NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL): Boulder, CO, USA

Index	Abbreviation	Units	Longname
1	P	Pa	Pressure
2	PMSL	Pa	Pressure reduced to mean sea level
3	PT	Pa/s	Pressure tendency
4	PVORT	Km**2/kg/s	Potential vorticity
5	ICAHT	m	ICAO Standard Atmosphere Reference Height
6	GP	m**2/s**2	Geopotential
7	GH	gpm	Geopotential Height
8	GEH	m	Geometric Height
9	HGHTSD	m	Standard deviation of height
10	TOZO	Dobson	Total ozone
11	T	K	Temperature
12	VT	K	Virtual temperature
13	POT	K	Potential temperature
14	EPOT	K	Equivalent potential temperature
15	MXT	K	Maximum temperature
16	MNT	K	Minimum temperature
17	DPT	K	Dew point temperature
18	DPD	K	Dew point depression
19	LR	K/m	Lapse rate
20	VIS	m	Visibility
21	RSP1	undef	Radar Spectra (1)
22	RSP2	undef	Radar Spectra (2)
23	RSP3	undef	Radar Spectra (3)
24	PLI	K	Parcel lifted index (to 500 hPa)
25	TA	K	Temperature anomaly
26	PA	Pa	Pressure anomaly
27	GHA	gpm	Geopotential height anomaly
28	WSP1	undef	Wave Spectra (1)
29	WSP2	undef	Wave Spectra (2)
30	WSP3	undef	Wave Spectra (3)
31	WD	deg true	Wind direction (from which blowing)
32	WS	m/s	Wind speed
33	UW	m/s	u-component of wind
34	VW	m/s	v-component of wind
35	SF	m**2/s	Stream function
36	VPOT	m**2/s	Velocity potential
37	MSG	m**2/s**2	Montgomery stream function
38	SVV	/s	Sigma coordinate vertical velocity
39	PVV	Pa/s	Pressure vertical velocity
40	GVV	m/s	Geometric vertical velocity
41	AV	/s	Absolute vorticity
42	AD	/s	Absolute divergence
43	RV	/s	Relative vorticity
44	RD	/s	Relative divergence
45	VUCSH	/s	Vertical u-component shear
46	VVCSH	/s	Vertical v-component shear
47	DIRC	deg true	Direction of current
48	SPC	m/s	Speed of current
49	UOGRD	m/s	u-component of current
50	VOGRD	m/s	v-component of current
51	SH	kg/kg	Specific humidity
52	RH	%	Relative humidity
53	MIXR	kg/kg	Humidity mixing ratio
54	PW	kg/m**2	Precipitable water
55	VAPP	Pa	Vapor pressure
56	SATD	Pa	Saturation deficit
57	EVP	kg/m**2	Evaporation
58	CICE	kg/m**2	Cloud Ice
59	PR	kg/m**2/s	Precipitation rate
60	THP	%	Thunderstorm probability
61	TP	kg/m**2	Total precipitation
62	LGSP	kg/m**2	Large scale precipitation
63	CP	kg/m**2	Convective precipitation
64	SRWEQ	kg/m**2/s	Snowfall rate water equivalent
65	WEASD	kg/m**2	Water equivalent of accumulated snow depth
66	SND	m	Snow depth
67	MIXHT	m	Mixed layer depth
68	TTHDP	m	Transient thermocline depth
69	MTHD	m	Main thermocline depth
70	MTHA	m	Main thermocline anomaly
71	TCC	%	Total cloud cover
72	CCC	%	Convective cloud cover
73	LCC	%	Low cloud cover
74	MCC	%	Medium cloud cover
75	HCC	%	High cloud cover
76	CWAT	kg/m**2	Cloud water
77	BLI	K	Best Lifted Index (to 500 hPa)
78	SNOC	kg/m**2	Convective snow
79	SNOL	kg/m**2	Large scale snow
80	WT	K	Water temperature
81	LAND	proportion	Land cover (land=1, sea=0)
82	DSLM	m	Deviation of sea level from mean
83	SFCR	m	Surface roughness
84	ALBDO	%	Albedo
85	ST	K	Soil temperature
86	SMC	kg/m**2	Soil moisture content
87	VEG	%	Vegetation
88	SALTY	kg/kg	Salinity
89	DEN	kg/m**3	Density
90	WATR	kg/m**2	Water runoff
91	ICEC	proportion	Ice cover (ice=1, no ice=0)
92	ICETK	m	Ice thickness
93	DICED	deg true	Direction of ice drift
94	SICED	m/s	Speed of ice drift
95	UICE	m/s	u-component of ice drift
96	VICE	m/s	v-component of ice drift
97	ICEG	m/s	Ice growth rate
98	ICED	/s	Ice divergence
99	SNOM	kg/m**2	Snow melt
100	HTSGW	m	Significant height of combined wind waves & swell
