Standard Name Table Release - v90 (March 2025) and v91 (May 2025)

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Dear All,

The standard name table has been updated. The current version is now version 91, dated 14 May 2025. A KWIC index has also been created for v91. v90 was published on 18 March 2025, and a KWIC index also exists for this version.

Lucy Bricheno, Jenny Mecking, Charlotte Pascoe, Michio Kawamiya, Martin Vancoppenolle and Tomas Lovato have been added to the list of standard name contributors in v91.

The area type table has also been updated. The current version is now version 13, dated 20 March 2025.

All changes are listed below.

Best wishes,
Ellie

V90 standard name changes:

New names

a. cf-convention/vocabularies#232
integral_wrt_depth_of_sea_water_conservative_temperature_expressed_as_heat_content
integral_wrt_depth_of_sea_water_practical_salinity_expressed_as_salt_mass_content
integral_wrt_depth_of_sea_water_preformed_salinity_expressed_as_salt_mass_content
integral_wrt_depth_of_sea_water_absolute_salinity_expressed_as_salt_mass_content
Proposed by Baylor Fox-Kemper for use in CMIP7.

b. cf-convention/vocabularies#234
mass_flux_of_carbon_from_biomass_into_geological_storage
carbon_mass_content_of_geological_storage
Proposed by Charles Koven for use in CMIP7.

c. cf-convention/vocabularies#240
isotope_ratio_of_2H_to_1H_in_sea_water_excluding_solutes_and_solids
Proposed by Christian Stepanek for use in CMIP7.

d. cf-convention/vocabularies#247
mole_concentration_of_nanophytoplankton_expressed_as_carbon_in_sea_water
Proposed by Damaris Zurell for use in CMIP7.

e. cf-convention/vocabularies#248
tendency_of_eastward_wind_due_to_parameterized_physics
tendency_of_northward_wind_due_to_parameterized_physics
Proposed by James Anstey for use in SNAPSI, QUOCA and CMIP7.

New alias for existing name

cf-convention/vocabularies#232
22 aliases proposed by Baylor Fox-Kemper for use in CMIP7. See issue for more details.

V91 standard name changes:

New names

a. cf-convention/vocabularies#212
ocean_wet_mass_content_of_epipelagic_micronekton
ocean_wet_mass_content_of_lower_mesopelagic_micronekton
ocean_wet_mass_content_of_upper_mesopelagic_micronekton
ocean_wet_mass_content_of_migrant_lower_mesopelagic_micronekton
ocean_wet_mass_content_of_migrant_upper_mesopelagic_micronekton
ocean_wet_mass_content_of_highly_migrant_lower_mesopelagic_micronekton
Proposed by Aurore Biardeau for use in the Copernicus Marine Service/Data Store.

b. cf-convention/vocabularies#233
mole_concentration_of_particulate_organic_matter_expressed_as_carbon_in_sea_water
Proposed by Aurore Biardeau for use in the Copernicus Marine Service/Data Store.

c. cf-convention/vocabularies#239
red_component_of_toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_expressed_as_rgb_color
blue_component_of_toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_expressed_as_rgb_color
green_component_of_toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_expressed_as_rgb_color
x_component_of_unit_vector_away_from_instrument
y_component_of_unit_vector_away_from_instrument
upward_component_of_unit_vector_away_from_instrument
downward_component_of_unit_vector_away_from_instrument
x_component_of_surface_outward_normal_unit_vector
y_component_of_surface_outward_normal_unit_vector
upward_component_of_surface_outward_normal_unit_vector
downward_component_of_surface_outward_normal_unit_vector
Proposed by Luke Marsden for use in point clouds, DEMs and DTMs.

d. cf-convention/vocabularies#244
sea_floor_horizontal_stress
sea_floor_horizontal_stress_due_to_sea_surface_waves
sea_floor_horizontal_stress_due_to_model_sea_water_velocity
Proposed by Lucy Bricheno for use in NOC model outputs of seabed stress.

e. cf-convention/vocabularies#248
tendency_of_eastward_wind_due_to_model_physics
tendency_of_northward_wind_due_to_model_physics
Proposed by James Anstey for use in SNAPSI, QUOCA and CMIP7.

