GRIB-API definition
| Name | Liquid volumetric soil moisture (non-frozen) | Abbreviation | liqvsm | Unit | m3 m-3 | paramId: | 260210 |
UERRA details
| Definition | Liquid non-frozen volumetric soil moisture on a soil layer. |
| Validity | instantaneous |
| Comment | Sea points should be set as missing values. Soil layers must always start from 1 (0 soil level is the surface by default which is not encoded). |
WMO GRIB2 definition
| Parameter | ||
|---|---|---|
| Discipline | 2 | land surface products |
| Parameter category | 3 | soil products |
| Parameter number | 10 | liquid volumetric soil moisture (non-frozen) |
| Level | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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)
1 Comment
Richard Mladek
Regarding soil layers or levels which could be used please refer to the comment at Volumetric soil water
If this parameter only Meteo-France produces the soil layers could be defined as usually between appropriate levels below surface (without the need of the new soil layer type):