101	WVDIR	deg true	Direction of wind waves (from which)
102	WVHGT	m	Significant height of wind waves
103	WVPER	s	Mean period of wind waves
104	SWDIR	deg true	Direction of swell waves
105	SWELL	m	Significant height of swell waves
106	SWPER	s	Mean period of swell waves
107	DIRPW	deg true	Primary wave direction
108	PERPW	s	Primary wave mean period
109	DIRSW	deg true	Secondary wave direction
110	PERSW	s	Secondary wave mean period
111	NSWRS	W/m**2	Net short-wave radiation (surface)
112	NLRS	W/m**2	Net long-wave radiation (surface)
113	NSWRT	W/m**2	Net short-wave radiation (top of atmosphere)
114	NLWRT	W/m**2	Net long-wave radiation (top of atmosphere)
115	LWAVR	W/m**2	Long wave radiation flux
116	SWAVR	W/m**2	Short wave radiation flux
117	GRAD	W/m**2	Global radiation flux
118	BRTMP	K	Brightness temperature
119	LWRAD	W/m/sr	Radiance (with respect to wave number)
120	SWRAD	W/m**3/sr	Radiance (with respect to wave length)
121	LHTFL	W/m**2	Latent heat net flux
122	SHTFL	W/m**2	Sensible heat net flux
123	BLYDP	W/m**2	Boundary layer dissipation
124	UFLX	N/m**2	Momentum flux, u component
125	VFLX	N/m**2	Momentum flux, v component
126	WMIXE	J	Wind mixing energy
127	IMGD	undef	Image data
128	MSLP	Pa	Mean sea level pressure
129	MMSP	Pa	MAPS mean sea level pressure
130	EMSP	Pa	ETA mean sea level pressure
131	SLI	K	Surface lifted index
132	BLI	K	Best (4 layer) lifted index
133	KI	K	K index
134	SI	K	Sweat index
135	MCONV	kg/kg/s	Horizontal moisture divergence
136	VSS	1/s	Vertical speed shear
137	PT3	Pa/s	Pressure tendency - 3 hour
138	BVF2	1/s**2	Brunt-Vaisala frequency (squared)
139	PVMV	1/s/m	Potential vorticity (density weighted)
140	CRAIN	non-dim	Categorical rain (yes=1, no=0)
141	CFRZR	non-dim	Categorical freezing rain (yes=1, no=0)
142	CICEP	non-dim	Categorical ice pellets (yes=1, no=0)
143	CSNOW	non-dim	Categorical snow (yes=1, no=0)
144	SOILW	fraction	Volumetric soil moisture content
145	PEVPR	W/m**2	Potential evaporation rate
146	CWORK	J/kg	Cloud workfunction
147	UGWD	N/m**2	Zonal flux of gravity wave stress
148	VGWD	N/m**2	Meridional flux of gravity wave stress
149	PV	m**2/s/kg	Potential vorticity
150	COVMZ	m**2/kg**2	Covariance between meridional and zonal wind
151	COVTZ	K*m/s	Covariance between temperature and zonal wind
152	COVTM	K*m/s	Covariance between temperature and merid. wind
153	CW	Kg/kg	Cloud water
154	O3MR	Kg/kg	Ozone mixing ratio
155	GFLUX	W/m**2	Ground Heat flux
156	CIN	J/kg	Convective inhibition
157	CAPE	J/kg	Convective available potential energy
158	TKE	J/kg	Turbulent kinetic energy
159	CONDP	Pa	Condensation pressure of parcel lifted from sfc
160	CSUSF	W/m**2	Clear sky upward solar flux
161	CSDSF	W/m**2	Clear sky downward solar flux
162	CSULF	W/m**2	Clear sky upward long wave flux
163	CSDLF	W/m**2	Clear sky downward long wave flux
164	CFNSF	W/m**2	Cloud forcing net solar flux
165	CFNLF	W/m**2	Cloud forcing net long wave flux
166	VBDSF	W/m**2	Visible beam downward solar flux
167	VDDSF	W/m**2	Visible diffuse downward solar flux
168	NBDSF	W/m**2	Near IR beam downward solar flux
169	NDDSF	W/m**2	Near IR diffuse downward solar flux
170	RWMR	Kg/Kg	Rain water mixing ratio
171	SNMR	Kg/Kg	Snow mixing ratio
172	MFLX	N/m**2	Momentum flux
173	LMH	non-dim	Mass point model surface
174	LMV	non-dim	Velocity point model surface
175	MLYNO	non-dim	Model layer number (from bottom up)
176	NLAT	deg	Latitude
177	ELON	deg	East longitude
