Record Label : water_flux_into_sea_water_from_land_ice
Record Title : Water Flux Into Sea Water from Land Ice
CF Standard Name : water_flux_into_sea_water_from_land_ice
Record Description : "Land ice" means glaciers, ice-caps and ice-sheets resting on bedrock and also includes ice-shelves. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. The water flux into sea water from land ice is the freshwater entering the ocean as a result of runoff from the surface and base of the ice and melting from the ice shelf base and vertical ice front. For an area-average, the cell_methods attribute should be used to specify whether the average is over the area of the whole grid cell or the area of the ocean portion only.
Canonical Units : kg m-2 s-1
MIP Variable : Water Flux into Sea Water from Land Ice