1.8 CF Standard Names: Mass Fraction of Graupel in Air (mass_fraction_of_graupel_in_air)

Record Label : mass_fraction_of_graupel_in_air

Record Title : Mass Fraction of Graupel in Air

CF Standard Name : mass_fraction_of_graupel_in_air

Record Description : Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of X to the mass of Y (including X). Graupel consists of heavily rimed snow particles, often called snow pellets; often indistinguishable from very small soft hail except when the size convention that hail must have a diameter greater than 5 mm is adopted. Reference: American Meteorological Society Glossary http://glossary.ametsoc.org/wiki/Graupel. There are also separate standard names for hail. Standard names for "graupel_and_hail" should be used to describe data produced by models that do not distinguish between hail and graupel.

Canonical Units : 1

MIP Variable : Graupel Mixing Ratio