1.8 CF Standard Names: Sea Ice Surface Temperature (sea_ice_surface_temperature)

Record Label : sea_ice_surface_temperature

Record Title : Sea Ice Surface Temperature

CF Standard Name : sea_ice_surface_temperature

Record Description : The surface temperature is the (skin) temperature at the interface, not the bulk temperature of the medium above or below. "Sea ice surface temperature" is the temperature that exists at the interface of sea ice and an overlying medium which may be air or snow. In areas of snow covered sea ice, sea_ice_surface_temperature is not the same as the quantity with standard name surface_temperature. "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 : K

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