CISL RDA: ds090.0 GRIB Parameter Table

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ds090.0 GRIB Parameter Table

The following 93 parameters from NCEP Parameter Code Table 2 are included in this dataset:

Parameter Code	Short Name	Description	Units
1	PRES	Pressure	Pa
2	PRMSL	Pressure reduced to MSL	Pa
3	PTEND	Pressure tendency	Pa s^-1
7	HGT	Geopotential height	gpm
11	TMP	Temperature	K
12	VTMP	Virtual temperature	K
13	POT	Potential temperature	K
15	TMAX	Maximum temperature	K
16	TMIN	Minimum temperature	K
33	UGRD	u-component of wind	m s^-1
34	VGRD	v-component of wind	m s^-1
35	STRM	Stream function	m² s^-1
36	VPOT	Velocity potential	m² s^-1
37	MNTSF	Montgomery stream function	m² s^-2
39	VVEL	Pressure vertical velocity	Pa s^-1
41	ABSV	Absolute vorticity	s^-1
43	RELV	Relative vorticity	s^-1
44	RELD	Relative divergence	s^-1
51	SPFH	Specific humidity	kg kg^-1
52	RH	Relative humidity	%
54	PWAT	Precipitable water	kg m^-2
59	PRATE	Precipitation rate	kg m^-2 s^-1
64	SRWEQ	Snowfall rate water equivalent	kg m^-2 s^-1
65	WEASD	Water equivalent of accumulated snow depth	kg m^-2
71	TCDC	Total cloud cover	%
72	CDCON	Convective cloud cover	%
81	LAND	Land cover	fraction
83	SFCR	Surface roughness	m
84	ALBDO	Albedo	%
90	RUNOF	Water run-off	kg m^-2
91	ICEC	Ice cover	fraction
111	NSWRS	Net short-wave radiation flux (surface)	W m^-2
112	NLWRS	Net long-wave radiation flux (surface)	W m^-2
121	LHTFL	Latent heat flux	W m^-2
122	SHTFL	Sensible heat flux	W m^-2
124	UFLX	Momentum flux, u-component	N m^-2
125	VFLX	Momentum flux, v-component	N m^-2
131	LFTX	Surface lifted index	K
132	4LFTX	Best (4 layer) lifted index	K
136	VSSH	Vertical speed shear	s^-1
138	BVF2	Brunt-Vaisala frequency (squared)	s^-2
144	SOILW	Volumetric soil moisture content	fraction
145	PEVPR	Potential evaporation rate	W m^-2
146	CWORK	Cloud workfunction	J kg^-1
147	U-GWD	Zonal flux of gravity wave stress	N m^-2
148	V-GWD	Meridional flux of gravity wave stress	N m^-2
149	PV	Potential vorticity	m² s^-1 kg^-1
155	GFLUX	Ground heat flux	W m^-2
160	CSUSF	Clear sky upward solar flux	W m^-2
161	CSDSF	Clear sky downward solar flux	W m^-2
162	CSULF	Clear sky upward long wave flux	W m^-2
163	CSDLF	Clear sky downward long wave flux	W m^-2
164	CFNSF	Cloud forcing net solar flux	W m^-2
165	CFNLF	Cloud forcing net long wave flux	W m^-2
166	VBDSF	Visible beam downward solar flux	W m^-2
167	VDDSF	Visible diffuse downward solar flux	W m^-2
168	NBDSF	Near IR beam downward solar flux	W m^-2
169	NDDSF	Near IR diffuse downward solar flux	W m^-2
175	SGLYR	Nearby model layer number (from bottom up)
178	UMAS	Mass weighted u
179	VMAS	Mass weighted v
181	LPSX	x-gradient of log pressure	m^-1
182	LPSY	y-gradient of log pressure	m^-1
183	HGTX	x-gradient of height	m m^-1
184	HGTY	y-gradient of height	m m^-1
190	CBUW	Covariance between u and omega	[m s^-1]*[Pa s^-1]
191	CBVW	Covariance between v and omega	[m s^-1]*[Pa s^-1]
192	CBUQ	Covariance between u and specific humidity	[m s^-1]*[gm gm^-1]
193	CBVQ	Covariance between v and specific humidity	[m s^-1]*[gm gm^-1]
194	CBTW	Covariance between T and omega	[K]*[Pa s^-1]
195	CBQW	Covariance between specific humidity and omega	[gm gm^-1]*[Pa s^-1]
196	CBMZW	Covariance between v and u	m² s^-2
197	CBTZW	Covariance between u and T	[K]*[m s^-1]
198	CBTMW	Covariance between v and T	[K]*[m s^-1]
204	DSWRF	Downward short wave radiation flux	W m^-2
205	DLWRF	Downward long wave radiation flux	W m^-2
211	USWRF	Upward short wave radiation flux	W m^-2
212	ULWRF	Upward long wave radiation flux	W m^-2
214	CPRAT	Convective precipitation rate	kg m^-2 s^-1
225	VGTYP	Vegetation type (as in SiB)
229	SNOHF	Snow phase-change heat flux	W m^-2
230	5WAVA	5-wave geopotential height anomaly
241	LRGHR	Large scale condensation heat rate	K s^-1
242	CNVHR	Deep convective heating rate	K s^-1
243	CNVMR	Deep convective moistening rate	kg kg^-1 s^-1
244	SHAHR	Shallow convective heating rate	K s^-1
245	SHAMR	Shallow convective moistening rate	kg kg^-1 s^-1
246	VDFHR	Vertical diffusion heating rate	K s^-1
247	VDFUA	Vertical diffusion zonal acceleration	m s^-2
248	VDFVA	Vertical diffusion meridional acceleration	m s^-2
249	VDFMR	Vertical diffusion moistening rate	kg kg^-1 s^-1
250	SWHR	Solar radiative heating rate	K s^-1
251	LWHR	Long wave radiative heating rate	K s^-1