1.8 CF Standard Names: Water Potential Evaporation Amount (water_potential_evaporation_amount)

Record Label : water_potential_evaporation_amount

Record Title : Water Potential Evaporation Amount

CF Standard Name : water_potential_evaporation_amount

Record Description : "Amount" means mass per unit area. "Water" means water in all phases. Evaporation is the conversion of liquid or solid into vapor. (The conversion of solid alone into vapor is called "sublimation".) Potential evaporation is the rate at which evaporation would take place under unaltered ambient conditions (temperature, relative humidity, wind, etc.) if the supply of water were unlimited, as if from an open water surface.

Canonical Units : kg m-2