Concept
difference_between_sea_surface_temperature_and_air_temperature
URI | http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P07/current/TKE9ARMV/ | |
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Within Vocab | Climate and Forecast Standard Names | |
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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 | 2024-05-20T20:39:49 | |
Identifier | SDN:P07::TKE9ARMV | |
Note | accepted | |
Has Current Version | 2 | |
Version | 1 | |
version | 2 | |
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