1.8 CF Standard Names: Sea Ice Melt Pond Thickness (sea_ice_melt_pond_thickness)

Record Label : sea_ice_melt_pond_thickness

Record Title : Sea Ice Melt Pond Thickness

CF Standard Name : sea_ice_melt_pond_thickness

Record Description : "Thickness" means the vertical extent of a layer. Melt ponds occur on top of the existing sea ice. "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 : m

MIP Variable : Meltpond Mass per Unit Area (as Depth)