tendency_of_specific_humidity_due_to_stratiform_cloud_and_precipitation
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Created: July 9, 2015
Proposer: Mark Webb
Proposed Date: 2015-07-06
Change Date: July 9, 2015, 4:26 p.m.
Term: tendency_of_specific_humidity_due_to_stratiform_cloud_and_precipitation
Unit: s-1
Unit ref: PRSC
AMIP:
GRIB:
The specification of a physical process by the phrase due_to_process means that the quantity named is a single term in a sum of terms which together compose the general quantity named by omitting the phrase. "tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. "specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.
Change Date: March 16, 2018, 8:17 p.m.
Term: tendency_of_specific_humidity_due_to_stratiform_cloud_and_precipitation
Unit: s-1
Unit ref: PRSC
AMIP:
GRIB:
The phrase "tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. "Specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air. The specification of a physical process by the phrase "due_to_" process means that the quantity named is a single term in a sum of terms which together compose the general quantity named by omitting the phrase. A variable with the standard name of tendency_of_specific_humidity_due_to_stratiform_cloud_and_precipitation should contain the effects of all processes which convert stratiform clouds and precipitation to or from water vapor, including condensation (vapor to liquid), evaporation (liquid to vapor), deposition (vapor to ice) and sublimation (ice to vapor).
Change Date: March 16, 2018, 11:24 p.m.
Term: tendency_of_specific_humidity_due_to_stratiform_cloud_and_precipitation
Unit: s-1
Unit ref: PRSC
AMIP:
GRIB:
The phrase "tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. "Specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air. The specification of a physical process by the phrase "due_to_" process means that the quantity named is a single term in a sum of terms which together compose the general quantity named by omitting the phrase. A variable with the standard name of tendency_of_specific_humidity_due_to_stratiform_cloud_and_precipitation should contain the effects of all processes which convert stratiform clouds and precipitation to or from water vapor. In an atmosphere model, stratiform cloud is that produced by large-scale convergence (not the convection schemes).