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Node: dcid:pressure
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "pressure"
description: "Force applied perpendicular to the surface of an object per unit area over which that force is distributed."
descriptionUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure"
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:height
typeOf: dcs:Property
name: "height"
domainIncludes: dcid:Atmosphere,dcid:Cloud,dcid:Graupel,dcid:Ice,dcid:IceCover,dcid:LandCover,dcid:Place,dcid:Rainwater,dcid:SeaIce,dcid:Snow,dcid:Soil
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange,dcid:DepthClassificationEnum

Node: dcid:mixingRatio
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "mixingRatio"
description: "Mass of water vapor per unit mass of dry air."
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:LowestHybridLevel
typeOf: dcid:DepthClassificationEnum
name: "Lowest Hybrid Level"

Node: dcid:reflectivity
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "reflectivity"
description: "Amount of radar energy that is returned (reflected) back toward a radar after hitting targets in the atmosphere"
descriptionUrl: "https://www.noaa.gov/jetstream/reflectivity"
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:compositeReflectivity
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "compositeReflectivity"
description: "A radar product that is composed of the greatest echo intensity (reflectivity) from any elevation angle seen by the radar."
descriptionUrl: "https://www.noaa.gov/jetstream/reflectivity"
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:PlanetaryBoundaryLayer
typeOf: dcid:DepthClassificationEnum
name: "Planetary Boundary Layer"
description: "Lowest part of the atmosphere directly influenced by its contact with a planetary surface."
descriptionUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundary_layer"

Node: dcid:ventilationRate
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "ventilationRate"
description: "Product of the mixing height multiplied by the transport wind speed."
descriptionUrl: "https://www.weather.gov/riw/fire_smoke_dispersal"
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:geopotentialHeight
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "geopotentialHeight"
description: "It measures the height of a pressure surface above sea level, accounting for the fact that gravity varies slightly across the Earth."
descriptionUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geopotential_height"
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:velocity
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "velocity"
description: "Rate of change of position with respect to time including magnitude and direction."
descriptionUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity"
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:PressureVerticalVelocity
typeOf: dcid:MeasurementQualifierEnum
name: "Pressure Vertical Velocity"
description: "Vertical motion of air expressed as rate of pressure change with time"
descriptionUrl: "https://www.weather.gov/source/zhu/ZHU_Training_Page/Miscellaneous/omega/omega.html"

Node: dcid:GeometricVerticalVelocity
typeOf: dcid:MeasurementQualifierEnum
name: "Geometric Vertical Velocity"
description: "Vertical component of air motion expressed in height (geometric) coordinates, representing the rate of change of an air parcel's physical height with time."

Node: dcid:absoluteVorticity
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "absoluteVorticity"
description: "Measure of the total rotation of an air parcel in the atmosphere"
descriptionUrl: "https://www.weather.gov/source/zhu/ZHU_Training_Page/Miscellaneous/vorticity/vorticity.html"
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:hainesIndex
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "hainesIndex"
description: "A meteorological fire-weather index designed to evaluate the potential for large or erratic wildfire behavior due to atmospheric conditions, specifically dryness and instability in the lower atmosphere."
descriptionUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haines_Index"
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:MSLPEtaReduction
typeOf: dcid:MeasurementQualifierEnum
name: "Mean Sea Level Pressure ETA Model Reduction"
description: "A specialized, computationally derived technique for calculating atmospheric pressure at sea level, specifically designed to address the unique step-mountain topography of the Eta model to prevent spurious, unrealistic pressure patterns in mountainous regions."

Node: dcid:depth
typeOf: dcs:Property
name: "depth"
domainIncludes: dcid:Soil
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:volumetricSoilMoisture
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "volumetricSoilMoisture"
description: "Water contained in the upper part of the soil mantle. This moisture evaporates from the soil and is used and transpired by vegetation."
descriptionUrl: "https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php?word=soil%20moisture"
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:liquidWaterContent
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "liquidWaterContent"
description: "Liquid water content is the mass of liquid water droplets contained in a unit volume of air."
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:cloudWaterContent
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "cloudWaterContent"
description: "Cloud water content is the mass of liquid cloud droplets suspended in air, excluding precipitation-sized water drops."
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:snowWaterEquivalent
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "snowWaterEquivalent"
description: "The water content obtained from melting accumulated snow."
descriptionUrl: "https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php?word=snow%20water%20equivalent"
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:thickness
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "thickness"
description: "Thickness is the measurement of the distance (in meters) between any two constant pressure surfaces."
descriptionUrl: "https://www.noaa.gov/jetstream/upper-air-charts/constant-pressure-charts-thickness"
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:Apparent
typeOf: dcid:MeasurementQualifierEnum
name: "Apparent"
description: "A measure of human discomfort due to combined heat and humidity (e.g., heat index)."
descriptionUrl: "https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php?word=apparent%20temperature"

