Climate and Forecast Standard Names
type: ConceptScheme
has top concept: land_ice_surface_melt_flux

land_ice_surface_melt_flux
type: Concept
source: cf-standard-name-table.html
definition: "Land ice" means glaciers, ice-caps and ice-sheets resting on bedrock and also includes ice-shelves. In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. The land_ice_surface_melt_flux is the loss of ice mass resulting from surface melting. For an area-average, the cell_methods attribute should be used to specify whether the average is over the area of the whole grid cell or the area of land ice only. There is also a standard name for the quantity surface_snow_and_ice_melt_flux.
in scheme: Climate and Forecast Standard Names
note: Mapping to be determined
top concept of: Climate and Forecast Standard Names