Record Label : tendency_of_sea_ice_area_fraction_due_to_thermodynamics
Record Title : Tendency of Sea Ice Area Fraction due to Thermodynamics
CF Standard Name : tendency_of_sea_ice_area_fraction_due_to_thermodynamics
Record Description : The phrase "tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. "Area fraction" is the fraction of a grid cell's horizontal area that has some characteristic of interest. It is evaluated as the area of interest divided by the grid cell area. Sea ice area fraction is area of the sea surface occupied by sea ice. It is also called "sea ice concentration". "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.
Canonical Units : s-1
MIP Variable : Sea-Ice Area Percentage Tendency Due to Thermodynamics