jonathan, All,
In the NEMO discussion thread we have just agreed three new sea surface height
change names. At the end of that discussion Jonathan proposed that we should
also add three similar names for changes in mean sea level:
> Although I haven't an immediate use-case, I would say it'
Dear Alison
Thanks for thinking about this.
> > I put [mean] in brackets because I'm not sure whether we've decided to
> > include
> > "mean" in MSL names (that's a different discussion). The above quantities
> > are
> > not global average; we already have global average names.
> >
> The usual
Hi Alison,
I sent a response to Karl a couple of weeks back on 'mean sea level', which
I'll repeat below:
' As an oceanographic data centre we come across the term 'mean' sea level
quite a lot. Common understanding of the generic term is that the averaging
interval is any period long enough t
Dear Jonathan and Alison,
A couple more things prompted by Jonathan's reply.
I totally agree with creating the aliases and like Jonathan's definition,
although I wouldn't specify 19 years anywhere. Even the standards like ODN are
averaged over less than 10 years. One year seems to be commonly u
Dear Roy and Alison
> To clarify, what I was getting at with the rationalisation of syntax was
> mixed use of 'average' and 'mean' for the same statistic and the fact that
> the names are opposite ways around. For example, instead of
> thermosteric_change_in_mean_sea_level and
> global_average
Dear Jonathan,
I'm OK with losing the 'principal'. I know what I mean by that, but there are
some (many) who might not!
Cheers, Roy.
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