Dear CF community, as a service to the scientific community, the CMIP6 Sea-Ice MIP suggests to save six integrated sea-ice quantities from CMIP6 model simulations. These are total sea-ice area, total sea-ice volume and total sea-ice extent in the Northern and in the Southern hemisphere.
To indicate that we ask for integrated quantities in a specific region, we propose to add the following new variable names, since the existing variables such as "sea_ice_volume" only describe the sea-ice state within individual grid cells: 1.sea_ice_volume_in_region total volume of sea ice in a region 2.sea_ice_area_in_region total area of sea ice in a region 3.sea_ice_extent_in_region Total area of all grid cells that are covered by a minimum of a given area fraction [usually 15 %) of sea ice in a region We look forward to hearing your feedback, guidance and input on these suggestions. Thank you very much, Dirk Notz -- ---- Dr. Dirk Notz http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/~notz.dirk _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
