air_pressure_at_top_of_atmosphere_model
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Created: Feb. 8, 2017
Proposer: Jonathan Gregory
Proposed Date: 2015-09-06
CF trac ticket 143 has been agreed.
Change Date: Feb. 8, 2017, 4:02 p.m.
Term: air_pressure_at_top_of_atmosphere_model
Unit: Pa
Unit ref: PASX
AMIP:
GRIB:
Change Date: May 18, 2017, 9:26 a.m.
Term: air_pressure_at_top_of_atmosphere_model
Unit: Pa
Unit ref: PASX
AMIP:
GRIB:
"Top of atmosphere model" means the upper boundary of the top layer of an atmosphere model.
Change Date: July 5, 2017, 6:58 p.m.
Term: air_pressure_at_top_of_atmosphere_model
Unit: Pa
Unit ref: PASX
AMIP:
GRIB:
"Top of atmosphere model" means the upper boundary of the top layer of an atmosphere model. Air pressure is the force per unit area which would be exerted when the moving gas molecules of which the air is composed strike a theoretical surface of any orientation.