[CF-metadata] aerosol water

Jonathan Gregory j.m.gregory at reading.ac.uk
Sun Oct 8 09:51:57 MDT 2006


Dear Christiane

> *aerosol water
> --------------
> aerosol_water_ambient_aerosol
> Jonathan porposed that the name should be the other way round. I do not 
> agree because a 'water aerosol' would be a hydrometeor, i.e., clouds or 
> precipitation.

I think I haven't understood what this name really means, sorry to say. I
was guessing it meant the water present in ambient aerosol. But perhaps
that is wrong?

I agree with you about "emission".

> Please note that the HTAP experiments already started. Hence, it will 
> not be possible to include all modifications resulting from our 
> discussion into the HTAP simulations.
Could you modify the netCDF files afterwards using ncatted for instance?

> However, the aerosol and chemistry 
> community is becoming familiar with CF and will be use these for future 
> experiments.
That's very good news - thanks to your effort in large measure, I expect.

Best wishes

Jonathan


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