[CF-metadata] Fwd: new standard_names

Burkhardt Rockel Burkhardt.Rockel at gkss.de
Thu Oct 13 02:12:12 MDT 2005


Dear All,

my request for standard names(see below) is still pending (since 16  
September).
I know it is a long list and I do not want to press anyone in the CF  
group to reply very quickly.
The issue is that people at the German Climate Research Centre are  
going to launch the 150 year RCM simulations at the beginning of  
November.
If you can make it to give me a decision until end of October, that  
would help very much. I could then avoid the adjustment in the post  
processing which means shuffling tons of gigabytes around.

Best Regards
Burkhardt




Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail:

> Von: Burkhardt.Rockel at gkss.de
> Datum: 16. September 2005 16:06:32 MESZ
> An: cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu
> Kopie: Burkhardt.Rockel at gkss.de, gayler at dkrz.de
> Betreff: new standard_names
>
>
>
> Dear All,
>
> in the EU project ENSEMBLES we intend to convert the climate  
> simulations of about 10 different regional climate models into the  
> netCDF CF-convention standard.
> Some of the output quantities are not in the CF standard name  
> tables  (I used the search utility provided on the WEB to check this).
> I produced a list of necessary standard names to be approved by the  
> CF-group (see below) which also includes additional quantities  
> often used in our simulations.
>
>
> Best Regards
> Burkhardt
>
>
>
> standard_name  units (explanation)
> --------------------
>
> water_potential_evaporation_amount   kg m-2
> runoff_amount              kg m-2
> surface_downward_momentum_flux  Pa
> sunshine_hours   h
> surface_snow_area_fraction   1
> field_capacity_of_soil  1
> porosity_of_soil  1
> canopy_wilting_point 1
> sea_ice_temperature  K
> land_use   1
> geostrophic_eastward_wind  1
> geostrophic_northward_wind  1
> surface_geopotential       m2 s-2
> surface_specific_humidity  1
> surface_downwelling_photosynthetic_radiative_flux  W m-2
> convective_cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer  1
> sub_scale_mass_fraction_of_cloud_liquid_water_in_air  1
> sub_scale_mass_fraction_of_cloud_ice_in_air  1
> mass_fraction_of_rain_in_air  1
> mass_fraction_of_snow_in_air  1
> mass_fraction_of_graupel_in_air  1
> precipitation_water_loading  1  (mass fraction of rain plus snow in  
> air)
> horizontal_divergence_of_mass_fraction_of_water_in_air  kg m-2
> convective_cloud_base_altitude  m
> convective_cloud_top_altitude  m
> layer_index_at_convective_cloud_base  1
> layer_index_at_convective_cloud_top  1
> dry_convection_top_altitude  1
> snow_fall_limit_altitude  m
> deviation_from_reference_air_pressure  Pa (used in non-hydrostatic  
> atmospheric models as prognostic variable where total pressure =  
> reference pressure + deviation from reference pressure)
> square_root_of_two_times_turbulent_kinetic_energy  m s-1
> diffusion_coefficient_of_momentum  m2 s-1
> diffusion_coefficient_of_heat m2 s-1
> atmosphere_surface_drag_coefficient_of_momentum  1
> atmosphere_surface_drag_coefficient_of_heat  1
> lwe_thickness_of_frozen_water_content_of_soil_layer  m
> convective_mass_flux  kg m-2 s-1
> moisture_convergence_in_the_air_for_kuo_type_closure  m s-1
> convective_turbulent_kinetic_energy  J kg-1
> soil_type   1
> air_pressure_at_ozone_maximum  Pa
> atmosphere_ozone_content  Pa
> coriolis_parameter  s-1
> atmosphere_enthalpy_content  J m-2
> atmosphere_potential_energy_content  J m-2
> horizontal_divergence_of_atmosphere_kinetic_energy W m-2
> horizontal_divergence_of_atmosphere_enthalpy  W m-2
> horizontal_divergence_of_atmosphere_potential_energy  W m-2
> model_layer_index_of_atmosphere_boundary_layer_top   1
> wind_speed_of_gust  m s-1
> upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air  W m-2
> downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air  W m-2
> upwelling_longwave_flux_in_air  W m-2
> downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air  W m-2
> tendency_of_air_temperature_due_to_radiative_heating  K s-1
> toa_net_downward_longwave_flux   W m-2
> normalized_cloud_depth  1   (cloud depth to 0-1 for TV presentations)
> modified_cloud_area_fraction 1  ( Computation of the total cloud  
> cover by minimum overlapping and multiply it by an empirical 'red'- 
> factor for TV presentations)
>
>
>
>
> -- the following definitions describe lake characteristics 
>
> land_lake_fraction  1
> lake_depth  m
> lake_surface_fetch  m
> depth_of_thermal_active_lake_layer  m
> temperature_at_top_of_sediments_layer  K
> temperature_at_bottom_of_sediments_layer  K
> solar_attenuation_coefficient_in_lake  m-1
> lake_surface_temperature  K
> lake_surface_snow_temperature  K
> lake_surface_ice_temperature  K
> lake_watercolumn_temperature  K
> lake_mixed_layer_temperature  K
> lake_bottom_temperature  K
> lake_shape_factor  1
> lake_surface_snow_thickness m
> lake_surface_ice_thickness m
> lake_mixed_layer_thickness  m
> thickness_sediments_upper_layer_of_lake  m
>

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Dr. Burkhardt Rockel
GKSS Forschungszentrum
Max-Planck-Strasse
D-21502 Geesthacht
Germany
Phone: +49 4152 87 2008
Fax: +49 4152 87 2020
Email: Burkhardt.Rockel at gkss.de
www: http://coast.gkss.de
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