1.3 CMOR Variable: Square of Brunt Vaisala Frequency in Sea Water (obvfsq)

Record Label : obvfsq

Record Title : Square of Brunt Vaisala Frequency in Sea Water

Record Identifier : 1aab5d20-b006-11e6-9289-ac72891c3257

Link to a record specifying the structure of the variable : str-157

MIP Variable : obvfsq

Deflate: NetCDF compression parameter :

Deflate Level: NetCDF compression parameter :

Shuffle: NetCDF compression parameter :

Indicative priority for this parameter, which is over-ruled by the requestVar priority setting, but provides a reference for organisation of the CMORvariables : 1

Data value type, e.g. float or double : real

Modeling Realm : ocean

CMOR Directive Positive :

Section of a table : Omon_3d

Link to MIP table record : Omon

The MIP table : Omon

Provenance : Omon ((isd.003))

Processing Notes : Report on native horizontal grid as well as on a spherical latitude/longitude grid. Online mapping to depth/pressure vertical grid if depth or pressure are not native.

Provenance Note : Omon_3d

Frequency of Time Steps to be Archived : mon

Row index of entry in source sheet : 32

Description : The phrase "square_of_X" means X*X. Frequency is the number of oscillations of a wave per unit time. Brunt-Vaisala frequency is also sometimes called "buoyancy frequency" and is a measure of the vertical stratification of the medium.

Sub-group of variables in a table : Omon_3d

Request variable (carrying priority and link to group) :