Node: dcid:frozenPrecipitation
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "frozenPrecipitation"
description: "Frozen precipitation is precipitation that falls to the surface in solid form, such as snow or ice pellets."
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:occurrence
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "occurrence"
description: "Categorical occurrence of ice/snow/rain"
rangeIncludes: dcid:Integer

Node: dcid:precipitationType
typeOf: dcs:Property
name: "precipitationType"
domainIncludes: dcid:Place
description: "Precipitation type is the diagnosed form of precipitation reaching the surface, based on atmospheric temperature structure and hydrometeor characteristics."
rangeIncludes: dcid:NOAA_WeatherConditionEnum,dcid:WeatherConditionEnum

Node: dcid:IcePellets
typeOf: dcid:PrecipitationTypeEnum
name: "Ice pellets"
description: "pellets of ice composed of frozen or mostly frozen raindrops or refrozen partially melted snowflakes"
descriptionUrl: "https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php?word=ice+pellets"

Node: dcid:surfaceRoughness
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "surfaceRoughness"
description: "Parameter describing the aerodynamic roughness of the Earth's surface that influences near-surface wind and surface-atmosphere momentum exchange."
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:frictionalVelocity
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "frictionalVelocity"
description: "A turbulence velocity scale derived from surface stress that characterizes momentum transfer between the atmosphere and the surface."
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:landCoverType
typeOf: dcs:Property
name: "landCoverType"
domainIncludes: dcid:Place
description: "A categorical classification of the Earth's surface used by the model to define land-surface properties and surface-atmosphere interactions."

Node: dcid:Vegetation
typeOf: dcid:FarmTypeEnum
name: "Vegetation"

Node: dcid:soilType
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "soilType"
description: "Classification of soil based on physical and hydraulic properties."
rangeIncludes: dcid:SoilTypeEnum

Node: dcid:SoilTypeEnum
typeOf: schema:Class
name: "SoilTypeEnum"
description: "An enumeration of different soil types."
subClassOf: schema:Enumeration

Node: dcid:wiltingPoint
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "wiltingPoint"
description: "The minimum amount of water in the soil that the plant requires not to wilt."
descriptionUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_wilting_point"
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:fieldCapacity
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "fieldCapacity"
description: "The soil moisture content remaining after excess water has drained and is available for plant uptake."
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:sunshineDuration
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "sunshineDuration"
description: "The amount of time sunlight was detected at a given point."
descriptionUrl: "https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php?word=sunshine"
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:surfaceLiftedIndex
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "surfaceLiftedIndex"
description: "Difference between the observed 500-hPa temperature and the temperature of a surface-based air parcel lifted to 500 hPa."
descriptionUrl: "https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php?word=lifted%20index"
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:convectiveAvailablePotentialEnergy
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "convectiveAvailablePotentialEnergy"
description: "A measure of the amount of energy available for convection"
descriptionUrl: "https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php?word=cape"
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:convectiveInhibition
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "convectiveInhibition"
description: "The integrated negative buoyancy that must be overcome for an air parcel to reach its level of free convection."
descriptionUrl: "https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php?word=convective%20inhibition"
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:cloudWater
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "cloudWater"
description: "The liquid water content of clouds in the form of suspended cloud droplets."
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:LowCloudLayer
typeOf: dcid:DepthClassificationEnum
name: "Low Cloud Layer"

Node: dcid:MiddleCloudLayer
typeOf: dcid:DepthClassificationEnum
name: "Middle Cloud Layer"
description: "A term used to signify clouds with bases between 6,500 and 23,000 feet. At the higher altitudes, they may also have some ice crystals, but they are composed mainly of water droplets."
descriptionUrl: "https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php?word=middle+cloud"

