amocvocab — variable vocabulary

Version 0.1, checked against CF standard-name table v94 (2026-06-09). This table is generated from amocatlas/vocabulary/amocvocab.yml.

Each quantity carries a CF standard_name only when an exact CF name exists whose canonical units are convertible to the reported units; otherwise the standard name is null and the nearest CF concept, if any, is noted. See the AMOCatlas data format conformance statement for how these are written into files.

Quantities

Name	Long name	Kind	CF standard_name	Units	Status
MOC	ocean meridional overturning streamfunction	overturning_streamfunction	ocean_meridional_overturning_streamfunction	sverdrup	current
MHT	northward ocean heat transport	heat_transport	northward_ocean_heat_transport	petawatt	current
MHT_OT	northward ocean heat transport due to overturning	heat_transport	northward_ocean_heat_transport_due_to_overturning	petawatt	current
MHT_GYRE	northward ocean heat transport due to gyre	heat_transport	northward_ocean_heat_transport_due_to_gyre	petawatt	current
MHT_EKMAN	northward ocean heat transport due to Ekman transport	heat_transport	none (nearest northward_ocean_heat_transport)	petawatt	current
MFT	northward ocean freshwater transport	freshwater_transport	units-incompatible (nearest northward_ocean_freshwater_transport)	sverdrup	current

Qualifiers

Code	Class	Order	Definition
OT	component	1	Overturning (zonally averaged) component of a section transport, associated with the vertical-mean overturning circulation.
GYRE	component	1	Gyre (zonally varying) component of a section transport, associated with the horizontal circulation.
EKMAN	component	1	Wind-driven Ekman component of a transport.

Decompositions

All decompositions are provisional in this release: the component partition is verified where a closure check is recorded, but the scheme reference is not yet pinned.

Decomposition	Of	Components	Closure	Status
overturning_gyre	MHT	MHT_OT, MHT_GYRE	exact	provisional