1.3 CMOR Variable: Surface Snow and Ice Melt Flux (snicem)

Record Label : snicem

Record Title : Surface Snow and Ice Melt Flux

Record Identifier : d5b31b3c-c78d-11e6-9b25-5404a60d96b5

Link to a record specifying the structure of the variable : str-b159

MIP Variable : snicem

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 : 2

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

Modeling Realm : landIce

CMOR Directive Positive :

Link to MIP table record : ImonAnt

The MIP table : ImonAnt

Provenance : ISMIP6 [ImonAnt]

Provenance Note :

Frequency of Time Steps to be Archived : mon

Row index of entry in source sheet : 14

Description : Loss of snow and ice mass resulting from surface melting. Computed as the total surface melt on the land ice portion of the grid cell divided by land ice area in the grid cell.

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