1.8 CF Standard Names: Tendency of Atmosphere Mass Content of Organic Acids due to Emission from Forest Fires (tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_organic_acids_due_to_emission_from_forest_fires)

Record Label : tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_organic_acids_due_to_emission_from_forest_fires

Record Title : Tendency of Atmosphere Mass Content of Organic Acids due to Emission from Forest Fires

CF Standard Name : tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_organic_acids_due_to_emission_from_forest_fires

Record Description : "tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. "Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "atmosphere content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. For the content between specified levels in the atmosphere, standard names including "content_of_atmosphere_layer" are used. The mass is the total mass of the molecules. 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. "Emission" means emission from a primary source located anywhere within the atmosphere, including at the lower boundary (i.e. earth's surface). "Emission" is a process entirely distinct from "re-emission" which is used in some standard names. An organic acid is an organic compound with acidic properties. The most common organic acids are the carboxylic acids, whose acidity is associated with their carboxyl group -COOH. In standard names "organic_acids" is the term used to describe the group of organic acid species that are represented within a given model. The list of individual species that are included in a quantity having a group chemical standard name can vary between models. Where possible, the data variable should be accompanied by a complete description of the species represented, for example, by using a comment attribute. The "forest fires" sector comprises the burning (natural and human-induced) of living or dead vegetation in forests. "Forest fires" is the term used in standard names to describe a collection of emission sources. A variable which has this value for the standard_name attribute should be accompanied by a comment attribute which lists the source categories and provides a reference to the categorization scheme, for example, "IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) source category 5 as defined in the 2006 IPCC guidelines for national greenhouse gas Inventories".

Canonical Units : kg m-2 s-1