1.3 CMOR Variable: Surface Snow Amount (snw)

Record Label : snw

Record Title : Surface Snow Amount

Record Identifier : 8bb08740-4a5b-11e6-9cd2-ac72891c3257

Link to a record specifying the structure of the variable : str-h041

MIP Variable : snw

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 : 3

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

Modeling Realm : landIce land

CMOR Directive Positive :

Link to MIP table record : 6hrPlevPt

The MIP table : 6hrPlevPt

Provenance : HighResMIP [6hrPlev_intense]

Provenance Note :

Frequency of Time Steps to be Archived : 6hrPt

Row index of entry in source sheet : 32

Description : The mass of surface snow on the land portion of the grid cell divided by the land area in the grid cell; reported as missing where the land fraction is 0; excludes snow on vegetation canopy or on sea ice.

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