Change Date: April 12, 2018, 2:32 p.m.

Term: graupel_fall_flux

Unit: kg m-2 s-1

Unit ref: KSP2

AMIP:

GRIB:

Change Date: April 12, 2018, 2:33 p.m.

Term: graupel_fall_flux

Unit: kg m-2 s-1

Unit ref: KSP2

AMIP:

GRIB:

In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. Graupel consists of heavily rimed snow particles, often called snow pellets; often indistinguishable from very small soft hail except when the size convention that hail must have a diameter greater than 5 mm is adopted. Reference: American Meteorological Society Glossary http://glossary.ametsoc.org/wiki/Graupel.

Change Date: April 25, 2018, 1:33 a.m.

Term: graupel_fall_flux

Unit: kg m-2 s-1

Unit ref: KSP2

AMIP:

GRIB:

In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. Graupel consists of heavily rimed snow particles, often called snow pellets; often indistinguishable from very small soft hail except when the size convention that hail must have a diameter greater than 5 mm is adopted. Reference: American Meteorological Society Glossary http://glossary.ametsoc.org/wiki/Graupel. There are also separate standard names for hail. Standard names for "graupel_and_hail" should be used to describe data produced by models that do not distinguish between hail and graupel.