WMO OSCAR | Details for Variable: Lake area

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Variable: Lake area

Definition

Full name	Lake area
Definition	Aera extent of the surface of a lake
Measuring Units	m²	Uncertainty Units	m²
Horizontal Res Units	m	Vertical Res Units
Stability Units	m² (Stability /decade)

Comment:
Last modified:
Applied in OSCAR/Space Gap Analysis:	No

Classification

Domain: Terrestrial
- Sub-domain: Land surface
  - Variable: Lake area
    - Measured in Layers:
      - Land surface

Cross-cutting themes:

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

Requirements defined for Lake area (2)

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
669	Lake area	Land surface	Climate-TOPC (deprecated)						250 m 550 m 2500 m		30 d 45 d 90 d	30 d 45 d 90 d	Global land	firm	2007-07-19	TOPC	Lake area
819	Lake area	Land surface	2.5 Atmospheric Climate Monitoring						20 m		24 h		Global	reasonable	2019-09-30	GCOS-200: The Global Observing System for Climate: Implementation Needs (Published 2016)	Requirements in the GCOS-200 IP, Annex A, are only specified at the goal level. Requirements for uncertainty and stability in the GCOS IP are specified in different units than in OSCAR/requirement