Re: [CF-metadata] Sea water temperature anomaly standard name

2018-12-10 Thread Alison Pamment - UKRI STFC
Oxford, Didcot, OX11 0QX, U.K. From: CF-metadata On Behalf Of Good, Simon Sent: 07 December 2018 15:53 To: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Sea water temperature anomaly standard name Hi, Thanks for the replies about this. I can see that the sea_water_temper

Re: [CF-metadata] Sea water temperature anomaly standard name

2018-12-07 Thread Good, Simon
Hi, Thanks for the replies about this. I can see that the sea_water_temperature_anomaly name is submitted at http://cfeditor.ceda.ac.uk/proposal/3672 so thank you for setting that up. Let me know if I can be of any assistance in the discussion on whether there should be a more generic way of r

Re: [CF-metadata] Sea water temperature anomaly standard name

2018-12-06 Thread Jonathan Gregory
Dear Roy It's also fine to discuss things on the email list. GitHub is replacing trac as the platform for proposals to change the convention. > I totally disagree with this statement, which was similar to the one I > received a couple of years ago. The way names should be defined should be > b

Re: [CF-metadata] Sea water temperature anomaly standard name

2018-12-05 Thread Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal
Hi All: I will move this over to Github as suggested, but one last comment. I totally disagree with this statement, which was similar to the one I received a couple of years ago. The way names should be defined should be based on what makes the most sense and is most consistent with present

Re: [CF-metadata] Sea water temperature anomaly standard name

2018-12-05 Thread Jonathan Gregory
Dear all I too think it's fine to have a standard name for sea water temperature anomaly. While I understand the concern about potentially huge numbers of anomaly standard names, I don't think we need to deal with it by any other means at present because very few have been proposed. There are just

Re: [CF-metadata] Sea water temperature anomaly standard name

2018-12-05 Thread John Graybeal
1) I support Simon/Roy’s request, it seems straightforward. 2) Roy M, it would be good to get that discussion topic in a ticket, so we can continue it there. But, I should warn you, I also went through that argument about 12 years ago, and I can vouch that the CF metadata community has been con

Re: [CF-metadata] Sea water temperature anomaly standard name

2018-12-05 Thread Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal
> On Dec 5, 2018, at 7:18 AM, Lowry, Roy K. wrote: > > I also feel that this could take some time and do not feel it would be fair > to block Simon's request until it is resolved. There are a number of anomaly > Standard Names and one more isn't going to make a great deal of difference. nev

Re: [CF-metadata] Sea water temperature anomaly standard name

2018-12-05 Thread Lowry, Roy K.
il address. From: Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal Sent: 05 December 2018 14:35 To: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu Cc: Lowry, Roy K. Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Sea water temperature anomaly standard name Interesting. Look at the archive around April 4, 2016. I was requesting a st

Re: [CF-metadata] Sea water temperature anomaly standard name

2018-12-05 Thread Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal
rature within a water body. > > Cheers, Roy. > > I have now retired but will continue to be active through an Emeritus > Fellowship using this e-mail address. > > > From: CF-metadata on behalf of Good, Simon > > Sent: 05 December 2018 13:12 > To: cf-metadata

Re: [CF-metadata] Sea water temperature anomaly standard name

2018-12-05 Thread Lowry, Roy K.
:12 To: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu Subject: [CF-metadata] Sea water temperature anomaly standard name Hello, I am generating some data that is the difference between a variable with standard name sea_water_temperature and a climatology and I am not sure what to use for the standard_name. T

[CF-metadata] Sea water temperature anomaly standard name

2018-12-05 Thread Good, Simon
Hello, I am generating some data that is the difference between a variable with standard name sea_water_temperature and a climatology and I am not sure what to use for the standard_name. There is an existing standard name sea_water_temperature_difference but I am not sure if this is supposed to