Node: dcid:HighCloudLayer
typeOf: dcid:DepthClassificationEnum
name: "High Cloud Layer"
description: "These clouds have bases between 16,500 and 45,000 feet in the mid latitudes. At this level they are composed of primarily of ice crystals. Some clouds at this level are cirrus, cirrocumulus, and cirrostratus."
descriptionUrl: "https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php?word=high+cloud"

Node: dcid:CloudCeiling
typeOf: dcid:DepthClassificationEnum
name: "Cloud Ceiling"
description: "The height above ground level of the lowest cloud layer covering more than half of the sky, diagnosed from model cloud fields."
descriptionUrl: "https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php?word=ceiling"

Node: dcid:stormRelativeHelicity
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "stormRelativeHelicity"
description: "The integrated measure of streamwise vorticity in the lower atmosphere relative to storm motion, indicating the potential for rotating updrafts."
descriptionUrl: "https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php?word=helicity"
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:stormMotion
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "stormMotion"
description: "The speed and direction at which a thunderstorm travels."
descriptionUrl: "https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php?word=storm%20motion"
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:windComponent
typeOf: dcs:Property
name: "windComponent"
description: "Wind shear can be broken down into vertical and horizontal components."
descriptionUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind"
domainIncludes: dcid:Atmosphere
rangeIncludes: dcid:WindComponentEnum

Node: dcid:Tropopause
typeOf: dcid:DepthClassificationEnum
name: "Tropopause"
description: "The upper boundary of the troposphere, usually characterized by an abrupt change in lapse rate from positive (decreasing temperature with height) to neutral or negative (temperature constant or increasing with height)."
descriptionUrl: "https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php?word=tropopause"

Node: dcid:altitude
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "altitude"
description: "Altitude is a distance measurement, usually in the vertical or up direction, between a reference datum and a point or object."
descriptionUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altitude"
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:ICAOStandardAtmosphere
typeOf: dcid:MeasurementQualifierEnum
name: "International Civil Aviation Organization Standard Atmosphere"
description: "The ICAO Standard Atmosphere is a reference model defining standard vertical profiles of temperature and pressure used for aviation and atmospheric calculations."
descriptionUrl: "https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php?word=standard%20atmosphere"

Node: dcid:windShear
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "windShear"
description: "Wind shear is the change in wind speed and/or direction with height, diagnosed from model wind fields."
descriptionUrl: "https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php?word=wind%20shear"
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:MaxWind
typeOf: dcid:DepthClassificationEnum
name: "Max Wind"

Node: dcid:Isotherm0C
typeOf: dcid:DepthClassificationEnum
name: "Isotherm 0C"
description: "The 0 °C isotherm is the atmospheric level or line where the air temperature equals 0 degrees Celsius, indicating the freezing level."

Node: dcid:HighestTroposphericFreezingLevel
typeOf: dcid:DepthClassificationEnum
name: "Highest Tropospheric Freezing Level"

Node: dcid:bestLiftedIndex
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "bestLiftedIndex"
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:0.33To1SigmaLayer
typeOf: dcid:DepthClassificationEnum
name: "0.33 To 1 Sigma Layer"
description: "The 0.33-1 sigma layer represents the lower atmospheric layer between 0.33 and 1.0 of normalized surface pressure, encompassing the boundary layer and lower troposphere."

Node: dcid:0.995SigmaLevel
typeOf: dcid:DepthClassificationEnum
name: "0.995 Sigma Level"
description: "0.995 sigma level is a terrain-following model level located at 99.5% of surface pressure, representing near-surface atmospheric conditions."

Node: dcid:potentialTemperature
typeOf: schema:Property
name: "potentialTemperature"
description: "The temperature a parcel of dry air would have if brought adiabatically (i.e., without transfer of heat or mass) to a standard pressure level of 1000 mbar."
descriptionUrl: "https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php?word=potential%20temperature"
rangeIncludes: dcid:QuantityRange

Node: dcid:LiftedParcelLevel
typeOf: dcid:MeasurementQualifierEnum
name: "Lifted Parcel Level"
description: "The height at which the relative humidity of an air parcel will reach 100% with respect to liquid water when it cooled by dry adiabatic lifting."
descriptionUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifting_condensation_level"

Node: dcid:PotentialVorticity2PVU
typeOf: dcid:DepthClassificationEnum
name: "Potential Vorticity 2 PVU"

Node: dcid:PotentialVorticityNeg2PVU
typeOf: dcid:DepthClassificationEnum
name: "Potential Vorticity Neg 2 PVU"
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