GRIB-API definition
| Name: | Geopotential Height | Abbreviation: | gh | Unit: | gpm | paramId: | 156 |
UERRA details
| Definition | The height of a given pressure level in the atmosphere in units proportional to the potential energy of unit mass (geopotential) at this pressure level relative to the sea level. |
| Validity | instantaneous |
| Comment |
WMO GRIB2 definition
| Parameter | ||
|---|---|---|
| Discipline | 0 | meteorological products |
| Parameter category | 3 | mass |
| Parameter number | 5 | geopotential height |
| Level | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type of first fixed surface | 100 | pressure level |
| Scale factor of first fixed surface | 0 | |
| Scaled value of first fixed surface | value in Pa | |
| Type of second fixed surface | all bits to 1 | missing |
| Scale factor of second fixed surface | all bits to 1 | missing |
| Scaled value of second fixed surface | all bits to 1 | missing |