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air_temperature_at_cloud_top

Concept · Climate and Forecast Standard Names · Draft

Terms

  • Preferred term, Draft

Definition

  • cloud_top refers to the top of the highest cloud. 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 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).@en

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      Created at
      07/05/2025, 6.06
      Modified at
      07/05/2025, 6.06
      URI
      http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P07/current/CFSN0025/