BackForward Variable: River discharge

Definition
Full name River discharge
Definition Volume of water flowing through a river per unit of time
Measuring Units m^3 . s^-1 Uncertainty Units m^3 . s^-1
Horizontal Res Units m Vertical Res Units
Stability Units m^3 . s^-1 (Stability /decade)

 

Comment:
Last modified: 2011-06-23
Applied in OSCAR/Space Gap Analysis: No
Classification
  • Domain: Terrestrial
    • Sub-domain: Land surface
      • Variable: River discharge
        • Measured in Layers:
          • Land surface
  • Cross-cutting themes:

Requirements defined for River discharge  (5)

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
676 River discharge Land surface Climate-TOPC (deprecated) 5 m^3 . s^-1
7 m^3 . s^-1
10 m^3 . s^-1
10 m
20 m
100 m
60 min
2 h
7 h
30 d
45 d
90 d
Global land reasonable 2007-07-19 TOPC
818 River discharge Land surface 2.5 Atmospheric Climate Monitoring 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