[CF-metadata] standard names for "grid relative" sea ice velocity and stresses

[Knut Lisæter]

Dear Jonathan,

the use of sea_ice_x_velocity is fine by me, and perhaps better for  
grouping
things  together alphabetically. I just found that there were
alias entries for sea_water_velocities:

sea_water_x_velocity
alias: x_sea_water_velocity

but, as I said, sea_ice_x_velocity is fine by me.


Best regards,
Knut






On Nov 28, 2005, at 9:18 AM, Jonathan Gregory wrote:

> Dear Knut
>
> For consistency with the sea water names your velocity components  
> should be
> called
>
> sea_ice_x_velocity:m s-1
> sea_ice_y_velocity:m s-1
>
> OK?
>
> Your others
>
> surface_downward_x_stress
> surface_downward_y_stress
> downward_x_stress_at_sea_ice_base
> downward_y_stress_at_sea_ice_base
>
> look right to me. It has been commented before that it would be  
> useful if we
> had some convention for helping software to work out what x- and y- 
> directions
> meant locally, but this hasn't been done yet.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jonathan
> http://www.cgam.nerc.ac.uk/~jonathan/
>