Jonathan, Kevin,
I don't think that it is necessary to further qualify burned_area. If you
do an internet search for this term you always come up with hits related to
wildfire which would suggest that there is little ambiguity in this term. I
propose to add the vegetation fire relationship
Dear Kevin
burned_area and burned_area_fraction would be OK as standard names, I think,
but I would tend to agree with your suggestion that vegetation could also be
mentioned somehow, in order to make the standard_name more self-explanatory
when in the context of a dataset that might contain many
Dear colleagues,
I have now joined the list and should start receiving comments. To provide more
background, on some of the comments I've been sent.
1. I've based it on the sea ice term, it is similar.
2. We use the term severity to describe the level of burning. However, there is
much research
