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Standard names: soil water: liquid water content #174

Closed taylor13 closed 8 months ago

taylor13 commented 11 months ago

Karl E. Taylor 14 November 2023

Currently for soil water we have for column integrated amounts:

mass_content_of_water_in_soil soil_frozen_water_content

For soil layer content we have:

mass_content_of_water_of_soil_layer frozen_water_content_of_soil_layer liquid_water_content_of_soil_layer

For CMIP we need the missing column total amount of liquid water, so I propose:

soil_liquid_water_content.

github-actions[bot] commented 11 months ago

Thank you for your proposal. These terms will be added to the cfeditor (http://cfeditor.ceda.ac.uk/proposals/1) shortly. Your proposal will then be reviewed and commented on by the community and Standard Names moderator.

JonathanGregory commented 11 months ago

I agree that this proposal is consistent with the existing standard names. Thanks, @taylor13

efisher008 commented 11 months ago

Hello @taylor13,

Thank you for the proposal, and thanks @JonathanGregory for the comment. I have added the name to the editor, and given that it is consistent with existing standard names as Jonathan says, the name will be accepted in the next 7 days unless there are any further comments on the issue.

For reference, the suggested phrases which I have added to the definition are the following: "_Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "soil content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface down to the bottom of the soil model. For the content between specified levels in the soil, standard names including "content_of_soillayer" are used." If there are any issues with this content please let me know. I've also given the units as kg m-2 (in keeping with the units of the existing standard name examples you gave), which I hope is correct.

Best regards, Ellie

taylor13 commented 11 months ago

Thanks. Looks all good.

efisher008 commented 11 months ago

Hello @taylor13,

The time period mentioned above has now passed and so this name has been accepted. Thanks again for the proposal!

Best regards, Ellie

efisher008 commented 8 months ago

This issue has been closed as the above names were published in version 84 of the standard names table (visible here).