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Standard names: iceberg_transport_across_line #235

Open mankoff opened 2 hours ago

mankoff commented 2 hours ago

Proposer's name Ken Mankoff

Date 2024-11-07

iceberg_transport_across_line

Description: Transport across_line means that which crosses a particular line on the Earth's surface; formally this means the integral along the line of the normal component of the transport. "Iceberg" means all ice floating in the sea which has formed from freezing sea water, rather than by other processes such as calving of land ice to form icebergs.

Units: kg s-1

From: https://github.com/orgs/cf-convention/discussions/388 except that upon further reflection of that discussion, I believe that land_ice_transport_across_line and land_ice_transport_across_grounding_line are not needed due to tendency_of_land_ice_mass.

Furthermore, the original request was for icebergs at their calving location, which I now find is handled by tendency_of_land_ice_mass_due_to_calving. Therefore, the above new name is not needed by me. It may be useful to others for icebergs crossing some arbitrary line in the ocean - that is, a term similar to sea_ice_transport_across_line.

github-actions[bot] commented 2 hours 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.