1.8 CF Standard Names: Mass Concentration of Cloud Liquid Water in Air (mass_concentration_of_cloud_liquid_water_in_air)

Record Label : mass_concentration_of_cloud_liquid_water_in_air

Record Title : Mass Concentration of Cloud Liquid Water in Air

CF Standard Name : mass_concentration_of_cloud_liquid_water_in_air

Record Description : "Mass concentration" means mass per unit volume and is used in the construction "mass_concentration_of_X_in_Y", where X is a material constituent of Y. A chemical species or biological group denoted by X may be described by a single term such as "nitrogen" or a phrase such as "nox_expressed_as_nitrogen". "Cloud liquid water" refers to the liquid phase of cloud water. A diameter of 0.2 mm has been suggested as an upper limit to the size of drops that shall be regarded as cloud drops; larger drops fall rapidly enough so that only very strong updrafts can sustain them. Any such division is somewhat arbitrary, and active cumulus clouds sometimes contain cloud drops much larger than this. Reference: AMS Glossary http://glossary.ametsoc.org/wiki/Cloud_drop.

Canonical Units : kg m-3