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Variable:
Air Thickness
Definition
Full name
Air Thickness
Definition
Bemporad Luftmasse; expressed in mulptiples of air thickness "I", defined as the vertical thickness of the atmosphere at a pressure of 1000 hPa
Measuring Units
m
Uncertainty Units
m
Horizontal Res Units
km
Vertical Res Units
km
Stability Units
m (Stability /decade)
Comment:
Relevant for direct and diffuse solar radiation observations (Actinometric Observations); Recommended by CCl Toronto 1947, Rec. 5; adopted by IMO-71 (CD 1947)
Last modified:
2024-08-21
Applied in OSCAR/Space Gap Analysis:
No
Classification
Domain: Atmosphere
Sub-domain: Basic atmospheric
Earth System Application Categories and its related Application Areas:
2. Atmospheric Applications
Requirements defined for Air Thickness (1)
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
ATP
Uncertainty
Layer/s Quality
Coverage Quality
Stability / decade
Hor Res
Ver Res
Obs Cyc
Timeliness
Coverage
Conf Level
Val Date
Source
General Comment
Application Area Comment
Horizontal Coverage Comment
Observation Comment
Performance Comment
1079
Air Thickness
TC
2.5 Atmospheric Climate Monitoring
0.5
Global
reasonable
2024-08-22
J van der Meulen
required for Actinometric data