Register: Fixed surface types and units
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Code-table 4.5 - Fixed surface types and units.
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Name | Notation | Description | Types | Status |
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Ground or water surface | 1 | Ground or water surface | Concept | stable |
Cloud base level | 2 | Cloud base level | Concept | stable |
Level of cloud tops | 3 | Level of cloud tops | Concept | stable |
Level of 0°C isotherm | 4 | Level of 0°C isotherm | Concept | stable |
Level of adiabatic condensation lifted from the surface | 5 | Level of adiabatic condensation lifted from the surface | Concept | stable |
Maximum wind level | 6 | Maximum wind level | Concept | stable |
Tropopause | 7 | Tropopause | Concept | stable |
Nominal top of the atmosphere | 8 | Nominal top of the atmosphere | Concept | stable |
Sea bottom | 9 | Sea bottom | Concept | stable |
Entire atmosphere | 10 | Entire atmosphere | Concept | stable |
Cumulonimbus (CB) base | 11 | Cumulonimbus (CB) base | Concept | stable |
Cumulonimbus (CB) top | 12 | Cumulonimbus (CB) top | Concept | stable |
Isothermal level | 20 | Isothermal level | Concept | stable |
Isobaric surface | 100 | Isobaric surface | Concept | stable |
Mean sea level | 101 | Mean sea level | Concept | stable |
Specific altitude above mean sea level | 102 | Specific altitude above mean sea level | Concept | stable |
Specified height level above ground | 103 | Specified height level above ground | Concept | stable |
Sigma level | 104 | Sigma level | Concept | stable |
Hybrid level | 105 | Hybrid level | Concept | stable |
Depth below land surface | 106 | Depth below land surface | Concept | stable |
Isentropic (theta) level | 107 | Isentropic (theta) level | Concept | stable |
Level at specified pressure difference from ground to level | 108 | Level at specified pressure difference from ground to level | Concept | stable |
Potential vorticity surface | 109 | Potential vorticity surface | Concept | stable |
Eta level | 111 | Eta level | Concept | stable |
Logarithmic hybrid level | 113 | Logarithmic hybrid level | Concept | stable |
Snow level | 114 | Snow level | Concept | stable |
Mixed layer depth | 117 | Mixed layer depth | Concept | stable |
Hybrid height level | 118 | Hybrid height level | Concept | stable |
Hybrid pressure level | 119 | Hybrid pressure level | Concept | stable |
Generalized vertical height coordinate | 150 | Generalized vertical height coordinate | Concept | stable |
Depth below sea level | 160 | Depth below sea level | Concept | stable |
Depth below water surface | 161 | Depth below water surface | Concept | stable |
Lake or river bottom | 162 | Lake or river bottom | Concept | stable |
Bottom of sediment layer | 163 | Bottom of sediment layer | Concept | stable |
Bottom of thermally active sediment layer | 164 | Bottom of thermally active sediment layer | Concept | stable |
Bottom of sediment layer penetrated by thermal wave | 165 | Bottom of sediment layer penetrated by thermal wave | Concept | stable |
Mixing layer | 166 | Mixing layer | Concept | stable |
Bottom of root zone | 167 | Bottom of root zone | Concept | stable |
Missing | 255 | Missing | Concept | stable |