What standard name to use in the context of astronomic related meteorological stations

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Hi,

for an in-house project, in the context of astronomical observations, i am planing to follow as much as possible the CF standard names for:

• database column names
• internal coding
• JSON/Parquet files fields

We use specialized meteorological stations in the context of astronomy studies. And most of this stations have features to quickly close the astronomical instruments in case of rain / hail / lightning / to much wind / humidity...
(this things do not like water & wind).

For most of the standard name this is trivial (air_presure, air temperature, relative_humidity...) but there is some stuff for witch i need help.

Sky Temperature

As defined by ISO 9488 section 3.2.39.

'Sky temperature' is the common name used in the field, but i do feel than it may be the same thing as 'Brightness temperature'.

• can you confirm (or not) if it's indeed the same thing ?
• if it's the case, can it be a subject of an alias proposal ?

Electric Field

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_field

We measure this, because it can be used to anticipate storms , lightnings, heavy wind and rain.

• i did not find a corresponding name, is there one ?
• if not, is it subject to proposal ?

Boolean status (True / False)

We track things like "is it raining ?" or "is there a lightning impact?" without counting the quantity. One drop of water, or a lightning 100 Km away are enough to be "True" without measuring the exact quantity.

But i have difficulty to select the right name for this sort of discrete events, for example, for a nearby lightning impact, i am not sure if the correct name is it :

• lightning_strike
• lightning_strike_flag
• lightning_strike_status
• lightning_strike_status_flag
• something else ?
  The value can only be True or False or Null, and i would like to avoid to use and additional describing field.

(English is not my native language, and this probably the origin of my doubts for this point)

Thank you :-)