Name | Wilting point | Abbreviation | wilt | Unit | kg m-3 | paramId | 228171 |
Definition | Soil water content at which plants wilt and can no longer recover. |
Validity | instantaneous |
Comment | It is an auxiliary field which should be supplied with the field Volumetric soil water. It should be archived with the same frequency as the static fields. |
WMO GRIB2 definition
Parameter | ||
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Discipline | 2 | land surface products |
Parameter category | 0 | vegetation/biomass |
Parameter number | 26 | Wilting point |
Definition for soil levels 1...X:
Level | ||
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Type of first fixed surface | 151 | soil level** |
Scale factor of first fixed surface | 0 | |
Scaled value of first fixed surface | 1/2/3/.../X | n for the nth soil level |
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 |
Definition for soil layers 1...X:
Level | ||
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Type of first fixed surface | 151 | soil level** |
Scale factor of first fixed surface | 0 | |
Scaled value of first fixed surface | 0/1/2/3/.../X-1 | n-1 for the nth soil layer |
Type of second fixed surface | 151 | soil level* |
Scale factor of second fixed surface | 0 | |
Scaled value of second fixed surface | 1/2/3/.../X | n for the nth soil layer |
**newly approved level type (WMO release in May 2016)