1.8 CF Standard Names: Atmosphere Mass Content of Graupel (atmosphere_mass_content_of_graupel)

Record Label : atmosphere_mass_content_of_graupel

Record Title : Atmosphere Mass Content of Graupel

CF Standard Name : atmosphere_mass_content_of_graupel

Record Description : "Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including "content_of_atmosphere_layer" are used. Graupel consists of heavily rimed snow particles, often called snow pellets; often indistinguishable from very small soft hail except when the size convention that hail must have a diameter greater than 5 mm is adopted. Reference: American Meteorological Society Glossary http://glossary.ametsoc.org/wiki/Graupel. There are also separate standard names for hail. Standard names for "graupel_and_hail" should be used to describe data produced by models that do not distinguish between hail and graupel.

Canonical Units : kg m-2