Precipitation Driver Response Model Intercomparison Project data sets 2013-2021
Data output from the Precipitation Driver Response Model Intercomparison Project (PDRMIP). A set of 6 core experiments (a base, co2x2, ch4x3, solar, bcx10, sulx5 where the solar experiment has increased incoming solar radiation), 5 regional experiments (bcx10asia, sulx10asia, sulx10eur, sulred, sulasiared) and 7 phase 2 experiments (base2, cfc12, cfc11, n2o1p, ozone, lndus, bcslt) have been run by one or more of the participating models; CanESM2, MPI-ESM, NorESM1, NCAR-CESM1-CAM4, NCAR-CESM1-CAM5, MIROC-SPRINTARS, HadGEM2, HadGEM3, GISS-E2-R, IPSL-CM5A, ECHAM-HAM. Each of the experiments has been run (for the most part) both in coupled and fixed sst ocean setups. Time designations varry from model to model, however, all models have ran the coupled ocean experiments for 100 years and 15 years in the fixed sst experiments. Outputs varry between models, but include 2D and 3D monthly variables, 2D daily variables and fixed 2D fields.
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Identification
Data identification
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- Date (Publication)
- 2021-10-06
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- Citation identifier
- PDRMIP_2012-2021
- Citation identifier
- doi:10.26050/WDCC/PDRMIP_2012-2021
http://icmc.ipsl.fr/
http://www.cccma.ec.gc.ca
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CESM1-CAM4
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CESM1-CAM5
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CanESM2
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ECHAM-HAM
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GISS-E2-R
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HADGEM2
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HadGEM3
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CC-BY-SA-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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eng; USA
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- 0011-01-01
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- 2249-12-31
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- https://www.wdc-climate.de/ui/entry?acronym=PDRMIP_2012-2021
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Content
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
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A phrase assuming_condition indicates that the named quantity is the value which would obtain if all aspects of the system were unaltered except for the assumption of the circumstances specified by the condition. "longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
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relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol_particles
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Ambient Aerosol Optical Thickness at 440nm
Comment: AOD from the ambient aerosols (i.e., includes aerosol water). Does not include AOD from stratospheric aerosols if these are prescribed but includes other possible background aerosol types. Needs a comment attribute 'wavelength: 440nm'
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- lagrangian_tendency_of_air_pressure
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"tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. The Lagrangian tendency of a quantity is its rate of change following the motion of the fluid, also called the "material derivative" or "convective derivative". The Lagrangian tendency of air pressure, often called "omega", plays the role of the upward component of air velocity when air pressure is being used as the vertical coordinate. If the vertical air velocity is upwards, it is negative when expressed as a tendency of air pressure; downwards is positive.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
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In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfur_dioxide_due_to_emission
- Descriptor
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"tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. "Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. "Emission" means emission from a primary source located anywhere within the atmosphere, including at the lower boundary (i.e. earth's surface). 'Emission' is a process entirely distinct from "re-emission" which is used in some standard names. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- wind_speed
- Descriptor
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Speed is the magnitude of velocity. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) The wind speed is the magnitude of the wind velocity.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- snowfall_flux
- Descriptor
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In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_elemental_carbon_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
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Load of Black Carbon Aerosol
Comment: The total dry mass of black carbon aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_cloud_condensed_water
- Descriptor
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alias: atmosphere_cloud_condensed_water_content
"condensed_water" means liquid and ice. "Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including content_of_atmosphere_layer are used. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
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The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "longwave" means longwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_concentration_of_black_carbon_dry_aerosol_in_air
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Surface Concentration of Black Carbon Aerosol [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-3
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
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"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_sea_water_velocity
- Descriptor
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A velocity is a vector quantity. "Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_incoming_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
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"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA incoming shortwave flux is the radiative flux from the sun i.e. the "downwelling" TOA shortwave flux. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfur_dioxide_due_to_emission
- Descriptor
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"tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. "Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. "Emission" means emission from a primary source located anywhere within the atmosphere, including at the lower boundary (i.e. earth's surface). 'Emission' is a process entirely distinct from "re-emission" which is used in some standard names. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor
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atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
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"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_elemental_carbon_dry_aerosol_particles_due_to_emission
- Descriptor
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Total Emission Rate of Black Carbon Aerosol Mass
Comment: Integrate 3D emission field vertically to 2d field.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
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"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_latent_heat_flux
- Descriptor
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The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface latent heat flux is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air on account of evaporation (including sublimation). In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux
- Descriptor
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"longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- snowfall_flux
- Descriptor
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In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_cloud_condensed_water
- Descriptor
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alias: atmosphere_cloud_condensed_water_content
"condensed_water" means liquid and ice. "Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including content_of_atmosphere_layer are used. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
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The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "longwave" means longwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_liquid_water_in_air
- Descriptor
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Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
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In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- snowfall_flux
- Descriptor
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In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
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Load of SO4
Comment: The total dry mass of sulfate aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday; Table Emon, provided in frequency(s): day; mon, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor
- Descriptor
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atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- geopotential_height
- Descriptor
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Geopotential is the sum of the specific gravitational potential energy relative to the geoid and the specific centripetal potential energy. Geopotential height is the geopotential divided by the standard acceleration due to gravity. It is numerically similar to the altitude (or geometric height) and not to the quantity with standard name height, which is relative to the surface. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_concentration_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_in_air
- Descriptor
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Concentration of SO4 [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-3
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_cloud_condensed_water
- Descriptor
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alias: atmosphere_cloud_condensed_water_content
"condensed_water" means liquid and ice. "Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including content_of_atmosphere_layer are used. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
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Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_liquid_water_in_air
- Descriptor
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Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_elemental_carbon_dry_aerosol_particles_due_to_emission
- Descriptor
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Total Emission Rate of Black Carbon Aerosol Mass
Comment: Integrate 3D emission field vertically to 2d field.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_elemental_carbon_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
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Load of Black Carbon Aerosol
Comment: The total dry mass of black carbon aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
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Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_latent_heat_flux
- Descriptor
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The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface latent heat flux is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air on account of evaporation (including sublimation). In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
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"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- water_evapotranspiration_flux
- Descriptor
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Snow Evaporation
Comment: Water here means water in all phases. Evaporation is the conversion of liquid or solid into vapor. (The conversion of solid alone into vapor is called 'sublimation'.) In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, 'flux' implies per unit area, called 'flux density' in physics. Unless indicated in the cell_methods attribute, a quantity is assumed to apply to the whole area of each horizontal grid box. Previously, the qualifier where_type was used to specify that the quantity applies only to the part of the grid box of the named type. Names containing the where_type qualifier are deprecated and newly created data should use the cell_methods attribute to indicate the horizontal area to which the quantity applies.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- wind_speed-atNearSurface
- Descriptor
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wind_speed-atNearSurface [CF-Standard Name-vertical_coordinate]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature-at2m (maximum per 24h)
- Descriptor
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air_temperature-at2m (maximum per day) [CF-Standard Name-vertical_coordinate cell_method:time]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
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Ambient Aerosol Optical Thickness at 440nm
Comment: AOD from the ambient aerosols (i.e., includes aerosol water). Does not include AOD from stratospheric aerosols if these are prescribed but includes other possible background aerosol types. Needs a comment attribute 'wavelength: 440nm'
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_incoming_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
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"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA incoming shortwave flux is the radiative flux from the sun i.e. the "downwelling" TOA shortwave flux. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- water_evapotranspiration_flux
- Descriptor
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Snow Evaporation
Comment: Water here means water in all phases. Evaporation is the conversion of liquid or solid into vapor. (The conversion of solid alone into vapor is called 'sublimation'.) In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, 'flux' implies per unit area, called 'flux density' in physics. Unless indicated in the cell_methods attribute, a quantity is assumed to apply to the whole area of each horizontal grid box. Previously, the qualifier where_type was used to specify that the quantity applies only to the part of the grid box of the named type. Names containing the where_type qualifier are deprecated and newly created data should use the cell_methods attribute to indicate the horizontal area to which the quantity applies.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- volume_extinction_coefficient_in_air_due_to_ambient_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
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Aerosol Extinction Coefficient
Comment: Aerosol Extinction at 550nm
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table 6hrLev; Table Emon, provided in frequency(s): 6hrPt; mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol; atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
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The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "shortwave" means shortwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- geopotential_height
- Descriptor
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Geopotential is the sum of the specific gravitational potential energy relative to the geoid and the specific centripetal potential energy. Geopotential height is the geopotential divided by the standard acceleration due to gravity. It is numerically similar to the altitude (or geometric height) and not to the quantity with standard name height, which is relative to the surface. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
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"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
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Load of SO4
Comment: The total dry mass of sulfate aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday; Table Emon, provided in frequency(s): day; mon, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_concentration_of_black_carbon_dry_aerosol_in_air
- Descriptor
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Surface Concentration of Black Carbon Aerosol [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-3
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_liquid_water_in_air
- Descriptor
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Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convection_time_fraction
- Descriptor
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convection_time_fraction [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- wind_speed
- Descriptor
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Speed is the magnitude of velocity. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) The wind speed is the magnitude of the wind velocity.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
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surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_liquid_water_in_air
- Descriptor
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Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer
- Descriptor
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"Layer" means any layer with upper and lower boundaries that have constant values in some vertical coordinate. There must be a vertical coordinate variable indicating the extent of the layer(s). If the layers are model layers, the vertical coordinate can be model_level_number, but it is recommended to specify a physical coordinate (in a scalar or auxiliary coordinate variable) as well. "X_area_fraction" means the fraction ofhorizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- water_evapotranspiration_flux
- Descriptor
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Snow Evaporation
Comment: Water here means water in all phases. Evaporation is the conversion of liquid or solid into vapor. (The conversion of solid alone into vapor is called 'sublimation'.) In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, 'flux' implies per unit area, called 'flux density' in physics. Unless indicated in the cell_methods attribute, a quantity is assumed to apply to the whole area of each horizontal grid box. Previously, the qualifier where_type was used to specify that the quantity applies only to the part of the grid box of the named type. Names containing the where_type qualifier are deprecated and newly created data should use the cell_methods attribute to indicate the horizontal area to which the quantity applies.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_concentration_of_black_carbon_dry_aerosol_in_air
- Descriptor
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Surface Concentration of Black Carbon Aerosol [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-3
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_sensible_heat_flux
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface sensible heat flux, also called "turbulent" heat flux, is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air by motion of air. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "shortwave" means shortwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- geopotential_height
- Descriptor
-
