Name:total_precipitationAbbreviation:tpUnit:kg m-2
DefinitionThe parameter is the sum of convective precipitation and large scale precipitation.
Validityaccumulated from the beginning of the forecast
CommentThe field will be archived at forecast step 0, with all data values set to zero.
GRIB 2
Discipline= 0  
Parameter Category= 1  
Parameter Number= 52  
Type of statistical processing= 1  
Type of first fixed surface= 1Type of second fixed surface= All 1's
Scale factor of first fixed surface= All 1'sScale factor of second fixed surface= All 1's
Scaled value of first fixed surface= All 1'sScaled value of second fixed surface= All 1's
GRIB 2 and C-code for: Deterministic forecast, Perturbed forecast and Control forecast

 

Comments

AuthorContents 
Jörg UrbanJoint Meeting of CT-MTDCF/ET-DRC, Montreal, 8-12 May 2006: accepted parameter number 52.