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Aerosol model for NorESM
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Fix units in diagnostic fields #37

Open gold2718 opened 2 months ago

gold2718 commented 2 months ago

unitless is not commonly accepted as a valid unit description.

Update the addfld descriptions in oslo_aero_diagnostics to use more relevant descriptions (e.g., kg kg-1, ln(W W-1)).

oyvindseland commented 2 months ago

Is "dimensionless" better than "unitless" The meaning is the same. And yes, for aerosol optical depth it is the correct unit, see e.g https://darktarget.gsfc.nasa.gov/basic-definitions

gold2718 commented 2 months ago

The accepted unit for this type of unitless quantity is 1. See the relevant CF Convention fields (search for "optical").

oyvindseland commented 2 months ago

Yes you are correct. Sorry about the confusion