Geopotential is the sum of the specific gravitational potential energy relative to the geoid and the specific centripetal potential energy. Geopotential height is the geopotential divided by the standard acceleration due to gravity. It is numerically similar to the altitude (or geometric height) and not to the quantity with standard name height, which is relative to the surface. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "shortwave" means shortwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction
- Descriptor
-
"X_area_fraction" means the fraction of horizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". The cloud area fraction is for the whole atmosphere column, as seen from the surface or the top of the atmosphere. The cloud area fraction in a layer of the atmosphere has the standard name cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_sensible_heat_flux
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface sensible heat flux, also called "turbulent" heat flux, is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air by motion of air. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_cloud_condensed_water
- Descriptor
-
alias: atmosphere_cloud_condensed_water_content
"condensed_water" means liquid and ice. "Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including content_of_atmosphere_layer are used. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor
- Descriptor
-
atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Load of SO4
Comment: The total dry mass of sulfate aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday; Table Emon, provided in frequency(s): day; mon, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_ice_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer
- Descriptor
-
"Layer" means any layer with upper and lower boundaries that have constant values in some vertical coordinate. There must be a vertical coordinate variable indicating the extent of the layer(s). If the layers are model layers, the vertical coordinate can be model_level_number, but it is recommended to specify a physical coordinate (in a scalar or auxiliary coordinate variable) as well. "X_area_fraction" means the fraction ofhorizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- water_evapotranspiration_flux
- Descriptor
-
Snow Evaporation
Comment: Water here means water in all phases. Evaporation is the conversion of liquid or solid into vapor. (The conversion of solid alone into vapor is called 'sublimation'.) In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, 'flux' implies per unit area, called 'flux density' in physics. Unless indicated in the cell_methods attribute, a quantity is assumed to apply to the whole area of each horizontal grid box. Previously, the qualifier where_type was used to specify that the quantity applies only to the part of the grid box of the named type. Names containing the where_type qualifier are deprecated and newly created data should use the cell_methods attribute to indicate the horizontal area to which the quantity applies.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_cloud_condensed_water
- Descriptor
-
alias: atmosphere_cloud_condensed_water_content
"condensed_water" means liquid and ice. "Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including content_of_atmosphere_layer are used. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convection_time_fraction
- Descriptor
-
convection_time_fraction [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_temperature
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. The surface temperature is the (skin) temperature at the interface, not the bulk temperature of the medium above or below. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
A phrase assuming_condition indicates that the named quantity is the value which would obtain if all aspects of the system were unaltered except for the assumption of the circumstances specified by the condition. "longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- geopotential_height
- Descriptor
-
Geopotential is the sum of the specific gravitational potential energy relative to the geoid and the specific centripetal potential energy. Geopotential height is the geopotential divided by the standard acceleration due to gravity. It is numerically similar to the altitude (or geometric height) and not to the quantity with standard name height, which is relative to the surface. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- snowfall_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- net_downward_radiative_flux_at_top_of_atmosphere_model
- Descriptor
-
Net Downward Flux at Top of Model [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_elemental_carbon_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Load of Black Carbon Aerosol
Comment: The total dry mass of black carbon aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_temperature
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. The surface temperature is the (skin) temperature at the interface, not the bulk temperature of the medium above or below. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction
- Descriptor
-
"X_area_fraction" means the fraction of horizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". The cloud area fraction is for the whole atmosphere column, as seen from the surface or the top of the atmosphere. The cloud area fraction in a layer of the atmosphere has the standard name cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_net_upward_convective_mass_flux
- Descriptor
-
atmosphere_net_upward_convective_mass_flux [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_sensible_heat_flux
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface sensible heat flux, also called "turbulent" heat flux, is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air by motion of air. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_elemental_carbon_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Load of Black Carbon Aerosol
Comment: The total dry mass of black carbon aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_net_upward_convective_mass_flux
- Descriptor
-
atmosphere_net_upward_convective_mass_flux [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_pressure_at_convective_cloud_base
- Descriptor
-
air_pressure_at_convective_cloud_base [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_liquid_water_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- net_downward_radiative_flux_at_top_of_atmosphere_model
- Descriptor
-
Net Downward Flux at Top of Model [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downward_northward_stress
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). "Downward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed downward (negative upward). "Downward northward" indicates the ZY component of a tensor. A downward northward stress is a downward flux of northward momentum, which accelerates the lower medium northward and the upper medium southward. The surface downward stress is the windstress on the surface. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_temperature
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. The surface temperature is the (skin) temperature at the interface, not the bulk temperature of the medium above or below. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_pressure_at_mean_sea_level
- Descriptor
-
Air pressure at sea level is the quantity often abbreviated as MSLP or PMSL. Air pressure is the force per unit area which would be exerted when the moving gas molecules of which the air is composed strike a theoretical surface of any orientation. "Mean sea level" means the time mean of sea surface elevation at a given location over an arbitrary period sufficient to eliminate the tidal signals. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_liquid_water_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- lagrangian_tendency_of_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
"tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. The Lagrangian tendency of a quantity is its rate of change following the motion of the fluid, also called the "material derivative" or "convective derivative". The Lagrangian tendency of air pressure, often called "omega", plays the role of the upward component of air velocity when air pressure is being used as the vertical coordinate. If the vertical air velocity is upwards, it is negative when expressed as a tendency of air pressure; downwards is positive.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- net_downward_radiative_flux_at_top_of_atmosphere_model
- Descriptor
-
Net Downward Flux at Top of Model [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_sensible_heat_flux
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface sensible heat flux, also called "turbulent" heat flux, is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air by motion of air. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "shortwave" means shortwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Load of SO4
Comment: The total dry mass of sulfate aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday; Table Emon, provided in frequency(s): day; mon, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "shortwave" means shortwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Load of SO4
Comment: The total dry mass of sulfate aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday; Table Emon, provided in frequency(s): day; mon, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing shortwave flux is the reflected and scattered solar radiative flux i.e. the "upwelling" TOA shortwave flux, sometimes called the "outgoing shortwave radiation" or "OSR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor
- Descriptor
-
atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer
- Descriptor
-
"Layer" means any layer with upper and lower boundaries that have constant values in some vertical coordinate. There must be a vertical coordinate variable indicating the extent of the layer(s). If the layers are model layers, the vertical coordinate can be model_level_number, but it is recommended to specify a physical coordinate (in a scalar or auxiliary coordinate variable) as well. "X_area_fraction" means the fraction ofhorizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity-at2m
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity-at2m [CF-Standard Name-vertical_coordinate]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "shortwave" means shortwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Ambient Aerosol Optical Thickness at 440nm
Comment: AOD from the ambient aerosols (i.e., includes aerosol water). Does not include AOD from stratospheric aerosols if these are prescribed but includes other possible background aerosol types. Needs a comment attribute 'wavelength: 440nm'
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- snowfall_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- water_evapotranspiration_flux
- Descriptor
-
Snow Evaporation
Comment: Water here means water in all phases. Evaporation is the conversion of liquid or solid into vapor. (The conversion of solid alone into vapor is called 'sublimation'.) In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, 'flux' implies per unit area, called 'flux density' in physics. Unless indicated in the cell_methods attribute, a quantity is assumed to apply to the whole area of each horizontal grid box. Previously, the qualifier where_type was used to specify that the quantity applies only to the part of the grid box of the named type. Names containing the where_type qualifier are deprecated and newly created data should use the cell_methods attribute to indicate the horizontal area to which the quantity applies.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convection_time_fraction
- Descriptor
-
convection_time_fraction [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_pressure_at_mean_sea_level
- Descriptor
-
Air pressure at sea level is the quantity often abbreviated as MSLP or PMSL. Air pressure is the force per unit area which would be exerted when the moving gas molecules of which the air is composed strike a theoretical surface of any orientation. "Mean sea level" means the time mean of sea surface elevation at a given location over an arbitrary period sufficient to eliminate the tidal signals. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- shallow_convection_time_fraction
- Descriptor
-
shallow_convection_time_fraction [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- snowfall_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_ice_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_ice_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_pressure_at_mean_sea_level
- Descriptor
-
Air pressure at sea level is the quantity often abbreviated as MSLP or PMSL. Air pressure is the force per unit area which would be exerted when the moving gas molecules of which the air is composed strike a theoretical surface of any orientation. "Mean sea level" means the time mean of sea surface elevation at a given location over an arbitrary period sufficient to eliminate the tidal signals. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer
- Descriptor
-
"Layer" means any layer with upper and lower boundaries that have constant values in some vertical coordinate. There must be a vertical coordinate variable indicating the extent of the layer(s). If the layers are model layers, the vertical coordinate can be model_level_number, but it is recommended to specify a physical coordinate (in a scalar or auxiliary coordinate variable) as well. "X_area_fraction" means the fraction ofhorizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- water_evapotranspiration_flux
- Descriptor
-
Snow Evaporation
Comment: Water here means water in all phases. Evaporation is the conversion of liquid or solid into vapor. (The conversion of solid alone into vapor is called 'sublimation'.) In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, 'flux' implies per unit area, called 'flux density' in physics. Unless indicated in the cell_methods attribute, a quantity is assumed to apply to the whole area of each horizontal grid box. Previously, the qualifier where_type was used to specify that the quantity applies only to the part of the grid box of the named type. Names containing the where_type qualifier are deprecated and newly created data should use the cell_methods attribute to indicate the horizontal area to which the quantity applies.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_incoming_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA incoming shortwave flux is the radiative flux from the sun i.e. the "downwelling" TOA shortwave flux. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- shallow_convection_time_fraction
- Descriptor
-
shallow_convection_time_fraction [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convection_time_fraction
- Descriptor
-
convection_time_fraction [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Ambient Aerosol Optical Thickness at 440nm
Comment: AOD from the ambient aerosols (i.e., includes aerosol water). Does not include AOD from stratospheric aerosols if these are prescribed but includes other possible background aerosol types. Needs a comment attribute 'wavelength: 440nm'
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity-at2m
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity-at2m [CF-Standard Name-vertical_coordinate]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor
- Descriptor
-
atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
A phrase assuming_condition indicates that the named quantity is the value which would obtain if all aspects of the system were unaltered except for the assumption of the circumstances specified by the condition. "longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "shortwave" means shortwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_liquid_water_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_snow_thickness
- Descriptor
-
surface_snow_thickness [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer
- Descriptor
-
"Layer" means any layer with upper and lower boundaries that have constant values in some vertical coordinate. There must be a vertical coordinate variable indicating the extent of the layer(s). If the layers are model layers, the vertical coordinate can be model_level_number, but it is recommended to specify a physical coordinate (in a scalar or auxiliary coordinate variable) as well. "X_area_fraction" means the fraction ofhorizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_incoming_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA incoming shortwave flux is the radiative flux from the sun i.e. the "downwelling" TOA shortwave flux. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_concentration_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Concentration of SO4 [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-3
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
A phrase assuming_condition indicates that the named quantity is the value which would obtain if all aspects of the system were unaltered except for the assumption of the circumstances specified by the condition. "longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "shortwave" means shortwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_absorption_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Ambient Aerosol Absorption Optical Thickness at 550nm
Comment: Optical thickness of atmospheric aerosols at wavelength 550 nanometers.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_liquid_water_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- snowfall_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- wind_speed
- Descriptor
-
Speed is the magnitude of velocity. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) The wind speed is the magnitude of the wind velocity.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_sensible_heat_flux
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface sensible heat flux, also called "turbulent" heat flux, is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air by motion of air. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- snowfall_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- shallow_convection_time_fraction
- Descriptor
-
shallow_convection_time_fraction [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer
- Descriptor
-
"Layer" means any layer with upper and lower boundaries that have constant values in some vertical coordinate. There must be a vertical coordinate variable indicating the extent of the layer(s). If the layers are model layers, the vertical coordinate can be model_level_number, but it is recommended to specify a physical coordinate (in a scalar or auxiliary coordinate variable) as well. "X_area_fraction" means the fraction ofhorizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
A phrase assuming_condition indicates that the named quantity is the value which would obtain if all aspects of the system were unaltered except for the assumption of the circumstances specified by the condition. "longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing shortwave flux is the reflected and scattered solar radiative flux i.e. the "upwelling" TOA shortwave flux, sometimes called the "outgoing shortwave radiation" or "OSR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- land_area_fraction
- Descriptor
-
"X_area_fraction" means the fraction of horizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_altitude
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. Altitude is the (geometric) height above the geoid, which is the reference geopotential surface. The geoid is similar to mean sea level.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity-at2m
