water_flux_into_sea_water_from_sea_ice

rejected

Created: Aug. 4, 2016

Proposer: Dirk Notz

Proposed Date: 2016-07-19

CMIP6 - SIMIP. 1.20. Agreed agreed (http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/pipermail/cf-metadata/2016/058902.html) that this quantity can be described using the existing name water_flux_into_sea_water_due_to_sea_ice_thermodynamics.

CMIP6 Sea Ice MIP: General variables

Change Date: Aug. 4, 2016, 12:36 p.m.

Term: water_flux_into_sea_water_from_sea_ice

Unit: kg m-2 s-1

Unit ref: KSP2

AMIP:

GRIB:

Total flux of fresh water from water into sea ice divided by grid-cell area; This flux is negative during ice growth (liquid water mass decreases, hence upward flux of freshwater), positive during ice melt (liquid water mass increases, hence downward flux of freshwater).