specific_heat_capacity_of_sea_water

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Created: March 17, 2016
Proposer: Jonathan Gregory / Stephen Griffies
Proposed Date: 2015-01-30
CMIP6 - OMIP
New standard names for OMIP: physics; proposed new ocean standard names to support CMIP6
Change Date: March 17, 2016, 5:13 p.m.
Term: specific_heat_capacity_of_sea_water
Unit: J kg-1 K-1
Unit ref: JKGK
AMIP:
GRIB:
Specific heat capacity of seawater, cpocean, which is used in ocean models to convert between model prognostic temperature (potential or conservative temperature) and model heat content.
Change Date: May 17, 2017, 10:06 a.m.
Term: specific_heat_capacity_of_sea_water
Unit: J kg-1 K-1
Unit ref: JKGK
AMIP:
GRIB:
The specific heat capacity of sea water, Cp(ocean), is used in ocean models to convert between model prognostic temperature (potential or conservative temperature) and model heat content.