1.3 CMOR Variable: Mean Age of Snow (agesno)

Record Label : agesno

Record Title : Mean Age of Snow

Record Identifier : baa7f8ae-e5dd-11e5-8482-ac72891c3257

Link to a record specifying the structure of the variable : str-a014

MIP Variable : agesno

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 : landIce land

CMOR Directive Positive :

Link to MIP table record : LImon

The MIP table : LImon

Provenance : LImon ((isd.003))

Provenance Note :

Frequency of Time Steps to be Archived : mon

Row index of entry in source sheet : 16

Description : When computing the time-mean here, the time samples, weighted by the mass of snow on the land portion of the grid cell, are accumulated and then divided by the sum of the weights. Reported as "missing in regions free of snow on land.

Request variable (carrying priority and link to group) :