specific_heat_capacity_of_frozen_ground

Thermal capacity, or heat capacity, is the amount of heat energy required to increase the temperature of 1 kg of material by 1 K. It is a property of the material. It is strongly recommended that a variable with this standard name should have the attribute units_metadata="temperature: difference", meaning that it refers to temperature differences and implying that the origin of the temperature scale is irrelevant, because it is essential to know whether a temperature is on-scale or a difference 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: Nick Brown & Michel Paquette [Standard names: improved permafrost char]

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