1.3 CMOR Variable: Cloud-Top Effective Droplet Radius in Convective Cloud (reffcclwtop)

Record Label : reffcclwtop

Record Title : Cloud-Top Effective Droplet Radius in Convective Cloud

Record Identifier : 8b8b322e-4a5b-11e6-9cd2-ac72891c3257

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

MIP Variable : reffcclwtop

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]

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Frequency of Time Steps to be Archived : day

Row index of entry in source sheet : 14

Description : Droplets are liquid only. This is the effective radius "as seen from space" over convective liquid cloudy portion of grid cell. This is the value from uppermost model layer with liquid cloud or, if available, or for some models it is the sum over all liquid cloud tops, no matter where they occur, as long as they are seen from the top of the atmosphere. Reported values are weighted by total liquid cloud top fraction of (as seen from TOA) each time sample when computing monthly mean.daily data, separated to large-scale clouds, convective clouds. If any of the cloud is from more than one process (i.e. shallow convection), please provide them separately.

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