1.8 CF Standard Names: Sea Ice And Surface Snow Amount (sea_ice_and_surface_snow_amount)

Record Label : sea_ice_and_surface_snow_amount

Record Title : Sea Ice And Surface Snow Amount

CF Standard Name : sea_ice_and_surface_snow_amount

Record Description : "Amount" means mass per unit area. Surface amount refers to the amount on the ground, excluding that on the plant or vegetation canopy. The phrase "surface_snow" means snow lying on the surface. "Sea ice" means all ice floating in the sea which has formed from freezing sea water, rather than by other processes such as calving of land ice to form icebergs.

Canonical Units : kg m-2