1.3 CMOR Variable: Ice Crystal Number Concentration of Cloud Tops (cldnci)

Record Label : cldnci

Record Title : Ice Crystal Number Concentration of Cloud Tops

Record Identifier : 7d8c38bc-1ab7-11e7-8dfc-5404a60d96b5

Link to a record specifying the structure of the variable : str-013

MIP Variable : cldnci

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 : atmos

CMOR Directive Positive :

Link to MIP table record : Eday

The MIP table : Eday

Provenance : CFMIP [aeroDay_2d]

Provenance Note :

Frequency of Time Steps to be Archived : day

Row index of entry in source sheet : 17

Description : Concentration 'as seen from space' over ice-cloud portion of grid cell. This is the value from uppermost model layer with ice cloud or, if available, it is the sum over all ice cloud tops, no matter where they occur, as long as they are seen from the top of the atmosphere. Weight by total ice cloud top fraction (as seen from TOA) of each time sample when computing monthly mean.

Request variable (carrying priority and link to group) : cldnci ((isd.006))