Concept
Difference between sea surface temperature and air temperature
| URI | http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/standard_name/difference_between_sea_surface_temperature_and_air_temperature/ | ||
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| Within Vocab | Climate and Forecast Standard Names | ||
| Definition | Sea surface temperature is usually abbreviated as "SST". It is the temperature of sea water near the surface (including the part under sea-ice, if any), not the skin or interface temperature, whose standard names are sea_surface_skin_temperature and surface_temperature, respectively. For the temperature of sea water at a particular depth or layer, a data variable of "sea_water_temperature" with a vertical coordinate axis should be used. Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. 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). | ||
| Date | None | ||
| Note | accepted | ||
| modified | 2024-05-20 20:39:49.0 | ||
| Exact Match | http://mmisw.org/ont/cf/parameter/difference_between_sea_surface_temperature_and_air_temperature | ||
| http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/standard_name/difference_between_sea_surface_temperature_and_air_temperature/ | |||
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| Related | P06:UPKA |
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