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity-at2m [CF-Standard Name-vertical_coordinate]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction
- Descriptor
-
"X_area_fraction" means the fraction of horizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". The cloud area fraction is for the whole atmosphere column, as seen from the surface or the top of the atmosphere. The cloud area fraction in a layer of the atmosphere has the standard name cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity-at2m
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity-at2m [CF-Standard Name-vertical_coordinate]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing shortwave flux is the reflected and scattered solar radiative flux i.e. the "upwelling" TOA shortwave flux, sometimes called the "outgoing shortwave radiation" or "OSR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_sensible_heat_flux
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface sensible heat flux, also called "turbulent" heat flux, is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air by motion of air. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
A phrase assuming_condition indicates that the named quantity is the value which would obtain if all aspects of the system were unaltered except for the assumption of the circumstances specified by the condition. "longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "shortwave" means shortwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- volume_extinction_coefficient_in_air_due_to_ambient_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Aerosol Extinction Coefficient
Comment: Aerosol Extinction at 550nm
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table 6hrLev; Table Emon, provided in frequency(s): 6hrPt; mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol; atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_sea_water_velocity
- Descriptor
-
A velocity is a vector quantity. "Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward) [CF-Standard Name].; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction
- Descriptor
-
"X_area_fraction" means the fraction of horizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". The cloud area fraction is for the whole atmosphere column, as seen from the surface or the top of the atmosphere. The cloud area fraction in a layer of the atmosphere has the standard name cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- wind_speed
- Descriptor
-
Speed is the magnitude of velocity. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) The wind speed is the magnitude of the wind velocity.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- snowfall_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing shortwave flux is the reflected and scattered solar radiative flux i.e. the "upwelling" TOA shortwave flux, sometimes called the "outgoing shortwave radiation" or "OSR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_elemental_carbon_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Load of Black Carbon Aerosol
Comment: The total dry mass of black carbon aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_concentration_of_black_carbon_dry_aerosol_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Surface Concentration of Black Carbon Aerosol [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-3
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- net_downward_radiative_flux_at_top_of_atmosphere_model
- Descriptor
-
Net Downward Flux at Top of Model [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "longwave" means longwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_particles_due_to_emission
- Descriptor
-
Total Direct Emission Rate of SO4
Comment: Direct primary emission does not include secondary sulfate production. Integrate 3D emission field vertically to 2d field.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- land_area_fraction
- Descriptor
-
"X_area_fraction" means the fraction of horizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_pressure_at_mean_sea_level
- Descriptor
-
Air pressure at sea level is the quantity often abbreviated as MSLP or PMSL. Air pressure is the force per unit area which would be exerted when the moving gas molecules of which the air is composed strike a theoretical surface of any orientation. "Mean sea level" means the time mean of sea surface elevation at a given location over an arbitrary period sufficient to eliminate the tidal signals. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_incoming_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA incoming shortwave flux is the radiative flux from the sun i.e. the "downwelling" TOA shortwave flux. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- wind_speed
- Descriptor
-
Speed is the magnitude of velocity. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) The wind speed is the magnitude of the wind velocity.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_pressure_at_mean_sea_level
- Descriptor
-
Air pressure at sea level is the quantity often abbreviated as MSLP or PMSL. Air pressure is the force per unit area which would be exerted when the moving gas molecules of which the air is composed strike a theoretical surface of any orientation. "Mean sea level" means the time mean of sea surface elevation at a given location over an arbitrary period sufficient to eliminate the tidal signals. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convection_time_fraction
- Descriptor
-
convection_time_fraction [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_liquid_water_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_elemental_carbon_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Load of Black Carbon Aerosol
Comment: The total dry mass of black carbon aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_latent_heat_flux
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface latent heat flux is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air on account of evaporation (including sublimation). In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_elemental_carbon_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Load of Black Carbon Aerosol
Comment: The total dry mass of black carbon aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "longwave" means longwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- water_evapotranspiration_flux
- Descriptor
-
Snow Evaporation
Comment: Water here means water in all phases. Evaporation is the conversion of liquid or solid into vapor. (The conversion of solid alone into vapor is called 'sublimation'.) In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, 'flux' implies per unit area, called 'flux density' in physics. Unless indicated in the cell_methods attribute, a quantity is assumed to apply to the whole area of each horizontal grid box. Previously, the qualifier where_type was used to specify that the quantity applies only to the part of the grid box of the named type. Names containing the where_type qualifier are deprecated and newly created data should use the cell_methods attribute to indicate the horizontal area to which the quantity applies.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- net_downward_radiative_flux_at_top_of_atmosphere_model
- Descriptor
-
Net Downward Flux at Top of Model [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- ocean_heat_y_transport
- Descriptor
-
Ocean Heat Y Transport [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- sea_surface_salinity
- Descriptor
-
The unit of salinity is PSU, which is dimensionless. The units attribute should be given as 1e-3 or 0.001 i.e. parts per thousand if salinity is in PSU. Sea surface salinity is often abbreviated as "SSS". For the salinity of sea water at a particular depth or layer, a data variable of sea_water_salinity with a vertical coordinate axis should be used. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.001
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- ocean_heat_x_transport_due_to_diffusion
- Descriptor
-
Ocean Heat X Transport due to Diffusion [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- lagrangian_tendency_of_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
"tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. The Lagrangian tendency of a quantity is its rate of change following the motion of the fluid, also called the "material derivative" or "convective derivative". The Lagrangian tendency of air pressure, often called "omega", plays the role of the upward component of air velocity when air pressure is being used as the vertical coordinate. If the vertical air velocity is upwards, it is negative when expressed as a tendency of air pressure; downwards is positive.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- geopotential_height
- Descriptor
-
Geopotential is the sum of the specific gravitational potential energy relative to the geoid and the specific centripetal potential energy. Geopotential height is the geopotential divided by the standard acceleration due to gravity. It is numerically similar to the altitude (or geometric height) and not to the quantity with standard name height, which is relative to the surface. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_sensible_heat_flux
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface sensible heat flux, also called "turbulent" heat flux, is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air by motion of air. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor
- Descriptor
-
atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "longwave" means longwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- wind_speed
- Descriptor
-
Speed is the magnitude of velocity. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) The wind speed is the magnitude of the wind velocity.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_ice_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- wind_speed
- Descriptor
-
Speed is the magnitude of velocity. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) The wind speed is the magnitude of the wind velocity.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_latent_heat_flux
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface latent heat flux is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air on account of evaporation (including sublimation). In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- shallow_convection_time_fraction
- Descriptor
-
shallow_convection_time_fraction [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_sensible_heat_flux
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface sensible heat flux, also called "turbulent" heat flux, is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air by motion of air. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "shortwave" means shortwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- snowfall_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_incoming_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA incoming shortwave flux is the radiative flux from the sun i.e. the "downwelling" TOA shortwave flux. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- net_downward_radiative_flux_at_top_of_atmosphere_model
- Descriptor
-
Net Downward Flux at Top of Model [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downward_northward_stress
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). "Downward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed downward (negative upward). "Downward northward" indicates the ZY component of a tensor. A downward northward stress is a downward flux of northward momentum, which accelerates the lower medium northward and the upper medium southward. The surface downward stress is the windstress on the surface. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction
- Descriptor
-
"X_area_fraction" means the fraction of horizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". The cloud area fraction is for the whole atmosphere column, as seen from the surface or the top of the atmosphere. The cloud area fraction in a layer of the atmosphere has the standard name cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer
- Descriptor
-
"Layer" means any layer with upper and lower boundaries that have constant values in some vertical coordinate. There must be a vertical coordinate variable indicating the extent of the layer(s). If the layers are model layers, the vertical coordinate can be model_level_number, but it is recommended to specify a physical coordinate (in a scalar or auxiliary coordinate variable) as well. "X_area_fraction" means the fraction ofhorizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "shortwave" means shortwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_incoming_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA incoming shortwave flux is the radiative flux from the sun i.e. the "downwelling" TOA shortwave flux. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- geopotential_height
- Descriptor
-
Geopotential is the sum of the specific gravitational potential energy relative to the geoid and the specific centripetal potential energy. Geopotential height is the geopotential divided by the standard acceleration due to gravity. It is numerically similar to the altitude (or geometric height) and not to the quantity with standard name height, which is relative to the surface. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- shallow_convection_time_fraction
- Descriptor
-
shallow_convection_time_fraction [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Load of SO4
Comment: The total dry mass of sulfate aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday; Table Emon, provided in frequency(s): day; mon, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_ice_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer
- Descriptor
-
"Layer" means any layer with upper and lower boundaries that have constant values in some vertical coordinate. There must be a vertical coordinate variable indicating the extent of the layer(s). If the layers are model layers, the vertical coordinate can be model_level_number, but it is recommended to specify a physical coordinate (in a scalar or auxiliary coordinate variable) as well. "X_area_fraction" means the fraction ofhorizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_temperature
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. The surface temperature is the (skin) temperature at the interface, not the bulk temperature of the medium above or below. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_pressure_at_convective_cloud_top
- Descriptor
-
air_pressure_at_convective_cloud_top [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_concentration_of_black_carbon_dry_aerosol_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Surface Concentration of Black Carbon Aerosol [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-3
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_cloud_ice
- Descriptor
-
Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including content_of_atmosphere_layer are used. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing shortwave flux is the reflected and scattered solar radiative flux i.e. the "upwelling" TOA shortwave flux, sometimes called the "outgoing shortwave radiation" or "OSR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_incoming_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA incoming shortwave flux is the radiative flux from the sun i.e. the "downwelling" TOA shortwave flux. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "longwave" means longwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- snowfall_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer
- Descriptor
-
"Layer" means any layer with upper and lower boundaries that have constant values in some vertical coordinate. There must be a vertical coordinate variable indicating the extent of the layer(s). If the layers are model layers, the vertical coordinate can be model_level_number, but it is recommended to specify a physical coordinate (in a scalar or auxiliary coordinate variable) as well. "X_area_fraction" means the fraction ofhorizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_sensible_heat_flux
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface sensible heat flux, also called "turbulent" heat flux, is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air by motion of air. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Load of SO4
Comment: The total dry mass of sulfate aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday; Table Emon, provided in frequency(s): day; mon, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_ice_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_temperature
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. The surface temperature is the (skin) temperature at the interface, not the bulk temperature of the medium above or below. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "shortwave" means shortwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_pressure_at_mean_sea_level
- Descriptor
-
Air pressure at sea level is the quantity often abbreviated as MSLP or PMSL. Air pressure is the force per unit area which would be exerted when the moving gas molecules of which the air is composed strike a theoretical surface of any orientation. "Mean sea level" means the time mean of sea surface elevation at a given location over an arbitrary period sufficient to eliminate the tidal signals. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- snowfall_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_cloud_condensed_water
- Descriptor
-
alias: atmosphere_cloud_condensed_water_content
"condensed_water" means liquid and ice. "Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including content_of_atmosphere_layer are used. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
A phrase assuming_condition indicates that the named quantity is the value which would obtain if all aspects of the system were unaltered except for the assumption of the circumstances specified by the condition. "longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer
- Descriptor
-
"Layer" means any layer with upper and lower boundaries that have constant values in some vertical coordinate. There must be a vertical coordinate variable indicating the extent of the layer(s). If the layers are model layers, the vertical coordinate can be model_level_number, but it is recommended to specify a physical coordinate (in a scalar or auxiliary coordinate variable) as well. "X_area_fraction" means the fraction ofhorizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing shortwave flux is the reflected and scattered solar radiative flux i.e. the "upwelling" TOA shortwave flux, sometimes called the "outgoing shortwave radiation" or "OSR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_elemental_carbon_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Load of Black Carbon Aerosol
Comment: The total dry mass of black carbon aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- water_evapotranspiration_flux
- Descriptor
-
Snow Evaporation
