CANONICAL MARINE PARAMETER
Precipitation
Liquid-equivalent water deposited from the atmosphere over an accumulation interval.
- Canonical key
precipitation- Parameter family
- Marine atmosphere
- Scientific category
- Atmosphere
- Canonical unit
- kg m-2 or mm
- CF standard name / vocabulary
- lwe_thickness_of_precipitation_amount
- Vertical domain
- surface
- Required qualifiers
- accumulation interval
- Merge policy
- CONDITIONAL
- Mapped sources
- 4
Marine observation sources
The following registered sources have indexed metadata mappings for this parameter. Consult the registry details for each mapping's verification and review status.
- OceanSITES OceanSITES / GDACs
- Copernicus Marine Global In-Situ Copernicus Marine Service
- PANGAEA Alfred Wegener Institute / MARUM
- NOAA CoastWatch NOAA NESDIS / CoastWatch