Sea ice Cover
ecCodes definition
| Name: |
| Sea ice area fraction | Abbreviation: |
| ci | Unit: |
Sea ice Cover
| (0 - 1) | paramId: | 31 |
S2S details
| Definition | Proportion of ice covering a water grid box. The values are between 0 (sea) and 1 (ice). |
| Validity | Daily |
| averaged | |
| Comment | Computed from instantaneous values at 00, 06, 12 and |
| 18Z - Land points should be set as missing values. |
WMO GRIB2 definition
| Parameter |
|---|
| Discipline | = 10 | Oceanographic products |
| Parameter Category | = 2 |
| Ice |
| Parameter Number | = 0 |
| Ice cover |
| Level | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type of first fixed surface | = | |
| 1 | Ground or water surface |
| Scale factor of first |
| fixed surface | = |
| all bits to 1 | Missing |
| Scaled value |
| of first fixed surface | = |
| all bits to 1 | Missing |
| 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 |