Term: deployment_latitude

Unit: degree_north

Unit ref: DEGN

AMIP:

GRIB:

Latitude at deployment. The deployment position of a station changes after maintenance or repositioning after it drifts. It is positive northward; its units of degree_north (or equivalent) indicate this explicitly.

Term: deployment_latitude

Unit: degree_north

Unit ref: DEGN

AMIP:

GRIB:

The latitude of deployment of a station or instrument. The term can be used whenever the deployment position of a station or instrument needs to be supplied along with other types of positions. If a data variable has only one latitude coordinate variable, the standard name of latitude should generally be preferred to deployment_latitude, because latitude is recognised by generic software. If the deployment latitude is also the nominal latitude for a discrete geometry (as in Section 9.5 of the CF convention), the deployment latitude should also, or instead, be recorded in a coordinate variable with the standard name of latitude and axis="Y". Latitude is positive northward; its units of "degree_north" (or equivalent) indicate this explicitly.