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From: cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu
[mailto:cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Gregory
Sent: 14 April 2011 09:33
To: Justin R. Davis
Cc: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu
Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Proposal for new standard names: depth/bathy/topo
rel to datum
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Dear Justin
> sea_floor_depth_below_reference_datum (positive down)
looks fine to me.
Isn't this the same thing:
> bathymetry_below_reference_datum (postive down)
"bathymetry" means sea-floor depth, doesn't it?
For consistency with other stdnames, in particular
height_above_reference_ellip
Recently, there was added a standard name to define water level
referenced to an atrbitrary vertical datum:
water_surface_height_above_reference_datum
I'd like to propose that a new standard name be created to indicate the
sea floor depth to an arbitrary datum. Something along the lines of
