GRIB-API definition
| Name | Skin temperature | Abbreviation | skt | Unit | K | paramId | 235 |
| Definition | Temperature of of an infinitesimally thin surface layer of land or water surface at radiative equilibrium. |
| Validity | instantaneous |
| Comment | |
GRIB2 definition
| Parameter |
|---|
| Discipline | 0 | meteorological products
|
| Parameter Category | 0 | temperature |
| Parameter Number | 17 | skin temperature
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| Level |
|---|
| 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 |