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<p>On Friday 25 January 2008 10:17, Christiane.Textor@lsce.ipsl.fr wrote:</p>
<p>> Hello again,</p>
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<p>> To persue the discussion, I directly comment on your statements below:</p>
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<p>> "As you say, IUPAC would be an alternative."</p>
<p>> I agree that the short names are much more convenient, but was told that</p>
<p>> IUPAC nomenclature is obligatory in CF. If ambiguities arise, this should</p>
<p>> be generally be clarified, but I do not see the difficulty when omitting</p>
<p>> the punctuation, as the position 112 does not exist in ethane ( in</p>
<p>> mole_fraction_of_112trichlorotrifluoroethane_in_air)</p>
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<p>If IUPAC is compulsory we will of course follow it. I would suggest, however, that something along the lines of `IUPAC is compulsory' should be placed in the CF conventions document. </p>
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<p>> "we are suggesting `_burden' to > indicate a global integral"</p>
<p>> I am sorry, I realize that I did not read your previous emails carefully</p>
<p>> enough. But my comment shows that the use of burden is ambigous, as it is</p>
<p>> also used in the community for the column integral. I would suggest to</p>
<p>> call it global_integral if this is what you want.</p>
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<p>If approved, it should be clear to users that `_content' and `_burden' are related but different. `_content' is certainly not unambiguous in itself, it only becomes unambiguous by being part of the convention. My feeling is that the two concepts, the existing `_content' and the proposed `_burden' are sufficiently close that there is significant benefit in keeping to the same name structure, rather than introducing '...integral..'. </p>
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<p>I was not following the discussion when `_content' was adopted, but it appears that it has been settled that it is appropiate to use this structure rather than `column_integral', which would be the obvious analogue of `global_integral'. Hence, in order to have a consistent syntax within CF I'd prefer to stick with '_burden',</p>
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<p>cheers,</p>
<p>Martin</p>
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