WMO OSCAR | Details for Variable: Cloud ice

Variable: Cloud ice

Definition

Full name	Cloud ice
Definition	3D field of atmospheric water in the solid phase (precipitating or not).
Measuring Units	g/kg	Uncertainty Units	%
Horizontal Res Units	km	Vertical Res Units	km
Stability Units	% (Stability /decade)

Comment:
Last modified:	2011-10-13
Applied in OSCAR/Space Gap Analysis:	Yes

Classification

Domain: Atmosphere
- Sub-domain: Clouds and precipitations
  - Variable: Cloud ice
    - Measured in Layers:
      - MUS
      - UTLS
      - FT
      - PBL
      - M

Cross-cutting themes:

Earth System Application Categories and its related Application Areas:
- 2. Atmospheric Applications
- 2. Atmospheric Applications
- 2. Atmospheric Applications
Unknown:
- GEWEX (deprecated)

Requirements defined for Cloud ice (9)

This tables shows all related requirements. For more operations/filtering, please consult the full list of Requirements
Note: In reading the values, goal is marked blue, breakthrough green, threshold orange
Application-dependent Technical Priority (ATP) Magenta and Relative priority of the attributes Red

Id	Variable	Layer	App Area	Uncertainty	Hor Res	Ver Res	Obs Cyc	Timeliness	Coverage	Conf Level	Val Date	Source
17	Cloud ice	FT PBL	2.8 Aeronautical Meteorology	10 % 15 % 25 %	50 km 70 km 100 km	0.15 km 0.3 km 0.6 km	60 min 90 min 3 h	60 min 90 min 2 h	Global	firm	2000-06-23	ET ODRRGOS
207	Cloud ice	MUS M	GEWEX (deprecated)	5 % 10 % 20 %	50 km 100 km 250 km		3 h 6 h 12 h	30 d 45 d 60 d	Global	tentative	1998-10-29	WCRP
208	Cloud ice	FT	GEWEX (deprecated)	5 % 10 % 20 %	50 km 100 km 250 km		3 h 6 h 12 h	30 d 45 d 60 d	Global	tentative	1998-10-29	WCRP
209	Cloud ice	UTLS	GEWEX (deprecated)	5 % 10 % 20 %	50 km 100 km 250 km		3 h 6 h 12 h	30 d 45 d 60 d	Global	tentative	1998-10-29	WCRP
210	Cloud ice	PBL	GEWEX (deprecated)	5 % 10 % 20 %	50 km 100 km 250 km		3 h 5 h 12 h	30 d 45 d 60 d	Global	tentative	1998-10-29	WCRP
261	Cloud ice	FT	2.1 Global Numerical Weather Prediction and Real-time Monitoring	20 % 50 % 100 %	5 km 15 km 50 km	0.2 km 1 km 2 km	60 min 3 h 12 h	6 min 30 min 6 h	Global	reasonable	2009-02-10	John Eyre
262	Cloud ice	PBL	2.1 Global Numerical Weather Prediction and Real-time Monitoring	20 % 50 % 100 %	5 km 15 km 50 km	0.2 km 1 km 2 km	60 min 3 h 12 h	6 min 30 min 6 h	Global	reasonable	2009-02-10	John Eyre
345	Cloud ice	FT	2.2 High-Resolution Numerical Weather Prediction	5 % 8 % 20 %	0.5 km 2 km 10 km	0.1 km 0.17 km 0.5 km	15 min 60 min 3 h	15 min 30 min 2 h	Global	firm	2014-03-12	T Montmerle
346	Cloud ice	PBL	2.2 High-Resolution Numerical Weather Prediction	5 % 8 % 20 %	0.5 km 2 km 10 km	0.1 km 0.17 km 0.5 km	15 min 60 min 3 h	15 min 30 min 2 h	Global	firm	2011-07-28	T Montmerle