f. cf-convention/vocabularies#218
ocean_heat_transport_across_line
ocean_salt_mass_transport_across_line
Proposed by Jenny Mecking for use in CMIP7.

g. cf-convention/vocabularies#219
cell_x_length
cell_y_length
Proposed by Jenny Mecking for use in CMIP7.

h. cf-convention/vocabularies#245
tendency_of_mass_fraction_of_convective_cloud_ice_in_air_due_to_sublimation
tendency_of_mass_fraction_of_water_in_air_due_to_convective_detrainment
mass_fraction_of_water_in_soil_layer_defined_by_root_depth
tendency_of_mass_fraction_of_stratiform_cloud_ice_in_air_due_to_sublimation
magnitude_of_surface_friction_velocity_in_air
atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_cloud_liquid_water
atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_frozen_water_in_cloud
convective_liquid_precipitation_flux
stratiform_solid_precipitation_flux
convective_solid_precipitation_flux
stratiform_liquid_precipitation_flux
Proposed by Fiona O'Connor for use in AerChemMIP and CMIP7.

i. cf-convention/vocabularies#249
product_of_deviations_of_northward_wind_and_air_temperature_wrt_zonal_means
product_of_deviations_of_eastward_wind_and_northward_wind_wrt_zonal_means
product_of_deviations_of_eastward_wind_and_lagrangian_tendency_of_air_pressure_wrt_zonal_means
Proposed by James Anstey for use in QUOCA and CMIP7.

j. cf-convention/vocabularies#250
wet_bulb_globe_temperature
Proposed by Charlotte Pascoe on behalf of Alex Ruane for use in CMIP7.

k. cf-convention/vocabularies#251
carbon_mass_content_of_soil_layer
Proposed by Michio Kawamiya for use in CMIP7.

l. cf-convention/vocabularies#253
sea_ice_enthalpy_content
Proposed by Martin Vancoppenolle for use in CMIP7.

m. cf-convention/vocabularies#255
mole_concentration_of_diatoms_expressed_as_silicon_in_sea_water
mole_concentration_of_nanophytoplankton_expressed_as_carbon_in_sea_water
mole_concentration_of_nanophytoplankton_expressed_as_nitrogen_in_sea_water
mole_concentration_of_diatoms_expressed_as_phosphorus_in_sea_water
mole_concentration_of_calcareous_phytoplankton_expressed_as_nitrogen_in_sea_water
mole_concentration_of_calcareous_phytoplankton_expressed_as_phosphorus_in_sea_water
mole_concentration_of_diazotrophic_phytoplankton_expressed_as_nitrogen_in_sea_water
mole_concentration_of_diazotrophic_phytoplankton_expressed_as_phosphorus_in_sea_water
mole_concentration_of_nanophytoplankton_expressed_as_phosphorus_in_sea_water
mole_concentration_of_picophytoplankton_expressed_as_nitrogen_in_sea_water
mole_concentration_of_picophytoplankton_expressed_as_phosphorus_in_sea_water
mole_concentration_of_miscellaneous_phytoplankton_expressed_as_nitrogen_in_sea_water
mole_concentration_of_miscellaneous_phytoplankton_expressed_as_phosphorus_in_sea_water
Proposed by Tomas Lovato for use in CMIP7.

Correction to term description

a. cf-convention/vocabularies#254
sea_ice_area_fraction
Proposed by Thomas Lavergne to reduce ambiguity in the calculation of area fraction in the context of sea ice.

b. cf-convention/vocabularies#218
iceberg_transport_across_line
ocean_volume_transport_across_line
sea_ice_area_transport_across_line
sea_ice_transport_across_line
sea_water_transport_across_line
snow_transport_across_line_due_to_sea_ice_dynamics
Proposed by Jenny Mecking to clarify the use of positive and negative numbers in transport terms.

New alias for existing name

a. cf-convention/vocabularies#251
vegetation_carbon_content -> vegetation_mass_content_of_carbon

V12 area type changes

New terms

a. cf-convention/vocabularies#222
lake_and_inland_sea
Proposed by Christian Stepanek for use in CMIP7.