1.8 CF Standard Names: Land Water Amount (land_water_amount)

Record Label : land_water_amount

Record Title : Land Water Amount

CF Standard Name : land_water_amount

Record Description : "Amount" means mass per unit area. "Water" means water in all phases. The phrase "land_water_amount", often known as "Terrestrial Water Storage", includes: surface liquid water (water in rivers, wetlands, lakes, reservoirs, rainfall intercepted by the canopy); surface ice and snow (glaciers, ice caps, grounded ice sheets not displacing sea water, river and lake ice, other surface ice such as frozen flood water, snow lying on the surface and intercepted by the canopy); subsurface water (liquid and frozen soil water, groundwater).

Canonical Units : kg m-2

MIP Variable : Terrestrial Water Storage