Variable List for GFDL Transient Run which was received at NCAR DEC 1993. GRID POINT DATA TAPE FORMAT --------------------------- VARIABLE NUMBER NAME DESCRIPTION UNITS 1 LSEA land-sea mask 1=land, 0=sea 2 ZSTAR elevation of the surface cm 3-11 U1 - U9 u-wind component cm/sec 12-20 V1 - V9 v-wind component cm/sec 21-29 T1 - T9 temperature deg K 30-38 R1 - R9 mixing ratio gm/gm 39 PSTAR surface pressure dynes/cm**2 40-47 SIGMADOT1-8 sigma dot (vert. vel.) 1/sec 48-56 W1 - W9 omega dynes/(cm**2 * sec) 57-65 RAD1 - 9 radiation tendency deg K/sec 66 TSTAR surface (skin) temperature deg K 67 SLWDP (net sw - downward lw) at the sfc ly/min 68 PRECIP precipation (rain+snow) cm/day 69 EVAPOR evaporation (includes SUBLIM) cm/day 70 SNOWFL snow fall rate (water equiv) cm/day 71 SOILM soil moisture cm 72 RUNOFF runoff rate cm/day 73 SNWDPT snow depth (water equiv) cm 74 SNWMLT snow melt rate (water equiv) cm/day 75 CALB calculated surface albedo percent/100 76 SUBLIM sublimation rate cm/day 77 YCEMLT sea ice or land ice melt rate cm/day 78-86 VFU vertical diffusion of u-wind cm/sec**2 87-95 VFV vertical diffusion of v-wind cm/sec**2 96-104 VFT vertical diffusion of temp deg K/sec 105-113 VFR vertical diffusion of mix ratio gm/gm/sec 114 SWTOP net short wave at the top of the atm ly/min 115 LWTOP net long wave at the top of the atm ly/min 116 SWBOT net short wave at the ground ly/min 117 LWBOT net long wave at the ground ly/min 118 SHFX sensible heat flux at the ground ly/min 119 LATHT for latent heat flux use EVAPOR and SUBLIM 120-128 CONVT temperature change due to convective adj deg k/2 sec 129-137 CONVR mix ratio change due to convective adj gm/gm/2 sec 138-146 FILLMR negative mixing ratio filling gm/gm/timestep 147-155 RELHUM relative humidity (may be negative!) percent 156-164 clouds percent of cloud cover in grid box percent 165 total clds percent of total cloud cover percent 166 QOCN heat flux from the atm to the ocn ly/sec 167 TAUX x-direction wind stress dynes/cm**2 168 TAUY y-direction wind stress dynes/cm**2 169 PER prec+runoff-evap for ocn cm/sec 170 SNO snow fall over the ocn + "berging" cm/sec Definitions: ly langley sec seconds gm gram timestep 30 minutes 9 vertical levels