CISL RDA: ds627.0 GRIB Parameter Table

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ds627.0 GRIB Parameter Table

The following 113 parameters from ECMWF Parameter Code Table 128 are included in this dataset:

Parameter Code	Short Name	Description	Units	Comments
3	PT	Potential temperature	K
20	PARCS	Clear sky surface photosynthetically active radiation	W m^-2 s
27	CVL	Low vegetation cover
28	CVH	High vegetation cover
29	TVL	Type of low vegetation
30	TVH	Type of high vegetation
31	CI	Sea-ice cover
32	ASN	Snow albedo
33	RSN	Snow density	kg m^-3
34	SSTK	Sea surface temperature	K
35	ISTL1	Ice surface temperature layer 1	K
36	ISTL2	Ice surface temperature layer 2	K
37	ISTL3	Ice surface temperature layer 3	K
38	ISTL4	Ice surface temperature layer 4	K
39	SWVL1	Volumetric soil water layer 1	m³ m^-3	ECMWF has a description of the soil water units on their web site
40	SWVL2	Volumetric soil water layer 2	m³ m^-3	ECMWF has a description of the soil water units on their web site
41	SWVL3	Volumetric soil water layer 3	m³ m^-3	ECMWF has a description of the soil water units on their web site
42	SWVL4	Volumetric soil water layer 4	m³ m^-3	ECMWF has a description of the soil water units on their web site
44	ES	Snow evaporation	m	Accumulated field
45	SMLT	Snowmelt	m	Accumulated field
49	10FG	Wind gust at 10 metres	m s^-1	Maximum since previous post-processing
50	LSPF	Large-scale precipitation fraction	s	Accumulated field
53	MONT	Montgomery potential	m² s^-2
54	PRES	Pressure	Pa
57		Downward uv radiation at the surface	W m^-2
58		Photosynthetically active radiation at the surface	W m^-2
59		Convective available potential energy	J kg^-1
60	PV	Potential vorticity	K m² kg^-1 s^-1
74	SDFOR	Standard deviation of filtered subgrid surface geopotential	m
78		Total column liquid water	kg m^-2
79		Total column ice water	kg m^-2
129	Z	Geopotential	m² s^-2	At the surface - orography
130	T	Temperature	K
131	U	U velocity	m s^-1
132	V	V velocity	m s^-1
133	Q	Specific humidity	kg kg^-1
134	SP	Surface pressure	Pa
135	W	Vertical velocity	Pa s^-1
136	TCW	Total column water	kg m^-2	Liquid + ice + vapour
137	TCWV	Total column water vapour	kg m^-2
138	VO	Vorticity (relative)	s^-1
139	STL1	Soil temperature level 1	K	Soil temperature (ST) before 1993-08-04
141	SD	Snow depth	m
142	LSP	Stratiform precipitation	m	Accumulated field
143	CP	Convective precipitation	m	Accumulated field
144	SF	Snowfall (convective + stratiform)	m	Accumulated field
145	BLD	Boundary layer dissipation	W m^-2 s	Accumulated field
146	SSHF	Surface sensible heat flux	W m^-2 s	Accumulated field
147	SLHF	Surface latent heat flux	W m^-2 s	Accumulated field
148	CHNK	Charnock		Surface stress (SS) before 1998-05-19
151	MSL	Mean sea-level pressure	Pa
152	LNSP	Logarithm of surface pressure
155	D	Divergence	s^-1
157	R	Relative humidity	%
159	BLH	Boundary layer height	m
160	SDOR	Standard deviation of orography
161	ISOR	Anisotropy of sub-gridscale orography
162	ANOR	Angle of sub-gridscale orography	rad
163	SLOR	Slope of sub-gridscale orography
164	TCC	Total cloud cover
165	10U	10 metre U wind component	m s^-1
166	10V	10 metre V wind component	m s^-1
167	2T	2 metre temperature	K
168	2D	2 metre dewpoint temperature	K
169	SSRD	Surface solar radiation downwards	W m^-2 s
170	STL2	Soil temperature level 2	K	Deep soil temperature (DST) before 1993-08-04
172	LSM	Land/sea mask
173	SR	Surface roughness	m
174	AL	Albedo
175	STRD	Surface thermal radiation downwards	W m^-2 s	Accumulated field
176	SSR	Surface solar radiation	W m^-2 s	Accumulated field
177	STR	Surface thermal radiation	W m^-2 s	Accumulated field
178	TSR	Top solar radiation	W m^-2 s	Accumulated field
179	TTR	Top thermal radiation	W m^-2 s	Accumulated field
180	EWSS	East/West surface stress	N m^-2 s	Accumulated field
181	NSSS	North/South surface stress	N m^-2 s	Accumulated field
182	E	Evaporation	m	Accumulated field
183	STL3	Soil temperature level 3	K	Climatological deep soil temperature (CDST) before 1993-08-04
186	LCC	Low cloud cover
187	MCC	Medium cloud cover
188	HCC	High cloud cover
189	SUND	Sunshine duration	s	Accumulated field
195	LGWS	Latitudinal component of gravity wave stress	N m^-2 s	Accumulated field
196	MGWS	Meridional component of gravity wave stress	N m^-2 s	Accumulated field
197	GWD	Gravity wave dissipation	W m^-2 s	Accumulated field
198	SRC	Skin reservoir content	m
201	MX2T	Maximum 2 metre temperature since previous post-processing	K
202	MN2T	Minimum 2 metre temperature since previous post-processing	K
203	O3	Ozone mass mixing ratio	kg kg^-1
205	RO	Runoff	m	Accumulated field
206	TCO3	Total column ozone	kg m^-2	Before 2001-06-12, unit was Dobson. 1 Dobson = 2.1415E-5 kg m^-2
208	TSRC	Top net solar radiation, clear sky	W m^-2 s	Accumulated field
209	TTRC	Top net thermal radiation, clear sky	W m^-2 s	Accumulated field
210	SSRC	Surface net solar radiation, clear sky	W m^-2 s	Accumulated field
211	STRC	Surface net thermal radiation, clear sky	W m^-2 s	Accumulated field
212	SI	Solar insolation	W m^-2 s
228	TP	Total precipitation	m
229	IEWS	Instantaneous X surface stress	N m^-2
230	INSS	Instantaneous Y surface stress	N m^-2
231	ISHF	Instantaneous surface heat flux	W m^-2
232	IE	Instantaneous moisture flux	kg m^-2 s	Evaporation
234	LSRH	Logarithm of surface roughness length for heat
235	SKT	Skin temperature	K
236	STL4	Soil temperature level 4	K
238	TSN	Temperature of snow layer	K
239	CSF	Convective snowfall	m	Accumulated field
240	LSF	Large-scale snowfall	m	Accumulated field
243	FAL	Forecast albedo
244	FSR	Forecast surface roughness	m
245	FLSR	Forecast log of surface roughness for heat
246	CLWC	Cloud liquid water content	kg kg^-1
247	CIWC	Cloud ice water content	kg kg^-1
248	CC	Cloud cover