1.8 CF Standard Names: Change Over Time in Amount of Ice And Snow on Land (change_over_time_in_amount_of_ice_and_snow_on_land)

Record Label : change_over_time_in_amount_of_ice_and_snow_on_land

Record Title : Change Over Time in Amount of Ice And Snow on Land

CF Standard Name : change_over_time_in_amount_of_ice_and_snow_on_land

Record Description : The phrase "change_over_time_in_X" means change in a quantity X over a time-interval, which should be defined by the bounds of the time coordinate. "Amount" means mass per unit area. The phrase "ice_and_snow_on_land" means ice in glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets and shelves, river and lake ice, any other ice on a land surface, such as frozen flood water, and snow lying on such ice or on the land surface.

Canonical Units : kg m-2

MIP Variable : Change in Snow Water Equivalent