freezing_temperature_of_sea_water
under discussion
Created: 5 Feb 2024
Proposer: Jonathan Gregory & Lars Barring
Proposed Date: 2024-01-10
Change Date: 5 Feb 2024, 3:36 p.m.
Term: freezing_temperature_of_sea_water
Unit: K
Unit ref: UPKA
AMIP:
GRIB:
Change Date: 5 Feb 2024, 3:42 p.m.
Term: freezing_temperature_of_sea_water
Unit: K
Unit ref: UPKA
AMIP:
GRIB:
It is strongly recommended to include a units_metadata attribute.
Change Date: 9 Feb 2024, 3:09 p.m.
Term: freezing_temperature_of_sea_water
Unit: K
Unit ref: UPKA
AMIP:
GRIB:
In order to convert the units correctly, it is essential to know whether a temperature is on-scale or a difference. Therefore this standard strongly recommends that any variable whose units involve a temperature unit should also have a units_metadata attribute to make the distinction. It is strongly recommended to include the attribute units_metadata.
Change Date: 23 Feb 2024, 3:55 p.m.
Term: freezing_temperature_of_sea_water
Unit: K
Unit ref: UPKA
AMIP:
GRIB:
It is strongly recommended that a variable with this standard name should have a units_metadata attribute, with one of the values "on-scale" or "difference", whichever is appropriate for the data, because it is essential to know whether the temperature is on-scale (meaning relative to the origin of the scale indicated by the units) or refers to temperature differences (implying that the origin of the temperature scale is irrevelant), in order to convert the units correctly (cf. https://cfconventions.org/cf-conventions/cf-conventions.html#temperature-units).