1.8 CF Standard Names: Land Ice Mass (land_ice_mass)

Record Label : land_ice_mass

Record Title : Land Ice Mass

CF Standard Name : land_ice_mass

Record Description : "Land ice" means glaciers, ice-caps and ice-sheets resting on bedrock and also includes ice-shelves. The horizontal domain over which the quantity is calculated is described by the associated coordinate variables and coordinate bounds or by a coordinate variable or scalar coordinate variable with the standard name of "region" supplied according to section 6.1.1 of the CF conventions.

Canonical Units : kg

MIP Variable : Ice Sheet Mass