temperature_in_ground

The temperature at any given depth (or in a layer) below the surface of the ground, excluding surficial snow and ice (but not permafrost or soil). For temperatures in surface lying snow and ice, the more specific standard names temperature_in_surface_snow and land_ice_temperature should be used. For temperatures measured or modelled specifically for the soil layer (the near-surface layer where plants sink their roots) the standard name soil_temperature should be used. It is strongly recommended that a variable with this standard name should have a units_metadata attribute, with one of the values "on-scale" or "difference", whichever is appropriate for the data, because it is essential to know whether the temperature is on-scale (meaning relative to the origin of the scale indicated by the units) or refers to temperature differences (implying that the origin of the temperature scale is irrevelant), in order to convert the units correctly (cf. https://cfconventions.org/cf-conventions/cf-conventions.html#temperature-units).
  • List containing this term version: CF (85) CF (86)
  • Proposls with this term version:
  • Proposal: Jonathan Gregory & Lars Barring [Classification of existing standard name]

  • Aliases for this term

    solid_earth_subsurface_temperature

    "solid_earth_subsurface_temperature" is the temperature at any depth (or in a layer) of the "solid" earth, excluding surficial snow and ice (but not permafrost). For surface snow and ice, the more specific standard names, "temperature_in_surface_snow" and "land_ice_temperature", should be used rather than "solid_earth_subsurface_temperature".
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  • Proposal: Andreas Wiesmann [Standard names: new proposals in the con]
  • solid_earth_subsurface_temperature

    The "solid_earth_subsurface_temperature" is the temperature at any depth (or in a layer) of the "solid" earth, excluding surficial snow and ice (but not permafrost). For surface snow and ice, the more specific standard names, "temperature_in_surface_snow" and "land_ice_temperature", should be used rather than "solid_earth_subsurface_temperature".
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  • Proposal: Andreas Wiesmann [Standard names: new proposals in the con]
  • solid_earth_subsurface_temperature

    The quantity with standard name solid_earth_subsurface_temperature is the temperature at any depth (or in a layer) of the "solid" earth, excluding surficial snow and ice (but not permafrost or soil). For temperatures in surface snow and ice, the more specific standard names temperature_in_surface_snow and land_ice_temperature should be used. For temperatures measured or modelled specifically in the soil layer (the near-surface layer where plants sink their roots) the standard name soil_temperature should be used.
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  • Proposal: Andreas Wiesmann [Standard names: new proposals in the con]
  • solid_earth_subsurface_temperature

    The quantity with standard name solid_earth_subsurface_temperature is the temperature at any depth (or in a layer) of the "solid" earth, excluding surficial snow and ice (but not permafrost or soil). For temperatures in surface lying snow and ice, the more specific standard names temperature_in_surface_snow and land_ice_temperature should be used. For temperatures measured or modelled specifically in the soil layer (the near-surface layer where plants sink their roots) the standard name soil_temperature should be used.
  • List containing this term version: CF (73) CF (74) CF (75) CF (76) CF (77)
  • Proposls with this term version:
  • Proposal: Andreas Wiesmann [Standard names: new proposals in the con]
  • Proposal: Nick Brown & Michel Paquette [Standard names: improved permafrost char]

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