NOAA-GFDL / xwmt

Python package for water mass transformation analysis that leverages xarray functionality
https://xwmt.readthedocs.io/
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Naming conventions for `lambda`s #36

Open gmacgilchrist opened 1 year ago

gmacgilchrist commented 1 year ago

Presently, the lambda options are theta, salt, and sigma*. Sometimes the dimension name of the derived wmt (G) match this name (e.g. with sigma0) and sometimes they do not (e.g. with theta, the coordinate name is tos for swmt).

I think we should stick with easier and standard naming conventions, i.e. temperature and salinity; and that the dimension name in G should always match the specified lambda. Any disagreement? Should be an easy change.