GRIB-API definition
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 |