GRIB-API definition

Name:Geopotential HeightAbbreviation:ghUnit:gpmparamId:156

 

UERRA details

DefinitionThe 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.
Validityinstantaneous
Comment 

 

WMO GRIB2 definition

Parameter
Discipline0meteorological products
Parameter category3mass
Parameter number5
geopotential height
Level
Type of first fixed surface100pressure level
Scale factor of first fixed surface0 
Scaled value of first fixed surfacevalue in Pa 
Type of second fixed surfaceall bits to 1missing
Scale factor of second fixed surfaceall bits to 1missing
Scaled value of second fixed surfaceall bits to 1missing