Record Label : tendency_of_land_ice_mass_due_to_surface_mass_balance
Record Title : Tendency of Land Ice Mass due to Surface Mass Balance
CF Standard Name : tendency_of_land_ice_mass_due_to_surface_mass_balance
Record Description : "Land ice" means glaciers, ice-caps and ice-sheets resting on bedrock and also includes ice-shelves. The phrase "tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. 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. "Mass balance" means the net rate at which ice is added. A negative value means loss of ice. The tendency in ice mass due to the surface mass balance is the spatial integral of the quantity with standard name land_ice_surface_specific_mass_balance_flux. The horizontal domain over which the quantity is described by the associated coordinate variables and coordinate bounds or by a string valued coordinate variable or scalar coordinate variable with a standard name of "region".
Canonical Units : kg s-1
MIP Variable : Total Surface Mass Balance Flux