: Public Class
Created: 09/08/2012 11:30:00
Modified: 28/11/2012 14:41:13
Project:
Advanced:
Quantitative amount of cloud; measured in % or oktas. <br /></p><p><font color="#ff0000"><br /></p><p></font><font color="#ff0000">WARNING: the terminology "Cloud amount" (GRIB 4.2 0.6.7) and "Cloud cover" (GRIB 4.2 0.6.22) is ambiguous. The WMO terminology specifies "Cloud cover" as a synonym for "Cloud amount"! The terminology needs to be clarified.</font><br /></p><p><font color="#ff0000"><br /></p><p></font><font color="#ff0000">... definition "Cloud cover" (ECMWF): "horizontal fraction of the grid box covered by cloud"</font><br /></p><p><font color="#ff0000">... definition "Cloud amount (ECMWF): "eigths of sky covered in cloud as seen by an observer on the ground"</font><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In FM-92 GRIB, encoded as GRIB Code-table 4.2 discipline 0 (meteorology), category 6 (cloud), #7 cloud amount (%) or #22 cloud cover (%) .<br /></p>
Operation
Public
convert( target: UnitOfMeasure,
):Measure
Details:
sequential
Notes: An operation to convert from one unit of measure to another such as feet to meters, or degrees to radians. <br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The source is the "self" object in its current uom. The target measure will be in the target (operation parameter) Unit of Measure.<br /></p>
Tag Value
isCollection false
Details:
Values: true,false
Default: false
Description: Identifies the data type as an object collection.
noPropertyType true
Details:
Values: true,false
Default: false
Description: urpress creation of a standard property type that supports inline encoding (applies to ISO 19136:2007 encoding rule). Always set to false in INSPIRE.
quantityName http://data.wmo.int/def/grib2/codeflag/4.2/0.6.7
Details:
 
xsdEncodingRule iso19136_2007
Details:
Values: iso19136_2007,iso19139_2007,iso19136_2007_INSPIRE_Extensions
Default: iso19136_2007
Description: XML Schema encoding rule to apply