specific_heat_capacity_of_sea_water

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Created: 17 Mar 2016

Proposer: Jonathan Gregory / Stephen Griffies

Proposed Date: 2015-01-30

CMIP6 - OMIP

New standard names for OMIP: physics; proposed new ocean standard names to support CMIP6

Change Date: 17 Mar 2016, 5:13 p.m.

specific_heat_capacity_of_sea_water J kg-1 K-1 [JKGK]
Specific heat capacity of seawater, cpocean, which is used in ocean models to convert between model prognostic temperature (potential or conservative temperature) and model heat content.

Change Date: 17 May 2017, 11:06 a.m.

specific_heat_capacity_of_sea_water J kg-1 K-1 [JKGK] P07 id: N0XT6JHS
The specific heat capacity of sea water, Cp(ocean), is used in ocean models to convert between model prognostic temperature (potential or conservative temperature) and model heat content.