StandardNamingUnitsReferences

Units references used in Standard Naming exercise

Standard Naming Exercise

Units References

Easy access to list of units:

  1. NIST SI Units Home Page

    1. SI base units and derived quantities

    2. Reference: The International System of Units (SI) in Oceanography; Unesco technical papers in marine science 45; IAPSO Publication Scientifique No. 32, Unesco 1985

  3. udunits UNIDATA (UCAR)

  4. EPIC (NOAA, PMEL)

  5. The US Joint Global Ocean Flux Study

  6. U.S. GLOBEC Data Thesaurus

  7. UCAR , Climate and Global Dynamics (CGD), Climate Forecast (CF) 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.

    1. Atmosphere dynamics

    2. Carbon cycle

    3. Cloud

    4. Hydrology

    5. Ocean dynamics

    6. Radiation

    7. Sea ice

    8. Surface

  9. World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Not so easy access to units:

  1. SWEET (JPL)

Posted June 7th, 2005 by graybeal