toa_incoming_shortwave_flux_per_unit_wavelength
rejectedCreated: March 22, 2016
Proposer: Daniel Feldman / Robert Pincus
Proposed Date: 2015-07-17
CMIP6 - RFMIP. 8. CMIP6 short name sol. It was agreed to use the existing name toa_incoming_shortwave_flux for this quantity.
Change Date: March 22, 2016, 10:35 a.m.
Term: toa_incoming_shortwave_flux_per_unit_wavelength
Unit: W m-2
Unit ref: UFAA
AMIP:
GRIB:
Spectrally-resolved top-of-atmosphere downwelling shortwave flux, in the interests of specifying the top-of-atmosphere boundary condition for the line-by-line radiative transfer benchmark calculations. (In our original request, this variable was specified by the Short name "sol".)
Change Date: May 31, 2018, 5:15 p.m.
Term: toa_incoming_shortwave_flux_per_unit_wavelength
Unit: W m-2 m-1
Unit ref: UFAA
AMIP:
GRIB:
The abbreviation "toa" means top of atmosphere. The term "shortwave" means shortwave radiation. The TOA incoming shortwave flux is the radiative flux from the sun i.e. the "downwelling" TOA shortwave flux. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. A coordinate variable for radiation wavelength should be given the standard name radiation_wavelength.