vegetation_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. "Vegetation" means any plants e.g. trees, shrubs, grass. The term "plants" refers to the kingdom of plants in the modern classification which excludes fungi. Plants are autotrophs i.e. "producers" of biomass using carbon obtained from carbon dioxide.

List containing this term version: CF (66) CF (67) CF (68) CF (69) CF (70) CF (71) CF (72) CF (73) CF (74) CF (75) CF (76) CF (77) CF (78) CF (79) CF (80) CF (81) CF (82) CF (83) CF (84) CF (85)

Proposls with this term version:

Proposal: Martin Juckes [Putting the units in a CF standard name:]

Proposal: Karl E. Taylor [Standard names: area fraction]

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