GRIB-API definition
UERRA details
Definition | The percolation is the downward movement of water under hydrostatic pressure in the saturated zone. This water might still end up in rivers and lakes as discharge but it is a slower process than water runoff or drainage.
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Validity | instantaneousSuch defined percolation is an input for hydrological models together with e.g. water runoff. |
Validity | accumulated (from the beginning of the forecast) |
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WMO GRIB2 definition
2land surface hydrological products |
Parameter |
Categoryvegetation/biomass category | Parameter Number | 33hydrology basic products |
Parameter number | 16 | percolation rate** |
Type of statistical processing | 1 | accumulated |
**newly approved by WMO (release in May 2016)
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Type of first fixed surface |
| 177 | Deep soil (of indefinite depth) |
Scale factor of first fixed surface |
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Scaled value of first fixed surface |
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Type of second fixed surface |
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Scale factor of second fixed surface |
| all bits to 1 | missing |
Scaled value of second fixed surface |
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