1.8 CF Standard Names: Upward Eliassen Palm Flux in Air (upward_eliassen_palm_flux_in_air)

Record Label : upward_eliassen_palm_flux_in_air

Record Title : Upward Eliassen Palm Flux in Air

CF Standard Name : upward_eliassen_palm_flux_in_air

Record Description : "Eliassen Palm flux" is a widely used vector in the meridional plane, and the divergence of this flux appears as a forcing in the Transformed Eulerian mean formulation of the zonal mean zonal wind equation. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward).

Canonical Units : m3 s-2

MIP Variable : Upward Component of the Eliassen-Palm Flux