Record Label : tendency_of_sea_ice_amount_due_to_sea_ice_thermodynamics
Record Title : Tendency of Sea Ice Amount due to Sea Ice Thermodynamics
CF Standard Name : tendency_of_sea_ice_amount_due_to_sea_ice_thermodynamics
Record Description : The phrase "tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. "Amount" means mass per unit area. "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. 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. "Sea ice thermodynamics" refers to the addition or subtraction of mass due to surface and basal fluxes, i.e., due to melting, sublimation and fusion.
Canonical Units : kg m-2 s-1
MIP Variable : Sea-Ice Mass Change from Thermodynamics