1.8 CF Standard Names: Mass Fraction of Hail in Air (mass_fraction_of_hail_in_air)

Record Label : mass_fraction_of_hail_in_air

Record Title : Mass Fraction of Hail in Air

CF Standard Name : mass_fraction_of_hail_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). Hail is precipitation in the form of balls or irregular lumps of ice, often restricted by a size convention to diameters of 5 mm or more. Reference: American Meteorological Society Glossary http://glossary.ametsoc.org/wiki/Hail. For diameters of less than 5 mm standard names for "graupel" should be used. 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