priority_level record: Medium (v1.2.2.2)

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Priority level for variable groups

Attribute	Value
name	Medium
notes	These variables deliver extra information that can then enable people to go further and push the scientific boundaries further.
uid	527f5c95-8c97-11ef-944e-41a8eb05f654
value	3

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variable_groups:

AgAirPollution (Agriculture and Air Pollution modeling)
AgWaterExt (Agricultural water extended)
DCPP_Wider (A wider range of variables needed to understand the sources of prediction skill of DCPP hindcasts, and to better understand impacts of regional climate variability and change)
HeatHealthExpandedDaily (Expanded daily climate drivers for heat health impacts)
Heat_Indices (Adding missing heat indices)
ISIMIP3hourlyAtmos (3-hourly atmospheric forcings for ISIMIP)
WaterResourcesPET_daily (Additional Water Resources variables for calculating potential evapotranspiration)
WaterResourcesPET_monthly (Additional Water Resources variables for calculating potential evapotranspiration)
WaterResources_subdaily (Flood and drought risk assessment at subdaily timescale)
aerchemmip_3d_daily (3D winds and ozone data at daily timescales for analysis in AerChemMIP2)
biodiv_land_daily_advanced (Advanced set of daily climate variables for biodiversity modelling, including dynamic vegetation models)
clouds_basic_instantaneous (Instantaneous variables for evaluating clouds, radiation and precipitation)
dynamical_downscaling_soil (Dynamical Downscaling Soil (CORDEX))
dynvar_advanced (Extended set of variables for atmospheric dynamics and transport diagnostics)
hydro_modelling_subdaily (Minimum variable set for hydrological models at subdaily timescale)
hydrology (Hydrology and Freshwater Systems)
impact_energy_building_demand (Data for modelling energy demand in built environment)
impacts_climserv_hourly_expanded (Impacts and Adaptation, Climate Services – expanded list at hourly timescales)
impacts_energy_damaging_wind (Damaging wind for energy systems)
land_benchmarking_and_landcover_variables_tier2 (Land physical and landcover variables needed for benchmarking and understanding carbon, nitrogen, and CH4 cycle changes at monthly frequency)
land_carbon_cycle_tier2 (Land Carbon Cycle Pools and Fluxes, at monthly frequency, medium priority)
land_ch4_fluxes (Land CH4 fluxes and associated variables at monthly frequency)
land_nitrogen_cycle_tier2 (Land Nitrogen Cycle Variables at Monthly Frequency, tier 2)
landatm_coupling_3hr_medium (Land-Atmosphere Coupling at 3 h time means or at an instantaneous point 3 hPt (medium priority))
landice_antarctica_allfreq (Variables for diagnosing Greenland ice sheet behaviour and climate interactions)
landice_greenland_allfreq (Variables for diagnosing Greenland ice sheet behaviour and climate interactions)
landuse (Land use information including land use fractions and subgrid output on land use tiles at monthly and yearly timescales)
marine_bgc_carbon_sink (Biological Carbon Pump Variables)
marine_bgc_fisheries (Vulnerability, Impacts, Adaptation and Climate Services (VIACS) of Additional fisheries modeling and impacts output)
marine_bgc_fishmip (Marine ecosystem data for fisheries impact modelling)
marine_bgc_pp_uncertainty (variables linked to ocean productivity at monthly time scale)
marine_bgc_seaice (Seaice Biogeochemical Variables at monthly time scale)
marine_bgc_sediments (Ocean sediment biogeochemical cycling and benthic-pelagic exchange variables at monthly timeslices)
ocean_KE_vorticity_extremes (Ocean Kinetic Energy and Vorticity Extremes)
ocean_acidification_oxygen_extremes (Ocean pH and oxygen extremes)
ocean_carbon_cycle_tier2 (C4MIP variables describing ocean biogeochemical state and fluxes at monthly frequency, medium priority)
omip_surface_fluxes_medium_priority (Surface flux fields employed for OMIP in CMIP6 (Griffies et al., 2016, Table K2))
omip_transports_medium_priority (Transport fields employed for OMIP in CMIP6 (Griffies et al., 2016, Table I1))
paleo_cryosphere_medium_priority (Medium priority quantities of the cryosphere for paleoclimate research)
plant_phenology_medium (Land variables at vegetation type level)
seaice_budget_freshwater_monthly (Variables needed for assessing the sea ice freshwater budget at monthly timeslices)
seaice_dynamics_advanced (Variables needed for a detailed assessment of sea ice dynamics)
seaice_global_daily_basic (Characterizations of sea ice are area, extent and volume, integrated over each hemisphere, and reported daily. Similarly, snow on sea ice can be characterised by its total mass. The diagnostics demanded here represent the best estimates from the modelling groups, expert of their model and the corresponding land masks and grids.)
seaice_global_monthly_advanced (Net sea ice mass transport through the four straits of the Arctic Ocean (Fram Strait, Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Barents Sea Opening, Bering Strait))
seaice_state_daily_advanced (Variables needed to assess the influence of processes related to high frequency variability on sea ice evolution and change)
seaice_state_monthly_advanced (Variables needed for process-based understanding of monthly basic state)
snow_allfreq (Variables for snow-related assessments)
statistical_downscaling_core_6hourly (Empirical Statistical Downscaling and Emulators (CORDEX) core 6hourly)
synoptic_systems_low_priority (Lower priority variables for analysis of synoptic systems and their impacts)
temperature_variability_daily_lowpriority (Lower priority (but still desirable) daily average variables that are useful for quantifying daily temperature variability and the processes involved.)
tipmip_extended (Tipping Points Modeling Intercomparison Project extended variable group)
urban_impacts_additional (Additional variables to study impacts of climate variability and change on cities)

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