[CF-metadata] standard name proposal for CCMVal

[Martin Juckes]

I'm not aware of any usage of passive which is inconsistent with the 
definition of `not active'. 

I can't see the relevance of the second part of your question. Are you 
seriously suggesting that the method of initialising  model variables should 
be included in the names?

Martin

On Friday 07 March 2008 13:17, you wrote:
> > The question was why not use passive to mean not active? It is not a 
> > complicated concept. 
> The answer is the same, though. Is there any other use of "passive" in atmos
> chem than the one you propose? If that is the only meaning, it is not such a
> problem. If "passive" could mean "not" various combinations of aspects of
> "active", it is not informative enough by itself. If "passive tracers" are
> initialised in other ways than the one you describe e.g. being released to
> diagnose some process during the experiment, again it might not be 
sufficiently
> informative. Standard names are intended to give enough detail to show what
> is comparable between datasets. Jonathan
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