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Controlled vocabulary of instruments as part of NCAS Data Activity

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New instrument request #10

Open willdrysdale opened 3 months ago

willdrysdale commented 3 months ago

Instrument Manufacturer

AERIS

Instrument Model

Ultra_CO_N2O

Instrument Serial Number

100861

Instrument Scientist Name

Katie Read

Instrument Scientist ORCID

0000-0002-4044-455X

Instrument Owner (and ROR ID)

National Centre for Atmospheric Science (https://ror.org/01wwwe276)

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NCAS Observatory

CVAO

Instrument description

AERIS CO and N2O Mid IR absorption analyser.

Manufacturer website here.

Note the manufacturer doesn't seem to differentiate their range of "Ultra" instruments with any obvious model number, so I've appended CO, N2O here.

Suggested instrument name: ncas-co-aeris-1

github-actions[bot] commented 3 months ago

Thank you for submitting a request for a new instrument. The following need to be decided through discussion:

[ ] NCAS instrument ID.
[ ] Instrument descriptor.
[ ] Data product(s).
[ ] Instrument category.
[ ] Host institution.
[ ] List of previous instrument IDs (if any).

joshua-hampton commented 3 months ago

Hi @willdrysdale, Graham and I had a chat about this yesterday, couple of points on the instrument name:

we're looking follow the general structure of ncas-<type-of-instrument>-<point-of-interest>-X for new instrument names going forward. Presumably in this case <point-of-interest> is co
we also don't want to use instrument manufacturer/model info in the instrument name, and would prefer something that describes the general type of instrument (examples include radar, lidar, ceilometer e.t.c.). Have you any suggestions for what would be suitable for this instrument along those lines?

willdrysdale commented 3 months ago

I think point-of-interest being co is fine.

re: <type-of-instrument> this is a little harder. My instinct is to go with aeris-co as this clearly differentiates it from picarro-co and matches how we refer to the instruments in real life. It also fits more broadly with the rest of the instrument names that already exist at CVAO.

If you are looking for something more general, then ncas-gas_analyser-co but that seems verbose without gaining more information, or you could go for ncas-mid_ir-co , which would differentiate from the picarro (which would be ncas-crds-co in that scheme, not that I am advocating a name change).

ncas-aeris-co strikes me as the best middle ground to be semantically consistent with the existing data.