Easy Access To Units

List of the units references.

Easy access to list of units:

(1) UNIDATA (UCAR)

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/udunits/udunits.txt

(2) EPIC (NOAA, PMEL)

ftp://www.epic.noaa.gov/epic/epic.key

(3) MODIS OCEAN:

http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/MODIS/ocean/index.shtml

(4) The US Joint Global Ocean Flux Study

http://usjgofs.whoi.edu/datasys/param_master.html#Org  

(5) U.S. GLOBEC Data Thesaurus

http://globec.whoi.edu/globec-dir/thesaurus.html

(4) UCAR , Climate and Global Dynamics (CGD), Climate Forecast (CF)

http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cms/eaton/cf-metadata/standard_name.html

Standard names arranged by category

Each of these categories includes a selection of standard names (matched by regular expressions). The categories may overlap and do not necessarily between them cover all the standard names.

Atmosphere dynamics

Carbon cycle

Cloud

Hydrology

Ocean dynamics

Radiation

Sea ice

Surface

(5) World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/WDM/Guides/Guide-binary-2.html

TABLE 2. PARAMETERS & UNITS

(6) Not so direct access to units:

http://sweet.jpl.nasa.gov/ontology

Posted May 27th, 2005 by graybeal