mass_concentration_of_prokaryotes_expressed_as_carbon_in_sea_water

under discussion
Created: 5 May 2023
Proposer: Gunnar Bratbak
Proposed Date: 2022-04-04
Change Date: 5 May 2023, 12:07 p.m.
Term: mass_concentration_of_prokaryotes_expressed_as_carbon_in_sea_water
Unit: Kg m-3
Unit ref: UKMC
AMIP:
GRIB:
"Mass concentration" means mass per unit volume and is used in the construction "mass_concentration_of_X_in_Y", where X is a material constituent of Y. A chemical species or biological group denoted by X may be described by a single term such as "nitrogen" or a phrase such as "nox_expressed_as_nitrogen". The phrase "expressed_as" is used in the construction A_expressed_as_B, where B is a chemical constituent of A. It means that the quantity indicated by the standard name is calculated solely with respect to the B contained in A, neglecting all other chemical constituents of A. "Prokaryotes” are all Bacteria and Archaea excluding photosynthetic cyanobacteria such as Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus or other separately named components of the procaryotic population.