Dear Martin
I agree with your suggestions and clarifications. It would be good to keep
"heat content" because it is widely understood (in the sense that we use it,
J m-2). I agree that "content" implies the amount of something per unit area
integrated over the vertical extent of something else. It
Hi Jonathan,
I had objected to mass_fraction earlier, but if it is immediately
followed, for example, by "of_rainfall" it won't get confused with the
mass_fraction used to describe a single species in a mixture.
I don't like "amount" because although it is a ratio, I think it
normally descri
Dear Alison et al.
I still find myself tripping over rainfall_mass. Why not rainfall_amount,
rainfall_flux or rainfall_rate? They would all be the same number, since it's
a *fraction*. Another possibility would be a reordering to
mass_fraction_of_rainfall_falling_onto_surface_snow (1)
mass_fra
Dear Alison and Martin
> 3.1 hfrs Heat transferred to snowpack by rainfall [W m-2]
>
> Martin has suggested the following:
> surface_downward_sensible_heat_flux_due_to_rainfall_temperature_anomaly
> The rainfall temperature anomaly is the temperature of the snow relative to
> the zero Celsius. T
Dear Alison and Dirk
> It has taken me a little while to understand this name, but I am beginning to
> grasp it!
> sea_ice_horizontal_shear_strain_rate_maximum_over_coordinate_rotation (s-1)
I think the concept and definition are fine, but the name could maybe be made
a bit clearer. The last sen
Hello Jonathan,
I agree that the "integral_wrt_depth_" is a little surprising here, but I think
it is better than saying temperature when we mean "temperature times thickness".
In any case, we have a term:
tendency_of_sea_water_potential_temperature_expressed_as_heat_content
which is intende
Dear Alison and Steve
I suggest that we can be more relaxed about units for X_expressed_as_Y, so that
X and Y don't have to be dimensionally equivalent. We can express the change in
temperature of an ocean layer as a change in heat content by using the heat
capacity - that's the idea of these name
Dear Stephen,
Thank you for getting back to me.
A CF standard name for integral_wrt_depth need not necessarily be interpreted
as a full ocean depth quantity. The limits of the integral are specified by
placing bounds on the vertical coordinate variablle that is attached to the
data variable. T
Dear Dirk,
Thank you to you and Bruno for looking at these definitions again. I willl make
the changes you have requested.
All three names are now accepted for publication in the standard name table and
will be added in the 2nd July update.
I am pleased to say that we have now agreed all the n
