graupel_fall_amount

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Created: April 20, 2016
Proposer: Heiko Klein
Proposed Date: 2014-05-22
Request for new standard-names: graupel, wind_gust, inland_water_area_fraction
Change Date: April 21, 2016, 1:11 a.m.
Term: graupelfall_amount
Unit: kg m-2
Unit ref: KMP2
AMIP:
GRIB:
"Amount" means mass per unit area.
Change Date: Nov. 27, 2017, 9:54 p.m.
Term: graupel_fall_amount
Unit: kg m-2
Unit ref: KMP2
AMIP:
GRIB:
"Amount" means mass per unit area. Graupel consists of heavily rimed snow particles, often called snow pellets; often indistinguishable from very small soft hail except for the size convention that hail must have a diameter greater than 5 mm. Reference: American Meteorological Society Glossary http://glossary.ametsoc.org/wiki/Graupel.