Comment: Water here means water in all phases. Evaporation is the conversion of liquid or solid into vapor. (The conversion of solid alone into vapor is called 'sublimation'.) In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, 'flux' implies per unit area, called 'flux density' in physics. Unless indicated in the cell_methods attribute, a quantity is assumed to apply to the whole area of each horizontal grid box. Previously, the qualifier where_type was used to specify that the quantity applies only to the part of the grid box of the named type. Names containing the where_type qualifier are deprecated and newly created data should use the cell_methods attribute to indicate the horizontal area to which the quantity applies.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing shortwave flux is the reflected and scattered solar radiative flux i.e. the "upwelling" TOA shortwave flux, sometimes called the "outgoing shortwave radiation" or "OSR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_particles_due_to_emission
- Descriptor
-
Total Direct Emission Rate of SO4
Comment: Direct primary emission does not include secondary sulfate production. Integrate 3D emission field vertically to 2d field.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
A phrase assuming_condition indicates that the named quantity is the value which would obtain if all aspects of the system were unaltered except for the assumption of the circumstances specified by the condition. "longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "shortwave" means shortwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_sensible_heat_flux
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface sensible heat flux, also called "turbulent" heat flux, is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air by motion of air. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_elemental_carbon_dry_aerosol_particles_due_to_emission
- Descriptor
-
Total Emission Rate of Black Carbon Aerosol Mass
Comment: Integrate 3D emission field vertically to 2d field.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_elemental_carbon_dry_aerosol_particles_due_to_emission
- Descriptor
-
Total Emission Rate of Black Carbon Aerosol Mass
Comment: Integrate 3D emission field vertically to 2d field.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_sensible_heat_flux
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface sensible heat flux, also called "turbulent" heat flux, is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air by motion of air. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- wind_speed
- Descriptor
-
Speed is the magnitude of velocity. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) The wind speed is the magnitude of the wind velocity.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "shortwave" means shortwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- volume_extinction_coefficient_in_air_due_to_ambient_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Aerosol Extinction Coefficient
Comment: Aerosol Extinction at 550nm
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table 6hrLev; Table Emon, provided in frequency(s): 6hrPt; mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol; atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_particles_due_to_emission
- Descriptor
-
Total Direct Emission Rate of SO4
Comment: Direct primary emission does not include secondary sulfate production. Integrate 3D emission field vertically to 2d field.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing shortwave flux is the reflected and scattered solar radiative flux i.e. the "upwelling" TOA shortwave flux, sometimes called the "outgoing shortwave radiation" or "OSR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "shortwave" means shortwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer
- Descriptor
-
"Layer" means any layer with upper and lower boundaries that have constant values in some vertical coordinate. There must be a vertical coordinate variable indicating the extent of the layer(s). If the layers are model layers, the vertical coordinate can be model_level_number, but it is recommended to specify a physical coordinate (in a scalar or auxiliary coordinate variable) as well. "X_area_fraction" means the fraction ofhorizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_ice_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer
- Descriptor
-
"Layer" means any layer with upper and lower boundaries that have constant values in some vertical coordinate. There must be a vertical coordinate variable indicating the extent of the layer(s). If the layers are model layers, the vertical coordinate can be model_level_number, but it is recommended to specify a physical coordinate (in a scalar or auxiliary coordinate variable) as well. "X_area_fraction" means the fraction ofhorizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "longwave" means longwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- net_downward_radiative_flux_at_top_of_atmosphere_model
- Descriptor
-
Net Downward Flux at Top of Model [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_incoming_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA incoming shortwave flux is the radiative flux from the sun i.e. the "downwelling" TOA shortwave flux. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- water_evapotranspiration_flux
- Descriptor
-
Snow Evaporation
Comment: Water here means water in all phases. Evaporation is the conversion of liquid or solid into vapor. (The conversion of solid alone into vapor is called 'sublimation'.) In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, 'flux' implies per unit area, called 'flux density' in physics. Unless indicated in the cell_methods attribute, a quantity is assumed to apply to the whole area of each horizontal grid box. Previously, the qualifier where_type was used to specify that the quantity applies only to the part of the grid box of the named type. Names containing the where_type qualifier are deprecated and newly created data should use the cell_methods attribute to indicate the horizontal area to which the quantity applies.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
A phrase assuming_condition indicates that the named quantity is the value which would obtain if all aspects of the system were unaltered except for the assumption of the circumstances specified by the condition. "longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor_due_to_sublimation_of_surface_snow_and_ice
- Descriptor
-
Surface Snow and Ice Sublimation Flux
Comment: The snow and ice sublimation flux is the loss of snow and ice mass per unit area from the surface resulting from their direct conversion to water vapor that enters the atmosphere.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Amon; Table CF3hr; Table CFsubhr; Table Eday; Table ImonAnt; Table ImonGre; Table LImon, provided in frequency(s): 3hrPt; day; mon; subhrPt, and for Realm(s): atmos; atmosChem; land; landIce.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- geopotential_height
- Descriptor
-
Geopotential is the sum of the specific gravitational potential energy relative to the geoid and the specific centripetal potential energy. Geopotential height is the geopotential divided by the standard acceleration due to gravity. It is numerically similar to the altitude (or geometric height) and not to the quantity with standard name height, which is relative to the surface. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- wind_speed
- Descriptor
-
Speed is the magnitude of velocity. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) The wind speed is the magnitude of the wind velocity.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "shortwave" means shortwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_liquid_water_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- lagrangian_tendency_of_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
"tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. The Lagrangian tendency of a quantity is its rate of change following the motion of the fluid, also called the "material derivative" or "convective derivative". The Lagrangian tendency of air pressure, often called "omega", plays the role of the upward component of air velocity when air pressure is being used as the vertical coordinate. If the vertical air velocity is upwards, it is negative when expressed as a tendency of air pressure; downwards is positive.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_cloud_condensed_water
- Descriptor
-
alias: atmosphere_cloud_condensed_water_content
"condensed_water" means liquid and ice. "Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including content_of_atmosphere_layer are used. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer
- Descriptor
-
"Layer" means any layer with upper and lower boundaries that have constant values in some vertical coordinate. There must be a vertical coordinate variable indicating the extent of the layer(s). If the layers are model layers, the vertical coordinate can be model_level_number, but it is recommended to specify a physical coordinate (in a scalar or auxiliary coordinate variable) as well. "X_area_fraction" means the fraction ofhorizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- shallow_convection_time_fraction
- Descriptor
-
shallow_convection_time_fraction [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- lagrangian_tendency_of_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
"tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. The Lagrangian tendency of a quantity is its rate of change following the motion of the fluid, also called the "material derivative" or "convective derivative". The Lagrangian tendency of air pressure, often called "omega", plays the role of the upward component of air velocity when air pressure is being used as the vertical coordinate. If the vertical air velocity is upwards, it is negative when expressed as a tendency of air pressure; downwards is positive.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Load of SO4
Comment: The total dry mass of sulfate aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday; Table Emon, provided in frequency(s): day; mon, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity-at2m
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity-at2m [CF-Standard Name-vertical_coordinate]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
A phrase assuming_condition indicates that the named quantity is the value which would obtain if all aspects of the system were unaltered except for the assumption of the circumstances specified by the condition. "longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Ambient Aerosol Optical Thickness at 440nm
Comment: AOD from the ambient aerosols (i.e., includes aerosol water). Does not include AOD from stratospheric aerosols if these are prescribed but includes other possible background aerosol types. Needs a comment attribute 'wavelength: 440nm'
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- lagrangian_tendency_of_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
"tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. The Lagrangian tendency of a quantity is its rate of change following the motion of the fluid, also called the "material derivative" or "convective derivative". The Lagrangian tendency of air pressure, often called "omega", plays the role of the upward component of air velocity when air pressure is being used as the vertical coordinate. If the vertical air velocity is upwards, it is negative when expressed as a tendency of air pressure; downwards is positive.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_elemental_carbon_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Load of Black Carbon Aerosol
Comment: The total dry mass of black carbon aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- wind_speed
- Descriptor
-
Speed is the magnitude of velocity. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) The wind speed is the magnitude of the wind velocity.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_latent_heat_flux
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface latent heat flux is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air on account of evaporation (including sublimation). In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_ice_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_liquid_water_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Ambient Aerosol Optical Thickness at 440nm
Comment: AOD from the ambient aerosols (i.e., includes aerosol water). Does not include AOD from stratospheric aerosols if these are prescribed but includes other possible background aerosol types. Needs a comment attribute 'wavelength: 440nm'
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- lagrangian_tendency_of_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
"tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. The Lagrangian tendency of a quantity is its rate of change following the motion of the fluid, also called the "material derivative" or "convective derivative". The Lagrangian tendency of air pressure, often called "omega", plays the role of the upward component of air velocity when air pressure is being used as the vertical coordinate. If the vertical air velocity is upwards, it is negative when expressed as a tendency of air pressure; downwards is positive.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_absorption_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Ambient Aerosol Absorption Optical Thickness at 550nm
Comment: Optical thickness of atmospheric aerosols at wavelength 550 nanometers.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer
- Descriptor
-
"Layer" means any layer with upper and lower boundaries that have constant values in some vertical coordinate. There must be a vertical coordinate variable indicating the extent of the layer(s). If the layers are model layers, the vertical coordinate can be model_level_number, but it is recommended to specify a physical coordinate (in a scalar or auxiliary coordinate variable) as well. "X_area_fraction" means the fraction ofhorizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_ice_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor
- Descriptor
-
atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_incoming_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA incoming shortwave flux is the radiative flux from the sun i.e. the "downwelling" TOA shortwave flux. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "shortwave" means shortwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "longwave" means longwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_cloud_ice
- Descriptor
-
Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including content_of_atmosphere_layer are used. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- geopotential_height
- Descriptor
-
Geopotential is the sum of the specific gravitational potential energy relative to the geoid and the specific centripetal potential energy. Geopotential height is the geopotential divided by the standard acceleration due to gravity. It is numerically similar to the altitude (or geometric height) and not to the quantity with standard name height, which is relative to the surface. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convection_time_fraction
- Descriptor
-
convection_time_fraction [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- wind_speed
- Descriptor
-
Speed is the magnitude of velocity. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) The wind speed is the magnitude of the wind velocity.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_concentration_of_black_carbon_dry_aerosol_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Surface Concentration of Black Carbon Aerosol [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-3
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_concentration_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Concentration of SO4 [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-3
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "shortwave" means shortwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- wind_speed
- Descriptor
-
Speed is the magnitude of velocity. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) The wind speed is the magnitude of the wind velocity.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- snowfall_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "longwave" means longwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_elemental_carbon_dry_aerosol_particles_due_to_emission
- Descriptor
-
Total Emission Rate of Black Carbon Aerosol Mass
Comment: Integrate 3D emission field vertically to 2d field.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_elemental_carbon_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Load of Black Carbon Aerosol
Comment: The total dry mass of black carbon aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_cloud_ice
- Descriptor
-
Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including content_of_atmosphere_layer are used. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_concentration_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Concentration of SO4 [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-3
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_latent_heat_flux
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface latent heat flux is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air on account of evaporation (including sublimation). In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_elemental_carbon_dry_aerosol_particles_due_to_emission
- Descriptor
-
Total Emission Rate of Black Carbon Aerosol Mass
Comment: Integrate 3D emission field vertically to 2d field.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- sea_surface_salinity
- Descriptor
-
The unit of salinity is PSU, which is dimensionless. The units attribute should be given as 1e-3 or 0.001 i.e. parts per thousand if salinity is in PSU. Sea surface salinity is often abbreviated as "SSS". For the salinity of sea water at a particular depth or layer, a data variable of sea_water_salinity with a vertical coordinate axis should be used. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.001
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "shortwave" means shortwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
A phrase assuming_condition indicates that the named quantity is the value which would obtain if all aspects of the system were unaltered except for the assumption of the circumstances specified by the condition. "longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfur_dioxide_due_to_emission
- Descriptor
-
"tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. "Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. "Emission" means emission from a primary source located anywhere within the atmosphere, including at the lower boundary (i.e. earth's surface). 'Emission' is a process entirely distinct from "re-emission" which is used in some standard names. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_particles_due_to_emission
- Descriptor
-
Total Direct Emission Rate of SO4
Comment: Direct primary emission does not include secondary sulfate production. Integrate 3D emission field vertically to 2d field.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- region
- Descriptor
-
Region Selection Index [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_incoming_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA incoming shortwave flux is the radiative flux from the sun i.e. the "downwelling" TOA shortwave flux. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity-at2m
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity-at2m [CF-Standard Name-vertical_coordinate]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- soil_moisture_content_at_field_capacity
- Descriptor
-
