floating_ice_shelf_area_fraction

"Area fraction" is the fraction of a grid cell's horizontal area that has some characteristic of interest. It is evaluated as the area of interest divided by the grid cell area. It may be expressed as a fraction, a percentage, or any other dimensionless representation of a fraction. A "floating ice shelf", sometimes called a "floating ice sheet", indicates where an ice sheet extending from a land area flows over sea water.
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  • Proposal: Martin Juckes [Putting the units in a CF standard name:]
  • Proposal: Karl E. Taylor [Standard names: area fraction]

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    floating_ice_sheet_area_fraction

    Long name: Floating Ice Sheet Area Fraction. Fraction of grid cell covered by ice sheet flowing over seawater (also called ice shelf). Note land_ice_area_fraction already exist, hence the suggestion to add grounded_ice_sheet_area_fraction and floating_ice_sheet_area_fraction: These could also use instead the existing name "area_fraction", with a coordinate variable or scalar coordinate variable of "area_type" and add new entries to the area_type table (http://cfconventions.org/Data/area-type-table/current/build/area-type-table.html). Alison suggested that this is discussed on list.
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  • Proposal: Sophie Nowicki [additional standard name for ISMIP6; sta]

    • floating_ice_sheet_area_fraction

    "X_area_fraction" means the fraction of horizontal area occupied by X. A "floating ice sheet", sometimes called an "ice shelf", indicates where the ice sheet is flowing over sea water.
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  • Proposal: Sophie Nowicki [additional standard name for ISMIP6; sta]
  • Proposal: Jonathan Gregory [additional standard name for ISMIP6; sta]

    • This term is not aliased.