Record Label : surface_upward_mass_flux_of_carbon_due_to_heterotrophic_respiration_in_litter
Record Title : Surface Upward Mass Flux of Carbon due to Heterotrophic Respiration in Litter
CF Standard Name : surface_upward_mass_flux_of_carbon_due_to_heterotrophic_respiration_in_litter
Record Description : "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. The specification of a physical process by the phrase "due_to_" process means that the quantity named is a single term in a sum of terms which together compose the general quantity named by omitting the phrase. "Litter" is dead plant material in or above the soil. Heterotrophic respiration is respiration by heterotrophs ("consumers"), which are organisms (including animals and decomposers) that consume other organisms or dead organic material, rather than synthesising organic material from inorganic precursors using energy from the environment (especially sunlight) as autotrophs ("producers") do. Heterotrophic respiration goes on within both the soil and litter pools.
Canonical Units : kg m-2 s-1
MIP Variable : Carbon Mass Flux into Atmosphere Due to Heterotrophic Respiration from Litter on Land