GRIB-API definition
Name | Surface latent heat flux | Abbreviation | slhf | Unit | J m-2 | paramId: | 147 |
UERRA details
Definition | Exchange of latent heat (due to phase transitions: evaporation, condensation) with the surface through turbulent diffusion. |
Validity | accumulated (from the beginning of the forecast) |
Comment | The flux sign convention is positive downwards. |
WMO GRIB2 definition
Parameter | ||
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Discipline | 0 | meteorological products |
Parameter category | 0 | temperature |
Parameter number | 10 | latent heat net flux |
Type of statistical processing | 1 | accumulated |
Level | ||
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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 |