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<font face="Times New Roman">Dear </font>Michael and all,<br>
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I have received an question (see below) from Mark wondering if there
is a typo in the CMIP5 "aero" table. Here is the entry:<br>
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1 Wet Deposition Rate of SO4 kg m-2 s-1 wetso4
tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfate_expressed_as_sulfur_dry_aerosol_due_to_wet_deposition<br>
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I would note that the standard name above is an alias for <br>
tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_expressed_as_sulfur_due_to_wet_deposition<br>
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Anyway, just wanted you to confirm I hadn't transcribed anything
incorrectly. <br>
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Even if there is some "inconsistency" in units between wetso4 and
related variables, I think it is too late to change the CMIP5
specifications. But we might want to rethink what we request the
next time around.<br>
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best regards,<br>
Karl<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/13/12 8:14 PM, mark collier wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:6D20618E-DD7A-4413-855D-7B7E6C740BAE@csiro.au"
type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0,
128, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: small; ">We just
noticed that f</span><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size:
small; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color:
teal; font-size: 10pt; ">or the field wetso4 (Wet Deposition
Rate of SO4) in table aero, the requested units say
"tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfate_expressed_as_</span></span><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);
font-family: Arial; font-size: small; "><strong><span
style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: red;
font-size: 10pt; ">sulfur</span></strong></span><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);
font-family: Arial; font-size: small; "><span
style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: teal; font-size:
10pt; ">_dry_aerosol_due_to_wet_deposition". We wonder if that
was the intention, or if it is a typo, as every other variable
was requested in units of species (SO4, SO2 or DMS), not
sulfur. We overlooked that it says sulfur, so we provided data
in units of <font color="#ff0000"><strong>sulfate</strong></font>,
consistent with other related variables.</span></span>
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