Dear Martin
I would say yes, that the use of "fraction" in area_fraction is for consistency
with all the other uses of "fraction" in standard names (mass, mole, time and
volume). In addition I would say that "cover" would be a confusing word to use,
because "land cover" often means "land surface t
Dear All,
The standard name table has been updated. The current version is now Version
63, dated 5 February 2019. The changes have also been published on the NERC
Vocabulary Server. No new names or aliases have been added in this update, but
as mentioned last time I have been making corrections
Hello John, others,
Thanks for those comments. I can see the value of maintaining consistency and
being careful about changing things which have worked well for a long time, but
I would rather not go back to the people who find the existing terminology
confusing (these are people who have spec
Dear Ranjini and Martin,
Thanks both for your comments on this name - I think we are close to agreement.
I agree with you both that the name should not say 'photosynthetic' since that
is defined as the range 400-700 nm and SIF is clearly outside that.
Ranjini says:
> we'd normally use nm-1 for
