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air_temperature_lapse_rate

Concept · Climate and Forecast Standard Names · Draft

Terms

  • Preferred term, Draft

Definition

  • Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. A lapse rate is the negative derivative of a quantity with respect to increasing height above the surface, or the (positive) derivative with respect to increasing depth. 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).@en

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      Organization
      • MSCR testers
      Created at
      07/05/2025, 6.06
      Modified at
      07/05/2025, 6.06
      URI
      http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P07/current/CFSN0026/