Change units and description for number fraction of dust aerosol in GLOMAP/UKCA #114
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mo-hlawrence
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climbfuji,
dustinswales,
gold2718,
grantfirl,
mattldawson,
mkavulich,
mwaxmonsky,
nusbaume,
peverwhee,
ss421 and
svahl991
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@jeromebarre I don't seem to have permission to add you as reviewer myself. Please could you check if this change is ok for you? |
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This makes kind of a strange long names but at least it's now clear what those variables are.
I know - if you prefer I can change the description back to what it was since other variables tend to have much shorter names. |
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Just making sure I understand correctly: these quantities are a ratio of the number of aerosol particles to the number of air molecules in a given volume? If that's correct, I would suggest that as a more clear "long_name" description. |
Yes I think that's right. I've been told it's "the ratio of the particle number concentration to the molecular concentration of air." |
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@mo-hlawrence Can I suggest this addition for clarification in the long name field? Since this is for description/human-readability purposes and won't appear in source code, there shouldn't be any technical issue with large entries here.
| <standard_name name="number_fraction_of_coarse_aerosol_particles_in_air" | ||
| long_name="Number fraction of coarse mode dust aerosol particles"> | ||
| <type kind="kind_phys" units="1">real</type> | ||
| long_name="Ratio of number concentration of coarse mode dust aerosol particles to the molecular concentration of air"> |
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| long_name="Ratio of number concentration of coarse mode dust aerosol particles to the molecular concentration of air"> | |
| long_name="Ratio of number concentration of coarse-mode dust aerosol particles to the molecular concentration of air; i.e., the ratio of the number of coarse-mode dust aerosol particles to the number of air molecules in a unit volume"> |
| <standard_name name="number_fraction_of_accumulation_aerosol_particles_in_air" | ||
| long_name="Number fraction of accumulation mode dust aerosol particles"> | ||
| <type kind="kind_phys" units="1">real</type> | ||
| long_name="Ratio of number concentration of accumulation mode dust aerosol particles to the molecular concentration of air"> |
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| long_name="Ratio of number concentration of accumulation mode dust aerosol particles to the molecular concentration of air"> | |
| long_name="Ratio of number concentration of accumulation-mode dust aerosol particles to the molecular concentration of air; i.e., the ratio of the number of accumulation-mode dust aerosol particles to the number of air molecules in a unit volume"> |
| * `number_fraction_of_coarse_aerosol_particles_in_air`: Ratio of number concentration of coarse mode dust aerosol particles to the molecular concentration of air | ||
| * `real(kind=kind_phys)`: units = particles molecules-1 | ||
| * `number_fraction_of_accumulation_aerosol_particles_in_air`: Ratio of number concentration of accumulation mode dust aerosol particles to the molecular concentration of air |
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| * `number_fraction_of_coarse_aerosol_particles_in_air`: Ratio of number concentration of coarse mode dust aerosol particles to the molecular concentration of air | |
| * `real(kind=kind_phys)`: units = particles molecules-1 | |
| * `number_fraction_of_accumulation_aerosol_particles_in_air`: Ratio of number concentration of accumulation mode dust aerosol particles to the molecular concentration of air | |
| * `number_fraction_of_coarse_aerosol_particles_in_air`: Ratio of number concentration of coarse-mode dust aerosol particles to the molecular concentration of air; i.e., the ratio of the number of coarse-mode dust aerosol particles to the number of air molecules in a unit volume | |
| * `real(kind=kind_phys)`: units = particles molecules-1 | |
| * `number_fraction_of_accumulation_aerosol_particles_in_air`: Ratio of number concentration of accumulation-mode dust aerosol particles to the molecular concentration of air; i.e., the ratio of the number of accumulation-mode dust aerosol particles to the number of air molecules in a unit volume |
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@mo-hlawrence Just checking on the status of this. If you're opposed to the suggested changes I wouldn't say they're required, but I'd be interested to hear the reasoning. |
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Since we still haven't heard from @mo-hlawrence, I will go ahead and merge this PR and open a new PR including the requested |
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In response to a comment on PR#111, this is to update the units for the number fraction variables for GLOMAP dust. The units are changed to particles molecules-1 since the variable describes the number of particles of dust per number of molecules of air. I've also updated the description of the variables to make it more precise - following the documentation from GLOMAP/UKCA.