air_pressure_at_cloud_top

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Created: July 6, 2017

Proposer: Alison Pamment

Proposed Date: 2017-07-04

Standard names for CF trac ticket #143

Change Date: July 6, 2017, 12:34 a.m.

Term: air_pressure_at_cloud_top

Unit: Pa

Unit ref:

AMIP:

GRIB:

cloud_top refers to the top of the highest cloud.

Change Date: July 6, 2017, 12:35 a.m.

Term: air_pressure_at_cloud_top

Unit: Pa

Unit ref: PASX

AMIP:

GRIB:

Change Date: July 6, 2017, 12:36 a.m.

Term: air_pressure_at_cloud_top

Unit: Pa

Unit ref: PASX

AMIP:

GRIB:

The phrase "cloud_top" refers to the top of the highest cloud. 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.