Record Label : pathetao
Record Title : Sea Water Additional Potential Temperature
CF Standard Name : sea_water_added_potential_temperature
Units of Measure : degC
Record Description : The quantity with standard name sea_water_added_potential_temperature is a passive tracer in an ocean model whose surface flux does not come from the atmosphere but is imposed externally upon the simulated climate system. The surface flux is expressed as a heat flux and converted to a passive tracer increment as if it were a heat flux being added to potential temperature. The passive tracer is transported within the ocean as if it were potential temperature. The passive tracer is zero in the control climate of the model. The passive tracer records added heat, as described for the CMIP6 FAFMIP experiment (doi:10.5194/gmd-9-3993-2016), following earlier ideas. Potential temperature is the temperature a parcel of air or sea water would have if moved adiabatically to sea level pressure.
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Notes on Provenance of Variable Specifications : CMIP6 endorsement [FAFMIP]
Record Identifier : 590df00c-9e49-11e5-803c-0d0b866b59f3
MIP Defining this Variable : FAFMIP
Link to Units section : degc
CMOR Variable : Sea Water Additional Potential Temperature