178	ICMR	Kg/Kg	Ice mixing ratio
179	GRMR	Kg/Kg	Graupel mixing ratio
181	LPSX	1/m	x-gradient of log pressure
182	LPSY	1/m	y-gradient of log pressure
183	JGTX	m/m	x-gradient of height
184	JGTY	m/m	y-gradient of height
185	TURB	non-dim	Turbulence SIGMET/AIRMET
186	ICNG	non-dim	Icing SIGMET/AIRMET
187	LTNG	non-dim	Lightning
188	WDROP	kg/m**2/s	Rate of Water drop from canopy to ground
189	VPT	K	Vitual potentail temperature
190	HELI	m**2/s**2	Helicity
191	PROB	numeric	Probability from ensemble
192	PROBN	numeric	Probability from ensemble normalized to climate
193	POP	%	Probability of precipitation
194	CPOFP	%	Probability of frozen precipitation
195	CPOZP	%	Probability of freezing precipitation
196	USTM	m/s	u-component of storm motion
197	VSTM	m/s	v-component of storm motion
198	NCIP	undef	Number conecntration for ice particles
199	EVBS	W/m**2	Direct evaporation from bare soil
200	EVCW	W/m**2	Canopy water evaporation
201	ICWAT	%	Ice-free water surface
202	CWDI	non-dim	Convective weather detection index
203	VAFTAD	non-dim	VAFTAD
204	DSWRF	W/m**2	Downward short wave radiation flux
205	DLWRF	W/m**2	Downward long wave radiation flux
206	UVI	J/m**2	Ulta violet index (1 hr integration at solar noon)
207	MSTAV	%	Moisture availability
208	SFEXC	kg/m**3/(m/s)	Exchange coefficient
209	MIXLY	integer	Number of mixed layers next to surface
210	TRANS	W/m**2	Transpiration
211	USWRF	W/m**2	Upward short wave radiation flux
212	ULWRF	W/m**2	Upward long wave radiation flux
213	CDLYR	%	Amount of non-convective cloud
214	CPRAT	kg/m**2/s	Convective precipitation rate
215	TTDIA	K/s	Temperature tendency by all physics
216	TTRAD	K/s	Temperature tendency by all radiation
217	TTPHY	K/s	Temperature tendency by non-radiation physics
218	PREIX	fraction	Precipitation index(0.0-1.0)
219	TSDID	K	Std. dev. of IR temperature over 1x1 deg area
220	NLGSP	In(kPa)	Natural log of surface pressure
221	HPBL	m	Planetary boundary layer height
222	WGH	gpm	5-wave geopotential height
223	CNWAT	kg/m**2	Plant canopy surface water
224	SOTYP	integer (0-9)	Soil type (as in Zobler)
225	VGTYP	integer (0-9)	Vegetation type (as in SiB)
226	BMIXL	m	Blackadar's mixing length scale
227	AMIXL	m	Asympotic mixing length scale
228	PEVAP	kg/m**2	Potential evaporation
229	SNOHF	W/m**2	Snow phase-change heat flux
230	WGH5A	gpm	5-wave geopotential height anomaly
231	MFLUX	Pa/s	Convective cloud mass flux
232	DTRF	W/m**2	Downward total radiation flux
233	UTRF	W/m**2	Upward total radiation flux
234	BGRUN	kg/m**2	Baseflow-groundwater runoff
235	SSRUN	kg/m**2	Storm surface runoff
237	OTOT	Kg/m**2	Total ozone
238	SCP	%	Snow cover percentage
239	SNOWT	K	Snow temperature
240	COVTW	K*m/s	Covariance between temperature and vertical component of the wind.
241	LRGHR	K/s	Large scale condensation heat rate
242	CNVHR	K/s	Deep convective heating rate
243	CNVMR	kg/kg/s	Deep convective moistening rate
244	SHAHR	K/s	Shallow convective heating rate
245	SHAMR	kg/kg/s	Shallow convective moistening rate
246	VDFHR	K/s	Vertical diffusion heating rate
247	VDFUA	m/s	Vertical diffusion zonal acceleration
248	VDFVA	m/s**2	Vertical diffusion meridional acceleration
249	VDFMR	kg/kg/s	Vertical diffusion moistening rate
250	SWHR	K/s	Solar radiative heating rate
251	LWHR	K/s	Long wave radiative heating rate
252	CD	non-dim	Drag coefficient
253	FRICV	m/s	Friction velocity
254	RI	non-dim	Richardson number
255	WGS	m/s	Wind Gust Speed