tendency_of_mass_fraction_of_stratiform_cloud_ice_in_air_due_to_cloud_aggregation

under discussion

Created: 12 Nov 2026

Proposer: chrisdane

Proposed Date: 2026-10-20

Standard names: ocean phytoplankton gross production, nitrogen assimilation, respiration, aggregation and DOC excretion

Change Date: 12 Nov 2026, 10:04 a.m.

tendency_of_mass_fraction_of_stratiform_cloud_ice_in_air_due_to_aggregation s-1 [PRSC] P07 id: CF12N757
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of X to the mass of Y (including X). A chemical species denoted by X may be described by a single term such as 'nitrogen' or a phrase such as 'nox_expressed_as_nitrogen'. Aggregation is the clumping together of frozen cloud particles to produce snowflakes. In an atmosphere model, stratiform cloud is that produced by large-scale convergence (not the convection schemes). The specification of a physical process by the phrase due_to_process means that the quantity named is a single term in a sum of terms which together compose the general quantity named by omitting the phrase. "tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time.

Change Date: 12 Nov 2026, 10:05 a.m.

tendency_of_mass_fraction_of_stratiform_cloud_ice_in_air_due_to_cloud_aggregation s-1 [PRSC]
Mass fraction is used in the construction mass_fraction_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. It means the ratio of the mass of X to the mass of Y (including X). A chemical species denoted by X may be described by a single term such as 'nitrogen' or a phrase such as 'nox_expressed_as_nitrogen'. Aggregation is the clumping together of frozen cloud particles to produce snowflakes. In an atmosphere model, stratiform cloud is that produced by large-scale convergence (not the convection schemes). The specification of a physical process by the phrase due_to_process means that the quantity named is a single term in a sum of terms which together compose the general quantity named by omitting the phrase. "tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time.