Term: land_ice_mass_not_displacing_sea_water

Unit: kg

Unit ref: KGXX

AMIP:

GRIB:

Long name: Land ice mass that does not displace sea water. The mass of land ice that does not displace sea water if removed, computed as the ice volume times density. It excludes ice shelves, and components of the grounded ice sheet that would not displace sea level (for example, in regions where the ice rests on a bedrock that sits below sea level).

Term: land_ice_mass_not_displacing_sea_water

Unit: kg

Unit ref: KGXX

AMIP:

GRIB:

The mass of land ice that does not displace sea water if removed, computed as the ice volume times density. It excludes ice shelves, and components of the grounded ice sheet that would not displace sea level (for example, in regions where the ice rests on a bedrock that sits below sea level).

Term: land_ice_mass_not_displacing_sea_water

Unit: kg

Unit ref: KGXX

AMIP:

GRIB:

The mass of land ice that does not displace sea water if removed, computed as the ice volume times density. It excludes ice shelves, and components of the grounded ice sheet that would not displace sea level (for example, in regions where the ice rests on a bedrock that sits below sea level). It's a globally integrated quantity like land_ice_mass.

Term: land_ice_mass_not_displacing_sea_water

Unit: kg

Unit ref: KGXX

AMIP:

GRIB:

"Land ice not displacing sea water" means land ice that would not alter sea level if the ice were converted to water and added to the ocean. It excludes ice shelves (and any other sort of floating ice) and it excludes a fraction of grounded ice-sheet mass equivalent to the mass of any sea water it displaces. It includes glaciers and a portion of grounded ice-sheet mass exceeding the mass of any sea water displaced. The quantity with standard name land_ice_mass_not_displacing_sea_water is the total mass integrated over an area of land ice. The geographical extent of the ice over which the mass was calculated should be described by providing bounds on the horizontal coordinate variable or scalar with the standard name of "region" supplied according to section 6.1.1 of the CF convention.