"moisture" means water in all phases contained in soil. "Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "soil content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface down to the bottom of the soil model. For the content between specified levels in the soil, standard names including content_of_soil_layer are used. The field capacity of soil is the maximum content of water it can retain against gravitational drainage. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cell_area
- Descriptor
-
Model Grid-Cell Area [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- wind_speed
- Descriptor
-
Speed is the magnitude of velocity. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) The wind speed is the magnitude of the wind velocity.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- lagrangian_tendency_of_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
"tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. The Lagrangian tendency of a quantity is its rate of change following the motion of the fluid, also called the "material derivative" or "convective derivative". The Lagrangian tendency of air pressure, often called "omega", plays the role of the upward component of air velocity when air pressure is being used as the vertical coordinate. If the vertical air velocity is upwards, it is negative when expressed as a tendency of air pressure; downwards is positive.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_ice_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing shortwave flux is the reflected and scattered solar radiative flux i.e. the "upwelling" TOA shortwave flux, sometimes called the "outgoing shortwave radiation" or "OSR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction
- Descriptor
-
"X_area_fraction" means the fraction of horizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". The cloud area fraction is for the whole atmosphere column, as seen from the surface or the top of the atmosphere. The cloud area fraction in a layer of the atmosphere has the standard name cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_ice_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_snow_area_fraction
- Descriptor
-
surface_snow_area_fraction [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction
- Descriptor
-
"X_area_fraction" means the fraction of horizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". The cloud area fraction is for the whole atmosphere column, as seen from the surface or the top of the atmosphere. The cloud area fraction in a layer of the atmosphere has the standard name cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- lagrangian_tendency_of_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
"tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. The Lagrangian tendency of a quantity is its rate of change following the motion of the fluid, also called the "material derivative" or "convective derivative". The Lagrangian tendency of air pressure, often called "omega", plays the role of the upward component of air velocity when air pressure is being used as the vertical coordinate. If the vertical air velocity is upwards, it is negative when expressed as a tendency of air pressure; downwards is positive.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer
- Descriptor
-
"Layer" means any layer with upper and lower boundaries that have constant values in some vertical coordinate. There must be a vertical coordinate variable indicating the extent of the layer(s). If the layers are model layers, the vertical coordinate can be model_level_number, but it is recommended to specify a physical coordinate (in a scalar or auxiliary coordinate variable) as well. "X_area_fraction" means the fraction ofhorizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_pressure_at_mean_sea_level
- Descriptor
-
Air pressure at sea level is the quantity often abbreviated as MSLP or PMSL. Air pressure is the force per unit area which would be exerted when the moving gas molecules of which the air is composed strike a theoretical surface of any orientation. "Mean sea level" means the time mean of sea surface elevation at a given location over an arbitrary period sufficient to eliminate the tidal signals. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_elemental_carbon_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Load of Black Carbon Aerosol
Comment: The total dry mass of black carbon aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "longwave" means longwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor
- Descriptor
-
atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- water_evapotranspiration_flux
- Descriptor
-
Snow Evaporation
Comment: Water here means water in all phases. Evaporation is the conversion of liquid or solid into vapor. (The conversion of solid alone into vapor is called 'sublimation'.) In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, 'flux' implies per unit area, called 'flux density' in physics. Unless indicated in the cell_methods attribute, a quantity is assumed to apply to the whole area of each horizontal grid box. Previously, the qualifier where_type was used to specify that the quantity applies only to the part of the grid box of the named type. Names containing the where_type qualifier are deprecated and newly created data should use the cell_methods attribute to indicate the horizontal area to which the quantity applies.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- wind_speed
- Descriptor
-
Speed is the magnitude of velocity. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) The wind speed is the magnitude of the wind velocity.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
A phrase assuming_condition indicates that the named quantity is the value which would obtain if all aspects of the system were unaltered except for the assumption of the circumstances specified by the condition. "longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "shortwave" means shortwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "longwave" means longwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_temperature
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. The surface temperature is the (skin) temperature at the interface, not the bulk temperature of the medium above or below. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- snowfall_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- volume_extinction_coefficient_in_air_due_to_ambient_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Aerosol Extinction Coefficient
Comment: Aerosol Extinction at 550nm
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table 6hrLev; Table Emon, provided in frequency(s): 6hrPt; mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol; atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- wind_speed
- Descriptor
-
Speed is the magnitude of velocity. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) The wind speed is the magnitude of the wind velocity.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- net_downward_radiative_flux_at_top_of_atmosphere_model
- Descriptor
-
Net Downward Flux at Top of Model [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_cloud_condensed_water
- Descriptor
-
alias: atmosphere_cloud_condensed_water_content
"condensed_water" means liquid and ice. "Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including content_of_atmosphere_layer are used. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- sea_ice_area_fraction
- Descriptor
-
sea_ice_area_fraction [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- geopotential_height
- Descriptor
-
Geopotential is the sum of the specific gravitational potential energy relative to the geoid and the specific centripetal potential energy. Geopotential height is the geopotential divided by the standard acceleration due to gravity. It is numerically similar to the altitude (or geometric height) and not to the quantity with standard name height, which is relative to the surface. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "longwave" means longwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- water_evapotranspiration_flux
- Descriptor
-
Snow Evaporation
Comment: Water here means water in all phases. Evaporation is the conversion of liquid or solid into vapor. (The conversion of solid alone into vapor is called 'sublimation'.) In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, 'flux' implies per unit area, called 'flux density' in physics. Unless indicated in the cell_methods attribute, a quantity is assumed to apply to the whole area of each horizontal grid box. Previously, the qualifier where_type was used to specify that the quantity applies only to the part of the grid box of the named type. Names containing the where_type qualifier are deprecated and newly created data should use the cell_methods attribute to indicate the horizontal area to which the quantity applies.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer
- Descriptor
-
"Layer" means any layer with upper and lower boundaries that have constant values in some vertical coordinate. There must be a vertical coordinate variable indicating the extent of the layer(s). If the layers are model layers, the vertical coordinate can be model_level_number, but it is recommended to specify a physical coordinate (in a scalar or auxiliary coordinate variable) as well. "X_area_fraction" means the fraction ofhorizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_elemental_carbon_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Load of Black Carbon Aerosol
Comment: The total dry mass of black carbon aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_absorption_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Ambient Aerosol Absorption Optical Thickness at 550nm
Comment: Optical thickness of atmospheric aerosols at wavelength 550 nanometers.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- shallow_convection_time_fraction
- Descriptor
-
shallow_convection_time_fraction [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_cloud_condensed_water
- Descriptor
-
alias: atmosphere_cloud_condensed_water_content
"condensed_water" means liquid and ice. "Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including content_of_atmosphere_layer are used. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing shortwave flux is the reflected and scattered solar radiative flux i.e. the "upwelling" TOA shortwave flux, sometimes called the "outgoing shortwave radiation" or "OSR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_cloud_condensed_water
- Descriptor
-
alias: atmosphere_cloud_condensed_water_content
"condensed_water" means liquid and ice. "Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including content_of_atmosphere_layer are used. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- geopotential_height
- Descriptor
-
Geopotential is the sum of the specific gravitational potential energy relative to the geoid and the specific centripetal potential energy. Geopotential height is the geopotential divided by the standard acceleration due to gravity. It is numerically similar to the altitude (or geometric height) and not to the quantity with standard name height, which is relative to the surface. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "shortwave" means shortwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Load of SO4
Comment: The total dry mass of sulfate aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday; Table Emon, provided in frequency(s): day; mon, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- water_evapotranspiration_flux
- Descriptor
-
Snow Evaporation
Comment: Water here means water in all phases. Evaporation is the conversion of liquid or solid into vapor. (The conversion of solid alone into vapor is called 'sublimation'.) In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, 'flux' implies per unit area, called 'flux density' in physics. Unless indicated in the cell_methods attribute, a quantity is assumed to apply to the whole area of each horizontal grid box. Previously, the qualifier where_type was used to specify that the quantity applies only to the part of the grid box of the named type. Names containing the where_type qualifier are deprecated and newly created data should use the cell_methods attribute to indicate the horizontal area to which the quantity applies.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_cloud_condensed_water
- Descriptor
-
alias: atmosphere_cloud_condensed_water_content
"condensed_water" means liquid and ice. "Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including content_of_atmosphere_layer are used. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_liquid_water_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convection_time_fraction
- Descriptor
-
convection_time_fraction [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing shortwave flux is the reflected and scattered solar radiative flux i.e. the "upwelling" TOA shortwave flux, sometimes called the "outgoing shortwave radiation" or "OSR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity-at2m
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity-at2m [CF-Standard Name-vertical_coordinate]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- wind_speed
- Descriptor
-
Speed is the magnitude of velocity. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) The wind speed is the magnitude of the wind velocity.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_elemental_carbon_dry_aerosol_particles_due_to_emission
- Descriptor
-
Total Emission Rate of Black Carbon Aerosol Mass
Comment: Integrate 3D emission field vertically to 2d field.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_ice_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfur_dioxide_due_to_emission
- Descriptor
-
"tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. "Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. "Emission" means emission from a primary source located anywhere within the atmosphere, including at the lower boundary (i.e. earth's surface). 'Emission' is a process entirely distinct from "re-emission" which is used in some standard names. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "longwave" means longwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor
- Descriptor
-
atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_elemental_carbon_dry_aerosol_particles_due_to_emission
- Descriptor
-
Total Emission Rate of Black Carbon Aerosol Mass
Comment: Integrate 3D emission field vertically to 2d field.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_elemental_carbon_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Load of Black Carbon Aerosol
Comment: The total dry mass of black carbon aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_latent_heat_flux
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface latent heat flux is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air on account of evaporation (including sublimation). In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "longwave" means longwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_ice_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_pressure_at_mean_sea_level
- Descriptor
-
Air pressure at sea level is the quantity often abbreviated as MSLP or PMSL. Air pressure is the force per unit area which would be exerted when the moving gas molecules of which the air is composed strike a theoretical surface of any orientation. "Mean sea level" means the time mean of sea surface elevation at a given location over an arbitrary period sufficient to eliminate the tidal signals. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_elemental_carbon_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Load of Black Carbon Aerosol
Comment: The total dry mass of black carbon aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_latent_heat_flux
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface latent heat flux is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air on account of evaporation (including sublimation). In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- wind_speed
- Descriptor
-
Speed is the magnitude of velocity. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) The wind speed is the magnitude of the wind velocity.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor
- Descriptor
-
atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_concentration_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Concentration of SO4 [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-3
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- net_downward_radiative_flux_at_top_of_atmosphere_model
- Descriptor
-
Net Downward Flux at Top of Model [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_absorption_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Ambient Aerosol Absorption Optical Thickness at 550nm
Comment: Optical thickness of atmospheric aerosols at wavelength 550 nanometers.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_elemental_carbon_dry_aerosol_particles_due_to_emission
- Descriptor
-
Total Emission Rate of Black Carbon Aerosol Mass
Comment: Integrate 3D emission field vertically to 2d field.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing shortwave flux is the reflected and scattered solar radiative flux i.e. the "upwelling" TOA shortwave flux, sometimes called the "outgoing shortwave radiation" or "OSR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_cloud_condensed_water
- Descriptor
-
alias: atmosphere_cloud_condensed_water_content
"condensed_water" means liquid and ice. "Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including content_of_atmosphere_layer are used. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- shallow_convection_time_fraction
- Descriptor
-
shallow_convection_time_fraction [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "shortwave" means shortwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_concentration_of_black_carbon_dry_aerosol_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Surface Concentration of Black Carbon Aerosol [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-3
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing shortwave flux is the reflected and scattered solar radiative flux i.e. the "upwelling" TOA shortwave flux, sometimes called the "outgoing shortwave radiation" or "OSR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_cloud_ice
- Descriptor
-
Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including content_of_atmosphere_layer are used. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor
- Descriptor
-
atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_liquid_water_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- net_downward_radiative_flux_at_top_of_atmosphere_model
- Descriptor
-
Net Downward Flux at Top of Model [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_cloud_ice
- Descriptor
-
Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including content_of_atmosphere_layer are used. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "shortwave" means shortwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_cloud_ice
- Descriptor
-
Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including content_of_atmosphere_layer are used. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Ambient Aerosol Optical Thickness at 440nm
Comment: AOD from the ambient aerosols (i.e., includes aerosol water). Does not include AOD from stratospheric aerosols if these are prescribed but includes other possible background aerosol types. Needs a comment attribute 'wavelength: 440nm'
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- wind_speed
- Descriptor
-
