WCRP-universe_source-type.json

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        "file": "WCRP-universe_source-type.json",
        "file_creation_date": "2025-03-10T12:43:47.874911",
        "version": "fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.",
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        "repo_url": "https://github.com/WCRP-CMIP/WCRP-universe",
        "repo_prefix": "universal",
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        "comment": "This is an automatically generated file. Do not edit."
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    "source-type": {
        "AER": {
            "description": "aerosol treatment in an atmospheric model where concentrations are calculated based on emissions, transformation, and removal processes (rather than being prescribed or omitted entirely)",
            "label": "AER"
        },
        "AGCM": {
            "description": "atmospheric general circulation model run with prescribed ocean surface conditions and usually a model of the land surface",
            "label": "AGCM"
        },
        "AOGCM": {
            "description": "coupled atmosphere-ocean global climate model, additionally including explicit representation of at least the land and sea ice",
            "label": "AOGCM"
        },
        "BGC": {
            "description": "biogeochemistry model component that at the very least accounts for carbon reservoirs and fluxes in the atmosphere, terrestrial biosphere, and ocean",
            "label": "BGC"
        },
        "CHEM": {
            "description": "chemistry treatment in an atmospheric model that calculates atmospheric oxidant concentrations (including at least ozone), rather than prescribing them",
            "label": "CHEM"
        },
        "ISM": {
            "description": "ice-sheet model that includes ice-flow",
            "label": "ISM"
        },
        "LAND": {
            "description": "land model run uncoupled from the atmosphere",
            "label": "LAND"
        },
        "OGCM": {
            "description": "ocean general circulation model run uncoupled from an AGCM but, usually including a sea-ice model",
            "label": "OGCM"
        },
        "RAD": {
            "description": "radiation component of an atmospheric model run 'offline'",
            "label": "RAD"
        },
        "SLAB": {
            "description": "slab-ocean used with an AGCM in representing the atmosphere-ocean coupled system",
            "label": "SLAB"
        },
        "gridded_insitu": {
            "description": "gridded product based on measurements collected from in-situ instruments",
            "label": "gridded_insitu"
        },
        "reanalysis": {
            "description": "gridded product generated from a model reanalysis based on in-situ instruments and possibly satellite measurements",
            "label": "reanalysis"
        },
        "satellite_blended": {
            "description": "gridded product based on both in-situ instruments and satellite measurements",
            "label": "satellite_blended"
        },
        "satellite_retrieval": {
            "description": "gridded product based on satellite measurements",
            "label": "satellite_retrieval"
        }
    }
}