Record Label : land_ice_specific_mass_flux_due_to_calving
Record Title : Land Ice Specific Mass Flux due to Calving
CF Standard Name : land_ice_specific_mass_flux_due_to_calving
Record Description : "Land ice" means glaciers, ice-caps and ice-sheets resting on bedrock and also includes ice-shelves. "Specific mass flux due to calving" means the change in land ice mass per unit area resulting from iceberg calving. A negative value means loss of ice. For an area-average, the cell_methods attribute should be used to specify whether the average is over the area of the whole grid cell or the area of land ice only. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. The specification of a physical process by the phrase "due_to_" process means that the quantity named is a single term in a sum of terms which together compose the general quantity named by omitting the phrase.
Canonical Units : kg m-2 s-1
MIP Variable : Land Ice Calving Flux