Speed is the magnitude of velocity. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) The wind speed is the magnitude of the wind velocity.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_sensible_heat_flux
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface sensible heat flux, also called "turbulent" heat flux, is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air by motion of air. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_ice_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- volume_extinction_coefficient_in_air_due_to_ambient_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Aerosol Extinction Coefficient
Comment: Aerosol Extinction at 550nm
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table 6hrLev; Table Emon, provided in frequency(s): 6hrPt; mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol; atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_sensible_heat_flux
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface sensible heat flux, also called "turbulent" heat flux, is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air by motion of air. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "longwave" means longwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_particles_due_to_emission
- Descriptor
-
Total Direct Emission Rate of SO4
Comment: Direct primary emission does not include secondary sulfate production. Integrate 3D emission field vertically to 2d field.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- wind_speed
- Descriptor
-
Speed is the magnitude of velocity. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) The wind speed is the magnitude of the wind velocity.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction
- Descriptor
-
"X_area_fraction" means the fraction of horizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". The cloud area fraction is for the whole atmosphere column, as seen from the surface or the top of the atmosphere. The cloud area fraction in a layer of the atmosphere has the standard name cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- snowfall_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing shortwave flux is the reflected and scattered solar radiative flux i.e. the "upwelling" TOA shortwave flux, sometimes called the "outgoing shortwave radiation" or "OSR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Ambient Aerosol Optical Thickness at 440nm
Comment: AOD from the ambient aerosols (i.e., includes aerosol water). Does not include AOD from stratospheric aerosols if these are prescribed but includes other possible background aerosol types. Needs a comment attribute 'wavelength: 440nm'
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "longwave" means longwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- wind_speed
- Descriptor
-
Speed is the magnitude of velocity. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) The wind speed is the magnitude of the wind velocity.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_sensible_heat_flux
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface sensible heat flux, also called "turbulent" heat flux, is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air by motion of air. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_latent_heat_flux
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface latent heat flux is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air on account of evaporation (including sublimation). In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- geopotential_height
- Descriptor
-
Geopotential is the sum of the specific gravitational potential energy relative to the geoid and the specific centripetal potential energy. Geopotential height is the geopotential divided by the standard acceleration due to gravity. It is numerically similar to the altitude (or geometric height) and not to the quantity with standard name height, which is relative to the surface. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- geopotential_height
- Descriptor
-
Geopotential is the sum of the specific gravitational potential energy relative to the geoid and the specific centripetal potential energy. Geopotential height is the geopotential divided by the standard acceleration due to gravity. It is numerically similar to the altitude (or geometric height) and not to the quantity with standard name height, which is relative to the surface. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
A phrase assuming_condition indicates that the named quantity is the value which would obtain if all aspects of the system were unaltered except for the assumption of the circumstances specified by the condition. "longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_incoming_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA incoming shortwave flux is the radiative flux from the sun i.e. the "downwelling" TOA shortwave flux. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction
- Descriptor
-
"X_area_fraction" means the fraction of horizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". The cloud area fraction is for the whole atmosphere column, as seen from the surface or the top of the atmosphere. The cloud area fraction in a layer of the atmosphere has the standard name cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- snowfall_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_ice_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_pressure_at_convective_cloud_base
- Descriptor
-
air_pressure_at_convective_cloud_base [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- water_evapotranspiration_flux
- Descriptor
-
Snow Evaporation
Comment: Water here means water in all phases. Evaporation is the conversion of liquid or solid into vapor. (The conversion of solid alone into vapor is called 'sublimation'.) In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, 'flux' implies per unit area, called 'flux density' in physics. Unless indicated in the cell_methods attribute, a quantity is assumed to apply to the whole area of each horizontal grid box. Previously, the qualifier where_type was used to specify that the quantity applies only to the part of the grid box of the named type. Names containing the where_type qualifier are deprecated and newly created data should use the cell_methods attribute to indicate the horizontal area to which the quantity applies.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- lagrangian_tendency_of_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
"tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. The Lagrangian tendency of a quantity is its rate of change following the motion of the fluid, also called the "material derivative" or "convective derivative". The Lagrangian tendency of air pressure, often called "omega", plays the role of the upward component of air velocity when air pressure is being used as the vertical coordinate. If the vertical air velocity is upwards, it is negative when expressed as a tendency of air pressure; downwards is positive.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downward_eastward_stress
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). "Downward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed downward (negative upward). "Downward eastward" indicates the ZX component of a tensor. A downward eastward stress is a downward flux of eastward momentum, which accelerates the lower medium eastward and the upper medium westward. The surface downward stress is the windstress on the surface. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_cloud_condensed_water
- Descriptor
-
alias: atmosphere_cloud_condensed_water_content
"condensed_water" means liquid and ice. "Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including content_of_atmosphere_layer are used. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- net_downward_radiative_flux_at_top_of_atmosphere_model
- Descriptor
-
Net Downward Flux at Top of Model [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_net_upward_convective_mass_flux
- Descriptor
-
atmosphere_net_upward_convective_mass_flux [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_pressure_at_convective_cloud_top
- Descriptor
-
air_pressure_at_convective_cloud_top [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cell_area
- Descriptor
-
Model Grid-Cell Area [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor
- Descriptor
-
atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- water_evapotranspiration_flux
- Descriptor
-
Snow Evaporation
Comment: Water here means water in all phases. Evaporation is the conversion of liquid or solid into vapor. (The conversion of solid alone into vapor is called 'sublimation'.) In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, 'flux' implies per unit area, called 'flux density' in physics. Unless indicated in the cell_methods attribute, a quantity is assumed to apply to the whole area of each horizontal grid box. Previously, the qualifier where_type was used to specify that the quantity applies only to the part of the grid box of the named type. Names containing the where_type qualifier are deprecated and newly created data should use the cell_methods attribute to indicate the horizontal area to which the quantity applies.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_latent_heat_flux
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface latent heat flux is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air on account of evaporation (including sublimation). In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- geopotential_height
- Descriptor
-
Geopotential is the sum of the specific gravitational potential energy relative to the geoid and the specific centripetal potential energy. Geopotential height is the geopotential divided by the standard acceleration due to gravity. It is numerically similar to the altitude (or geometric height) and not to the quantity with standard name height, which is relative to the surface. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Ambient Aerosol Optical Thickness at 440nm
Comment: AOD from the ambient aerosols (i.e., includes aerosol water). Does not include AOD from stratospheric aerosols if these are prescribed but includes other possible background aerosol types. Needs a comment attribute 'wavelength: 440nm'
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_particles_due_to_emission
- Descriptor
-
Total Direct Emission Rate of SO4
Comment: Direct primary emission does not include secondary sulfate production. Integrate 3D emission field vertically to 2d field.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_liquid_water_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_particles_due_to_emission
- Descriptor
-
Total Direct Emission Rate of SO4
Comment: Direct primary emission does not include secondary sulfate production. Integrate 3D emission field vertically to 2d field.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_pressure_at_mean_sea_level
- Descriptor
-
Air pressure at sea level is the quantity often abbreviated as MSLP or PMSL. Air pressure is the force per unit area which would be exerted when the moving gas molecules of which the air is composed strike a theoretical surface of any orientation. "Mean sea level" means the time mean of sea surface elevation at a given location over an arbitrary period sufficient to eliminate the tidal signals. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing shortwave flux is the reflected and scattered solar radiative flux i.e. the "upwelling" TOA shortwave flux, sometimes called the "outgoing shortwave radiation" or "OSR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_altitude
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. Altitude is the (geometric) height above the geoid, which is the reference geopotential surface. The geoid is similar to mean sea level.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cell_area
- Descriptor
-
Model Grid-Cell Area [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_pressure_at_mean_sea_level
- Descriptor
-
Air pressure at sea level is the quantity often abbreviated as MSLP or PMSL. Air pressure is the force per unit area which would be exerted when the moving gas molecules of which the air is composed strike a theoretical surface of any orientation. "Mean sea level" means the time mean of sea surface elevation at a given location over an arbitrary period sufficient to eliminate the tidal signals. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- wind_speed
- Descriptor
-
Speed is the magnitude of velocity. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) The wind speed is the magnitude of the wind velocity.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "shortwave" means shortwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_sensible_heat_flux
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface sensible heat flux, also called "turbulent" heat flux, is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air by motion of air. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- wind_speed
- Descriptor
-
Speed is the magnitude of velocity. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) The wind speed is the magnitude of the wind velocity.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- snowfall_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_cloud_condensed_water
- Descriptor
-
alias: atmosphere_cloud_condensed_water_content
"condensed_water" means liquid and ice. "Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including content_of_atmosphere_layer are used. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- wind_speed
- Descriptor
-
Speed is the magnitude of velocity. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) The wind speed is the magnitude of the wind velocity.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_pressure_at_mean_sea_level
- Descriptor
-
Air pressure at sea level is the quantity often abbreviated as MSLP or PMSL. Air pressure is the force per unit area which would be exerted when the moving gas molecules of which the air is composed strike a theoretical surface of any orientation. "Mean sea level" means the time mean of sea surface elevation at a given location over an arbitrary period sufficient to eliminate the tidal signals. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_incoming_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA incoming shortwave flux is the radiative flux from the sun i.e. the "downwelling" TOA shortwave flux. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_ice_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- ocean_heat_x_transport
- Descriptor
-
Ocean Heat X Transport [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- ocean_heat_y_transport_due_to_diffusion
- Descriptor
-
Ocean Heat Y Transport due to Diffussion [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- ocean_heat_x_transport_due_to_bolus_advection
- Descriptor
-
Ocean Heat X Transport due to Bolus Advection [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_concentration_of_black_carbon_dry_aerosol_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Surface Concentration of Black Carbon Aerosol [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-3
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_cloud_condensed_water
- Descriptor
-
alias: atmosphere_cloud_condensed_water_content
"condensed_water" means liquid and ice. "Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including content_of_atmosphere_layer are used. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- lagrangian_tendency_of_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
"tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. The Lagrangian tendency of a quantity is its rate of change following the motion of the fluid, also called the "material derivative" or "convective derivative". The Lagrangian tendency of air pressure, often called "omega", plays the role of the upward component of air velocity when air pressure is being used as the vertical coordinate. If the vertical air velocity is upwards, it is negative when expressed as a tendency of air pressure; downwards is positive.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- lagrangian_tendency_of_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
"tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. The Lagrangian tendency of a quantity is its rate of change following the motion of the fluid, also called the "material derivative" or "convective derivative". The Lagrangian tendency of air pressure, often called "omega", plays the role of the upward component of air velocity when air pressure is being used as the vertical coordinate. If the vertical air velocity is upwards, it is negative when expressed as a tendency of air pressure; downwards is positive.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction
- Descriptor
-
"X_area_fraction" means the fraction of horizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". The cloud area fraction is for the whole atmosphere column, as seen from the surface or the top of the atmosphere. The cloud area fraction in a layer of the atmosphere has the standard name cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_concentration_of_black_carbon_dry_aerosol_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Surface Concentration of Black Carbon Aerosol [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-3
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_elemental_carbon_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Load of Black Carbon Aerosol
Comment: The total dry mass of black carbon aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_incoming_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA incoming shortwave flux is the radiative flux from the sun i.e. the "downwelling" TOA shortwave flux. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "shortwave" means shortwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- sea_ice_area_fraction
- Descriptor
-
sea_ice_area_fraction [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Ambient Aerosol Optical Thickness at 440nm
Comment: AOD from the ambient aerosols (i.e., includes aerosol water). Does not include AOD from stratospheric aerosols if these are prescribed but includes other possible background aerosol types. Needs a comment attribute 'wavelength: 440nm'
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_concentration_of_black_carbon_dry_aerosol_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Surface Concentration of Black Carbon Aerosol [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-3
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
A phrase assuming_condition indicates that the named quantity is the value which would obtain if all aspects of the system were unaltered except for the assumption of the circumstances specified by the condition. "longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_net_upward_convective_mass_flux
- Descriptor
-
atmosphere_net_upward_convective_mass_flux [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor
- Descriptor
-
atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_ice_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- water_evapotranspiration_flux
- Descriptor
-
Snow Evaporation
