ocean_meridional_overturning_mass_streamfunction
completeCreated: Jan. 17, 2018
Proposer: Alison Pamment
Proposed Date: 2018-01-17
CMIP6 - OMIP. Update definition to change "bolus" to "parameterized eddy".
Change Date: Jan. 17, 2018, 2:52 p.m.
Term: ocean_meridional_overturning_mass_streamfunction
Unit: kg s-1
Unit ref:
AMIP:
GRIB:
In contrast to the quantity with standard name ocean_meridional_overturning_streamfunction, this quantity includes all physical processes, resolved or parameterized, that impact mass/volume transport. Thus it includes contributions from the bolus and Gent-McWilliams velocity.
Change Date: Jan. 17, 2018, 2:53 p.m.
Term: ocean_meridional_overturning_mass_streamfunction
Unit: kg s-1
Unit ref: KGPS
AMIP:
GRIB:
In contrast to the quantity with standard name ocean_meridional_overturning_streamfunction, this quantity includes all physical processes, resolved or parameterized, that impact mass/volume transport. Thus it includes contributions from the parameterized eddy velocity.