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Definition | The land-sea mask is a field that contains, for every grid point, the proportion of land in the grid box. The values are between 0 (sea) and 1 (land). |
Validity | Fixed |
Comment | Archived for control forecast and re-forecast, only once a day at 00Z Please note the typo in the GRIB2 manual: 0=land and 1=sea. The ET-DRC agreed that this is a typo and the correct usage is: 1 indicates land and 0 indicates sea. |
Parameter | |||
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Discipline | = 2 | Land surface products | |
Parameter Category | = 0 | Vegetation/biomass | |
Parameter Number | = 0 | Land cover (proportion) |
Level | ||||
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Type of first fixed surface | = 1 | Ground or water surface | ||
Scale factor of first Type of second fixed surface | = All 1'sall bits to 1 | Missing | ||
Scaled value Scale factor of first fixed surface | = All 1'sScale factor all bits to 1 | Missing | ||
Type of second fixed surface | = | All 1'sall bits to 1 | Missing | |
Scale factor of second | Scaled value of firstfixed surface | = | All 1'sall bits to 1 | Missing |
Scaled value of second fixed surface | = | Allall bits to 1 | 'sGRIB 2 and C-code for: Control forecast and Control re-forecastMissing |