Comment: Water here means water in all phases. Evaporation is the conversion of liquid or solid into vapor. (The conversion of solid alone into vapor is called 'sublimation'.) In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, 'flux' implies per unit area, called 'flux density' in physics. Unless indicated in the cell_methods attribute, a quantity is assumed to apply to the whole area of each horizontal grid box. Previously, the qualifier where_type was used to specify that the quantity applies only to the part of the grid box of the named type. Names containing the where_type qualifier are deprecated and newly created data should use the cell_methods attribute to indicate the horizontal area to which the quantity applies.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_pressure_at_convective_cloud_base
- Descriptor
-
air_pressure_at_convective_cloud_base [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convection_time_fraction
- Descriptor
-
convection_time_fraction [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "longwave" means longwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_cloud_ice
- Descriptor
-
Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including content_of_atmosphere_layer are used. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_liquid_water_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- snowfall_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- lagrangian_tendency_of_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
"tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. The Lagrangian tendency of a quantity is its rate of change following the motion of the fluid, also called the "material derivative" or "convective derivative". The Lagrangian tendency of air pressure, often called "omega", plays the role of the upward component of air velocity when air pressure is being used as the vertical coordinate. If the vertical air velocity is upwards, it is negative when expressed as a tendency of air pressure; downwards is positive.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_pressure_at_convective_cloud_base
- Descriptor
-
air_pressure_at_convective_cloud_base [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer
- Descriptor
-
"Layer" means any layer with upper and lower boundaries that have constant values in some vertical coordinate. There must be a vertical coordinate variable indicating the extent of the layer(s). If the layers are model layers, the vertical coordinate can be model_level_number, but it is recommended to specify a physical coordinate (in a scalar or auxiliary coordinate variable) as well. "X_area_fraction" means the fraction ofhorizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_liquid_water_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor
- Descriptor
-
atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downward_eastward_stress
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). "Downward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed downward (negative upward). "Downward eastward" indicates the ZX component of a tensor. A downward eastward stress is a downward flux of eastward momentum, which accelerates the lower medium eastward and the upper medium westward. The surface downward stress is the windstress on the surface. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_pressure_at_convective_cloud_top
- Descriptor
-
air_pressure_at_convective_cloud_top [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- geopotential_height
- Descriptor
-
Geopotential is the sum of the specific gravitational potential energy relative to the geoid and the specific centripetal potential energy. Geopotential height is the geopotential divided by the standard acceleration due to gravity. It is numerically similar to the altitude (or geometric height) and not to the quantity with standard name height, which is relative to the surface. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convection_time_fraction
- Descriptor
-
convection_time_fraction [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downward_northward_stress
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). "Downward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed downward (negative upward). "Downward northward" indicates the ZY component of a tensor. A downward northward stress is a downward flux of northward momentum, which accelerates the lower medium northward and the upper medium southward. The surface downward stress is the windstress on the surface. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- shallow_convection_time_fraction
- Descriptor
-
shallow_convection_time_fraction [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_incoming_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA incoming shortwave flux is the radiative flux from the sun i.e. the "downwelling" TOA shortwave flux. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_liquid_water_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- water_evapotranspiration_flux
- Descriptor
-
Snow Evaporation
Comment: Water here means water in all phases. Evaporation is the conversion of liquid or solid into vapor. (The conversion of solid alone into vapor is called 'sublimation'.) In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, 'flux' implies per unit area, called 'flux density' in physics. Unless indicated in the cell_methods attribute, a quantity is assumed to apply to the whole area of each horizontal grid box. Previously, the qualifier where_type was used to specify that the quantity applies only to the part of the grid box of the named type. Names containing the where_type qualifier are deprecated and newly created data should use the cell_methods attribute to indicate the horizontal area to which the quantity applies.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- geopotential_height
- Descriptor
-
Geopotential is the sum of the specific gravitational potential energy relative to the geoid and the specific centripetal potential energy. Geopotential height is the geopotential divided by the standard acceleration due to gravity. It is numerically similar to the altitude (or geometric height) and not to the quantity with standard name height, which is relative to the surface. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Load of SO4
Comment: The total dry mass of sulfate aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday; Table Emon, provided in frequency(s): day; mon, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Load of SO4
Comment: The total dry mass of sulfate aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday; Table Emon, provided in frequency(s): day; mon, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_particles_due_to_emission
- Descriptor
-
Total Direct Emission Rate of SO4
Comment: Direct primary emission does not include secondary sulfate production. Integrate 3D emission field vertically to 2d field.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "longwave" means longwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_incoming_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA incoming shortwave flux is the radiative flux from the sun i.e. the "downwelling" TOA shortwave flux. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing shortwave flux is the reflected and scattered solar radiative flux i.e. the "upwelling" TOA shortwave flux, sometimes called the "outgoing shortwave radiation" or "OSR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor
- Descriptor
-
atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_elemental_carbon_dry_aerosol_particles_due_to_emission
- Descriptor
-
Total Emission Rate of Black Carbon Aerosol Mass
Comment: Integrate 3D emission field vertically to 2d field.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity-at2m
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity-at2m [CF-Standard Name-vertical_coordinate]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- wind_speed
- Descriptor
-
Speed is the magnitude of velocity. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) The wind speed is the magnitude of the wind velocity.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_liquid_water_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- lagrangian_tendency_of_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
"tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. The Lagrangian tendency of a quantity is its rate of change following the motion of the fluid, also called the "material derivative" or "convective derivative". The Lagrangian tendency of air pressure, often called "omega", plays the role of the upward component of air velocity when air pressure is being used as the vertical coordinate. If the vertical air velocity is upwards, it is negative when expressed as a tendency of air pressure; downwards is positive.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_ice_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_particles_due_to_emission
- Descriptor
-
Total Direct Emission Rate of SO4
Comment: Direct primary emission does not include secondary sulfate production. Integrate 3D emission field vertically to 2d field.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- net_downward_radiative_flux_at_top_of_atmosphere_model
- Descriptor
-
Net Downward Flux at Top of Model [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- lagrangian_tendency_of_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
"tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. The Lagrangian tendency of a quantity is its rate of change following the motion of the fluid, also called the "material derivative" or "convective derivative". The Lagrangian tendency of air pressure, often called "omega", plays the role of the upward component of air velocity when air pressure is being used as the vertical coordinate. If the vertical air velocity is upwards, it is negative when expressed as a tendency of air pressure; downwards is positive.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer
- Descriptor
-
"Layer" means any layer with upper and lower boundaries that have constant values in some vertical coordinate. There must be a vertical coordinate variable indicating the extent of the layer(s). If the layers are model layers, the vertical coordinate can be model_level_number, but it is recommended to specify a physical coordinate (in a scalar or auxiliary coordinate variable) as well. "X_area_fraction" means the fraction ofhorizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- lagrangian_tendency_of_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
"tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. The Lagrangian tendency of a quantity is its rate of change following the motion of the fluid, also called the "material derivative" or "convective derivative". The Lagrangian tendency of air pressure, often called "omega", plays the role of the upward component of air velocity when air pressure is being used as the vertical coordinate. If the vertical air velocity is upwards, it is negative when expressed as a tendency of air pressure; downwards is positive.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Load of SO4
Comment: The total dry mass of sulfate aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday; Table Emon, provided in frequency(s): day; mon, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction
- Descriptor
-
"X_area_fraction" means the fraction of horizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". The cloud area fraction is for the whole atmosphere column, as seen from the surface or the top of the atmosphere. The cloud area fraction in a layer of the atmosphere has the standard name cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_cloud_condensed_water
- Descriptor
-
alias: atmosphere_cloud_condensed_water_content
"condensed_water" means liquid and ice. "Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including content_of_atmosphere_layer are used. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_concentration_of_black_carbon_dry_aerosol_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Surface Concentration of Black Carbon Aerosol [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-3
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_ice_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_latent_heat_flux
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface latent heat flux is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air on account of evaporation (including sublimation). In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor
- Descriptor
-
atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor_due_to_sublimation_of_surface_snow_and_ice
- Descriptor
-
Surface Snow and Ice Sublimation Flux
Comment: The snow and ice sublimation flux is the loss of snow and ice mass per unit area from the surface resulting from their direct conversion to water vapor that enters the atmosphere.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Amon; Table CF3hr; Table CFsubhr; Table Eday; Table ImonAnt; Table ImonGre; Table LImon, provided in frequency(s): 3hrPt; day; mon; subhrPt, and for Realm(s): atmos; atmosChem; land; landIce.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_cloud_ice
- Descriptor
-
Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including content_of_atmosphere_layer are used. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
A phrase assuming_condition indicates that the named quantity is the value which would obtain if all aspects of the system were unaltered except for the assumption of the circumstances specified by the condition. "longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "longwave" means longwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
A phrase assuming_condition indicates that the named quantity is the value which would obtain if all aspects of the system were unaltered except for the assumption of the circumstances specified by the condition. "longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_cloud_condensed_water
- Descriptor
-
alias: atmosphere_cloud_condensed_water_content
"condensed_water" means liquid and ice. "Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including content_of_atmosphere_layer are used. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_sensible_heat_flux
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface sensible heat flux, also called "turbulent" heat flux, is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air by motion of air. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "shortwave" means shortwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "longwave" means longwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- shallow_convection_time_fraction
- Descriptor
-
shallow_convection_time_fraction [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_concentration_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Concentration of SO4 [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-3
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction
- Descriptor
-
"X_area_fraction" means the fraction of horizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". The cloud area fraction is for the whole atmosphere column, as seen from the surface or the top of the atmosphere. The cloud area fraction in a layer of the atmosphere has the standard name cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
A phrase assuming_condition indicates that the named quantity is the value which would obtain if all aspects of the system were unaltered except for the assumption of the circumstances specified by the condition. "longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- wind_speed
- Descriptor
-
Speed is the magnitude of velocity. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) The wind speed is the magnitude of the wind velocity.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- wind_speed
- Descriptor
-
Speed is the magnitude of velocity. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) The wind speed is the magnitude of the wind velocity.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing shortwave flux is the reflected and scattered solar radiative flux i.e. the "upwelling" TOA shortwave flux, sometimes called the "outgoing shortwave radiation" or "OSR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_absorption_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Ambient Aerosol Absorption Optical Thickness at 550nm
Comment: Optical thickness of atmospheric aerosols at wavelength 550 nanometers.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "longwave" means longwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_snow_area_fraction
- Descriptor
-
surface_snow_area_fraction [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convection_time_fraction
- Descriptor
-
convection_time_fraction [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- geopotential_height
- Descriptor
-
Geopotential is the sum of the specific gravitational potential energy relative to the geoid and the specific centripetal potential energy. Geopotential height is the geopotential divided by the standard acceleration due to gravity. It is numerically similar to the altitude (or geometric height) and not to the quantity with standard name height, which is relative to the surface. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_concentration_of_black_carbon_dry_aerosol_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Surface Concentration of Black Carbon Aerosol [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-3
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- water_evapotranspiration_flux
- Descriptor
-
Snow Evaporation
Comment: Water here means water in all phases. Evaporation is the conversion of liquid or solid into vapor. (The conversion of solid alone into vapor is called 'sublimation'.) In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, 'flux' implies per unit area, called 'flux density' in physics. Unless indicated in the cell_methods attribute, a quantity is assumed to apply to the whole area of each horizontal grid box. Previously, the qualifier where_type was used to specify that the quantity applies only to the part of the grid box of the named type. Names containing the where_type qualifier are deprecated and newly created data should use the cell_methods attribute to indicate the horizontal area to which the quantity applies.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_liquid_water_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Load of SO4
Comment: The total dry mass of sulfate aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday; Table Emon, provided in frequency(s): day; mon, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- geopotential_height
- Descriptor
-
Geopotential is the sum of the specific gravitational potential energy relative to the geoid and the specific centripetal potential energy. Geopotential height is the geopotential divided by the standard acceleration due to gravity. It is numerically similar to the altitude (or geometric height) and not to the quantity with standard name height, which is relative to the surface. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_elemental_carbon_dry_aerosol_particles_due_to_emission
- Descriptor
-
Total Emission Rate of Black Carbon Aerosol Mass
Comment: Integrate 3D emission field vertically to 2d field.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- water_evapotranspiration_flux
- Descriptor
-
Snow Evaporation
Comment: Water here means water in all phases. Evaporation is the conversion of liquid or solid into vapor. (The conversion of solid alone into vapor is called 'sublimation'.) In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, 'flux' implies per unit area, called 'flux density' in physics. Unless indicated in the cell_methods attribute, a quantity is assumed to apply to the whole area of each horizontal grid box. Previously, the qualifier where_type was used to specify that the quantity applies only to the part of the grid box of the named type. Names containing the where_type qualifier are deprecated and newly created data should use the cell_methods attribute to indicate the horizontal area to which the quantity applies.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity-at2m
