The table below provides a short desciption of all variables in each of the major archives in ds117.0. The top number in each cell is the parameter code and the bottom blurb is the description.

Surface/Subsurface (code table 128)	Vertical Integrals (code table 162)	Other (code table 128)
27 Low vegetation cover	51 Surface geopotential	44 Snow evaporation
28 High vegetation cover	52 Surface pressure	45 Snowmelt
29 Type of low vegetation	53 Vertical integral of mass of atmosphere	142 Stratiform precipitation (Large scale precipitation)
30 Type of high vegetation	54 Vertical integral of temperature	143 Convective precipitation
31 Sea-ice cover	55 Vertical integral of total column water vapour	144 Snowfall (convective + stratiform)
32 Snow albedo	56 Vertical integral of total column liquid cloud water	146 Surface sensible heat flux
33 Snow density	57 Vertical integral of total column frozen cloud water	147 Surface latent heat flux
34 Sea surface temperature	58 Vertical integral of total column ozone	159 Boundary layer height
35 Ice surface temperature layer 1	59 Vertical integral of kinetic energy	169 Surface solar radiation downwards
36 Ice surface temperature layer 2	60 Vertical integral of thermal energy	175 Surface thermal radiation downwards
37 Ice surface temperature layer 3	61 Vertical integral of dry static energy	176 Surface solar radiation
38 Ice surface temperature layer 4	62 Vertical integral of moist static energy	177 Surface thermal radiation
39 Volumetric soil water layer 1	63 Vertical integral of total energy	178 Top solar radiation
40 Volumetric soil water layer 2	64 Vertical integral of energy conversion	179 Top thermal radiation
41 Volumetric soil water layer 3	65 Vertical integral of eastward mass flux	180 East-West surface stress
42 Volumetric soil water layer 4	66 Vertical integral of northward mass flux	181 North-South surface stress
129 Geopotential	67 Vertical integral of eastward kinetic energy flux	182 Evaporation
136 Total column water	68 Vertical integral of northward kinetic energy flux	195 Latitudinal component of gravity wave stress
137 Total column water vapour	69 Vertical integral of eastward heat flux	196 Meridional component of gravity wave stress
139 Soil temperature level 1	70 Vertical integral of northward heat flux	205 Runoff
141 Snow depth	71 Vertical integral of eastward water vapour flux	208 Top net solar radiation, clear sky
148 Charnock	72 Vertical integral of northward water vapour flux	209 Top net thermal radiation, clear sky
151 Mean sea level pressure	73 Vertical integral of eastward geopotential flux	210 Surface net solar radiation, clear sky
160 Standard deviation of orography	74 Vertical integral of northward geopotential flux	211 Surface net thermal radiation, clear sky
161 Anisotropy of sub-gridscale orography	75 Vertical integral of eastward total energy flux	229 Instantaneous X surface stress
162 Angle of sub-gridscale orography	76 Vertical integral of northward total energy flux	230 Instantaneous Y surface stress
163 Slope of sub-gridscale orography	77 Vertical integral of eastward ozone flux	232 Instantaneous moisture flux
164 Total cloud cover	78 Vertical integral of northward ozone flux
165 10 metre U wind component	81 Vertical integral of divergence of mass flux
166 10 metre V wind component	82 Vertical integral of divergence of kinetic energy flux
167 2 metre temperature	83 Vertical integral of divergence of thermal energy flux
168 2 metre dewpoint temperature	84 Vertical integral of divergence of moisture flux
170 Soil temperature level 2	85 Vertical integral of divergence of geopotential flux
172 Land-sea mask	86 Vertical integral of divergence of total energy flux
173 Surface roughness	87 Vertical integral of divergence of ozone flux
174 Albedo
183 Soil temperature level 3
186 Low cloud cover
187 Medium cloud cover
188 High cloud cover
198 Skin reservoir content
206 Total column ozone
234 Logarithm of surface roughness length for heat
235 Skin temperature
236 Soil temperature level 4
238 Temperature of snow layer