1.2 MIP Variable: Change in Surface Water Storage (dsw)

Record Label : dsw

Record Title : Change in Surface Water Storage

CF Standard Name : change_over_time_in_land_water_amount

Units of Measure : kg m-2

Record Description : The phrase "land_water_amount", often known as "Terrestrial Water Storage", includes: surface liquid water (water in rivers, wetlands, lakes, reservoirs, rainfall intercepted by the canopy); surface ice and snow (glaciers, ice caps, grounded ice sheets not displacing sea water, river and lake ice, other surface ice such as frozen flood water, snow lying on the surface and intercepted by the canopy); subsurface water (liquid and frozen soil water, groundwater).

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Notes on Provenance of Variable Specifications : CMIP6 endorsement [LS3MIP]

Record Identifier : 590f182e-9e49-11e5-803c-0d0b866b59f3

MIP Defining this Variable : LS3MIP

Link to Units section : kgpm2

CMOR Variable : Change in Surface Water Storage