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[Roy Lowry]

Dear Evengy,

Thank you for that.  There are indeed many similarities between your 'sphere' vocabulary and the 'vertical coverages' vocabulary that we have been discussing.  However, there are significant differences between the entity described by your vocabulary and the entity I am trying to describe.  As I see it, your 'sphere' is a much broader concept.  One term, 'Solar Physics', puzzles me as I do not understand how this can be regarded as a 'sphere'.

What I have done is to work through your vocabulary and look to see which I would consider vertical coverages and how they map to the terms we are discussing.

Depth layer in soil - sediment?
Hydrosphere - water column
Surface of sea - water column boundary layer
Depth layer in sea - water column?
Bottom layer in sea - benthic boundary layer
Atmosphere - atmosphere
Stratosphere - stratosphere
Stratopause - stratopause
Troposphere - troposphere
Tropopause - tropopause
Interaction atmosphere - hydrosphere - atmosphere boundary layer

There are a couple of terms that are obviously vertical coverages ('High atmopshere', 'Low atmosphere')  but I cannot map them because I don't have any definitions.  Are they what we are calling Homosphere and Heterosphere? You also have the term 'Ionosphere'.  After much consultation I decided not to include this as a 'vertical coverage' term as currently accepted opinion seems to regard the ionosphere as part of the thermosphere layer. 

Cheers, Roy.

>>> "Vjazilov E.D." <vjaz at meteo.ru> 11/1/2006 5:51 am >>>
Dear Roy,

We are using the library of spheres for parameters classification.

Sincerely,
 
Evgeny Vyazilov
Dr.Sc., Head of Lab. RIHMI-WDC
Prof. Cybernetic Department of Obninsk State University for Atomic Energy
6, Koroleva, Obninsk, Kaluga Reg. 249035. Russia 
E-mail: vjaz at meteo.ru 
I?Q: 245617092
Tel.: (48439) 74676
Fax: (495) 2552225
http://www.meteo.ru 
http://www.oceaninfo.ru 
http://copi.ru/31569 


      100
     Lithosphere 
     
      111
     Land Surface
     
      121
     Depth layer in soil
     
      200
     Hydrosphere
     
      211
     Surface of sea
     
      222
     Depth layer in sea (Oceans)
     
      223
     Bottom layer in sea
     
      300
     Cosmosphere
     
      310
     Solar Physics
     
      320
     Ionosphere
     
      400
     Atmosphere
     
      410
     Low atmosphere
     
      420
     High atmosphere
     
      430
     Stratosphere
     
      440
     Stratopause
     
      450
     Troposphere
     
      460
     Tropopause
     
      470
     Ionosphere
     
      500
     Interaction atmosphere - hydrosphere
     
      600
     Cryosphere
     
      700
     Biosphere
     
      800
     Sociosphere
     
      900
     Technosphere
     


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Roy Lowry 
  To: seavox at biwebs1-2.nerc-liv.ac.uk 
  Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 1:00 PM
  Subject: [Seavox] To business....


  Dear All,

  Please find attached a vocabulary developed from one of the EDIOS local vocabularies to provide terms for describing dataset vertical coverages in discovery metadata.  I would foresee these terms being used as ISO19115 keywords.  Please let me have any comments on content, terms or definitions.  I would also be interested if anyone knows of other vocabularies out there fulfilling this function so I can check them out for ease of interoperability.

  Cheers, Roy.






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