1.8 CF Standard Names: Land Ice Basal Drag (land_ice_basal_drag)

Record Label : land_ice_basal_drag

Record Title : Land Ice Basal Drag

CF Standard Name : land_ice_basal_drag

Record Description : "Land ice" means glaciers, ice-caps and ice-sheets resting on bedrock and also includes ice-shelves. Basal drag is a resistive stress opposing ice flow at the ice bedrock boundary.

Canonical Units : Pa

MIP Variable : Land Ice Basal Drag