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity-at2m [CF-Standard Name-vertical_coordinate]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing shortwave flux is the reflected and scattered solar radiative flux i.e. the "upwelling" TOA shortwave flux, sometimes called the "outgoing shortwave radiation" or "OSR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction
- Descriptor
-
"X_area_fraction" means the fraction of horizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". The cloud area fraction is for the whole atmosphere column, as seen from the surface or the top of the atmosphere. The cloud area fraction in a layer of the atmosphere has the standard name cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convection_time_fraction
- Descriptor
-
convection_time_fraction [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_pressure_at_mean_sea_level
- Descriptor
-
Air pressure at sea level is the quantity often abbreviated as MSLP or PMSL. Air pressure is the force per unit area which would be exerted when the moving gas molecules of which the air is composed strike a theoretical surface of any orientation. "Mean sea level" means the time mean of sea surface elevation at a given location over an arbitrary period sufficient to eliminate the tidal signals. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_incoming_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA incoming shortwave flux is the radiative flux from the sun i.e. the "downwelling" TOA shortwave flux. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- water_evapotranspiration_flux
- Descriptor
-
Snow Evaporation
Comment: Water here means water in all phases. Evaporation is the conversion of liquid or solid into vapor. (The conversion of solid alone into vapor is called 'sublimation'.) In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, 'flux' implies per unit area, called 'flux density' in physics. Unless indicated in the cell_methods attribute, a quantity is assumed to apply to the whole area of each horizontal grid box. Previously, the qualifier where_type was used to specify that the quantity applies only to the part of the grid box of the named type. Names containing the where_type qualifier are deprecated and newly created data should use the cell_methods attribute to indicate the horizontal area to which the quantity applies.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "longwave" means longwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_absorption_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Ambient Aerosol Absorption Optical Thickness at 550nm
Comment: Optical thickness of atmospheric aerosols at wavelength 550 nanometers.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- water_evapotranspiration_flux
- Descriptor
-
Snow Evaporation
Comment: Water here means water in all phases. Evaporation is the conversion of liquid or solid into vapor. (The conversion of solid alone into vapor is called 'sublimation'.) In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, 'flux' implies per unit area, called 'flux density' in physics. Unless indicated in the cell_methods attribute, a quantity is assumed to apply to the whole area of each horizontal grid box. Previously, the qualifier where_type was used to specify that the quantity applies only to the part of the grid box of the named type. Names containing the where_type qualifier are deprecated and newly created data should use the cell_methods attribute to indicate the horizontal area to which the quantity applies.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_pressure_at_mean_sea_level
- Descriptor
-
Air pressure at sea level is the quantity often abbreviated as MSLP or PMSL. Air pressure is the force per unit area which would be exerted when the moving gas molecules of which the air is composed strike a theoretical surface of any orientation. "Mean sea level" means the time mean of sea surface elevation at a given location over an arbitrary period sufficient to eliminate the tidal signals. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_sensible_heat_flux
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface sensible heat flux, also called "turbulent" heat flux, is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air by motion of air. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction
- Descriptor
-
"X_area_fraction" means the fraction of horizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". The cloud area fraction is for the whole atmosphere column, as seen from the surface or the top of the atmosphere. The cloud area fraction in a layer of the atmosphere has the standard name cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer
- Descriptor
-
"Layer" means any layer with upper and lower boundaries that have constant values in some vertical coordinate. There must be a vertical coordinate variable indicating the extent of the layer(s). If the layers are model layers, the vertical coordinate can be model_level_number, but it is recommended to specify a physical coordinate (in a scalar or auxiliary coordinate variable) as well. "X_area_fraction" means the fraction ofhorizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_liquid_water_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convection_time_fraction
- Descriptor
-
convection_time_fraction [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Ambient Aerosol Optical Thickness at 440nm
Comment: AOD from the ambient aerosols (i.e., includes aerosol water). Does not include AOD from stratospheric aerosols if these are prescribed but includes other possible background aerosol types. Needs a comment attribute 'wavelength: 440nm'
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- geopotential_height
- Descriptor
-
Geopotential is the sum of the specific gravitational potential energy relative to the geoid and the specific centripetal potential energy. Geopotential height is the geopotential divided by the standard acceleration due to gravity. It is numerically similar to the altitude (or geometric height) and not to the quantity with standard name height, which is relative to the surface. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
A phrase assuming_condition indicates that the named quantity is the value which would obtain if all aspects of the system were unaltered except for the assumption of the circumstances specified by the condition. "longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_elemental_carbon_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Load of Black Carbon Aerosol
Comment: The total dry mass of black carbon aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity-at2m
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity-at2m [CF-Standard Name-vertical_coordinate]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- lagrangian_tendency_of_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
"tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. The Lagrangian tendency of a quantity is its rate of change following the motion of the fluid, also called the "material derivative" or "convective derivative". The Lagrangian tendency of air pressure, often called "omega", plays the role of the upward component of air velocity when air pressure is being used as the vertical coordinate. If the vertical air velocity is upwards, it is negative when expressed as a tendency of air pressure; downwards is positive.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Load of SO4
Comment: The total dry mass of sulfate aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday; Table Emon, provided in frequency(s): day; mon, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_sensible_heat_flux
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface sensible heat flux, also called "turbulent" heat flux, is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air by motion of air. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer
- Descriptor
-
"Layer" means any layer with upper and lower boundaries that have constant values in some vertical coordinate. There must be a vertical coordinate variable indicating the extent of the layer(s). If the layers are model layers, the vertical coordinate can be model_level_number, but it is recommended to specify a physical coordinate (in a scalar or auxiliary coordinate variable) as well. "X_area_fraction" means the fraction ofhorizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfur_dioxide_due_to_emission
- Descriptor
-
"tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. "Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. "Emission" means emission from a primary source located anywhere within the atmosphere, including at the lower boundary (i.e. earth's surface). 'Emission' is a process entirely distinct from "re-emission" which is used in some standard names. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing shortwave flux is the reflected and scattered solar radiative flux i.e. the "upwelling" TOA shortwave flux, sometimes called the "outgoing shortwave radiation" or "OSR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- net_downward_radiative_flux_at_top_of_atmosphere_model
- Descriptor
-
Net Downward Flux at Top of Model [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_cloud_ice
- Descriptor
-
Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including content_of_atmosphere_layer are used. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_absorption_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Ambient Aerosol Absorption Optical Thickness at 550nm
Comment: Optical thickness of atmospheric aerosols at wavelength 550 nanometers.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing shortwave flux is the reflected and scattered solar radiative flux i.e. the "upwelling" TOA shortwave flux, sometimes called the "outgoing shortwave radiation" or "OSR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_concentration_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Concentration of SO4 [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-3
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_sensible_heat_flux
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface sensible heat flux, also called "turbulent" heat flux, is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air by motion of air. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- wind_speed
- Descriptor
-
Speed is the magnitude of velocity. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) The wind speed is the magnitude of the wind velocity.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- wind_speed
- Descriptor
-
Speed is the magnitude of velocity. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) The wind speed is the magnitude of the wind velocity.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_latent_heat_flux
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface latent heat flux is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air on account of evaporation (including sublimation). In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_cloud_ice
- Descriptor
-
Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including content_of_atmosphere_layer are used. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_temperature
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. The surface temperature is the (skin) temperature at the interface, not the bulk temperature of the medium above or below. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_liquid_water_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_pressure_at_mean_sea_level
- Descriptor
-
Air pressure at sea level is the quantity often abbreviated as MSLP or PMSL. Air pressure is the force per unit area which would be exerted when the moving gas molecules of which the air is composed strike a theoretical surface of any orientation. "Mean sea level" means the time mean of sea surface elevation at a given location over an arbitrary period sufficient to eliminate the tidal signals. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Ambient Aerosol Optical Thickness at 440nm
Comment: AOD from the ambient aerosols (i.e., includes aerosol water). Does not include AOD from stratospheric aerosols if these are prescribed but includes other possible background aerosol types. Needs a comment attribute 'wavelength: 440nm'
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_pressure_at_mean_sea_level
- Descriptor
-
Air pressure at sea level is the quantity often abbreviated as MSLP or PMSL. Air pressure is the force per unit area which would be exerted when the moving gas molecules of which the air is composed strike a theoretical surface of any orientation. "Mean sea level" means the time mean of sea surface elevation at a given location over an arbitrary period sufficient to eliminate the tidal signals. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_absorption_optical_thickness_due_to_ambient_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Ambient Aerosol Absorption Optical Thickness at 550nm
Comment: Optical thickness of atmospheric aerosols at wavelength 550 nanometers.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table AERmon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): aerosol.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- wind_speed
- Descriptor
-
Speed is the magnitude of velocity. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) The wind speed is the magnitude of the wind velocity.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfate_dry_aerosol_particles
- Descriptor
-
Load of SO4
Comment: The total dry mass of sulfate aerosol particles per unit area.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday; Table Emon, provided in frequency(s): day; mon, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor
- Descriptor
-
atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- mass_fraction_of_cloud_liquid_water_in_air
- Descriptor
-
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of Y to the mass of X (including Y). [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
-
relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
-
"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- snowfall_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "shortwave" means shortwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upward_latent_heat_flux
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). The surface latent heat flux is the exchange of heat between the surface and the air on account of evaporation (including sublimation). In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_incoming_shortwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"shortwave" means shortwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA incoming shortwave flux is the radiative flux from the sun i.e. the "downwelling" TOA shortwave flux. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
-
Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convection_time_fraction
- Descriptor
-
convection_time_fraction [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- net_downward_radiative_flux_at_top_of_atmosphere_model
- Descriptor
-
Net Downward Flux at Top of Model [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- toa_outgoing_longwave_flux
- Descriptor
-
"longwave" means longwave radiation. "toa" means top of atmosphere. The TOA outgoing longwave flux is the upwelling thermal radiative flux, often called the "outgoing longwave radiation" or "OLR". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction
- Descriptor
-
"X_area_fraction" means the fraction of horizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". The cloud area fraction is for the whole atmosphere column, as seen from the surface or the top of the atmosphere. The cloud area fraction in a layer of the atmosphere has the standard name cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_mass_content_of_cloud_ice
- Descriptor
-
Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including content_of_atmosphere_layer are used. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- lagrangian_tendency_of_air_pressure
- Descriptor
-
"tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. The Lagrangian tendency of a quantity is its rate of change following the motion of the fluid, also called the "material derivative" or "convective derivative". The Lagrangian tendency of air pressure, often called "omega", plays the role of the upward component of air velocity when air pressure is being used as the vertical coordinate. If the vertical air velocity is upwards, it is negative when expressed as a tendency of air pressure; downwards is positive.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
- Descriptor
-
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- convective_precipitation_flux
- Descriptor
-
In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- water_evapotranspiration_flux
- Descriptor
-
Snow Evaporation
Comment: Water here means water in all phases. Evaporation is the conversion of liquid or solid into vapor. (The conversion of solid alone into vapor is called 'sublimation'.) In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, 'flux' implies per unit area, called 'flux density' in physics. Unless indicated in the cell_methods attribute, a quantity is assumed to apply to the whole area of each horizontal grid box. Previously, the qualifier where_type was used to specify that the quantity applies only to the part of the grid box of the named type. Names containing the where_type qualifier are deprecated and newly created data should use the cell_methods attribute to indicate the horizontal area to which the quantity applies.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Eday, provided in frequency(s): day, and for Realm(s): land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2 s-1
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- surface_upwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
-
The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "longwave" means longwave radiation. Upwelling radiation is radiation from below. It does not mean "net upward". When thought of as being incident on a surface, a radiative flux is sometimes called "irradiance". In addition, it is identical with the quantity measured by a cosine-collector light-meter and sometimes called "vector irradiance". In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction
- Descriptor
-
"X_area_fraction" means the fraction of horizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". The cloud area fraction is for the whole atmosphere column, as seen from the surface or the top of the atmosphere. The cloud area fraction in a layer of the atmosphere has the standard name cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- air_pressure_at_convective_cloud_top
- Descriptor
-
air_pressure_at_convective_cloud_top [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
Coverage Description
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
-
"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: 1
Metadata
Metadata
- File identifier
- wdc-climate.de:3889821 XML
- Metadata language
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eng; USA
- Hierarchy level
- collection
- Hierarchy level name
-
PDRMIP_2012-2021
- Date stamp
- 2021-08-11T12:04:12
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115
- Metadata standard version
-
ISO 19115-2:2009
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