Fields Requested in the UPP Parameter Table for SRW BGDAWP¶
Field description (column 1), level type as defined by WMO (column 2), abbreviated names as they appear in the Grib2 output file (column 3), and number of levels output (column 4).
| No. | Field Description | Level Type | Short Name | nlvl |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pressure on model surface | hybrid | PRES | 2 |
| 2 | Height on model surface | hybrid | HGT | 2 |
| 3 | Temperature on model surface | hybrid | TMP | 2 |
| 4 | Potential temperature on model surface | hybrid | POT | 2 |
| 5 | Dew point temperature on model surface | hybrid | DPT | 2 |
| 6 | Specific humidity on model surface | hybrid | SPFH | 1 |
| 7 | Relative humidity on model surface | hybrid | RH | 1 |
| 8 | U component of wind on model surface | hybrid | UGRD | 2 |
| 9 | V component of wind on model surface | hybrid | VGRD | 2 |
| 10 | Omega on model surface | hybrid | VVEL | 1 |
| 11 | Vertical velocity on model surface | hybrid | DZDT | 1 |
| 12 | Turbulent kinetic energy on model surface | hybrid | TKE | 2 |
| 13 | Rain mixing ratio on model surface | hybrid | RWMR | 2 |
| 14 | Snow mixing ratio on model surface | hybrid | SNMR | 2 |
| 15 | Rimming factor for Ferrier scheme on model surface | hybrid | RIME | 2 |
| 16 | Total condensate for Ferrier scheme on mode surface | hybrid | TCOND | 2 |
| 17 | Radar reflectivity on model surface | hybrid | REFD | 2 |
| 18 | Master length scale on model surface | hybrid | BMIXL | 1 |
| 19 | Height on pressure surface | isobaric | HGT | 46 |
| 20 | Temperature on pressure surface | isobaric | TMP | 46 |
| 21 | Dew point temperature on pressure surface | isobaric | DPT | 46 |
| 22 | Specific humidity on pressure surface | isobaric | SPFH | 46 |
| 23 | Relative humidity on pressure surface | isobaric | RH | 46 |
| 24 | Moisture convergence on pressure surface | isobaric | MCONV | 2 |
| 25 | U component of wind on pressure surface | isobaric | UGRD | 46 |
| 26 | V component of wind on pressure surface | isobaric | VGRD | 46 |
| 27 | Vertical velocity on pressure surface | isobaric | DZDT | 46 |
| 28 | Omega on pressure surface | isobaric | VVEL | 46 |
| 29 | Absolute vorticity on pressure surface | isobaric | ABSV | 10 |
| 30 | Geostrophic streamfunction on pressure surface | isobaric | STRM | 2 |
| 31 | Turbulent kinetic energy on pressure surface | isobaric | TKE | 46 |
| 32 | Cloud ice mixing ratio on pressure surface | isobaric | ICMR | 46 |
| 33 | Cloud water mixing ratio on pressure surface | isobaric | CLWMR | 46 |
| 34 | Rain mixing ratio on pressure surface | isobaric | RWMR | 46 |
| 35 | Graupel mixing ratio on pressure surface | isobaric | GRLE | 46 |
| 36 | Snow mixing ratio on pressure surface | isobaric | SNMR | 46 |
| 37 | Rimming factor for Ferrier scheme on pressure surface | isobaric | RIME | 46 |
| 38 | Mesinger (Membrane) sea level pressure | mean sea level | MSLET | 1 |
| 39 | Shuell sea level pressure | mean sea level | PRES | 1 |
| 40 | Temperature at 2m | height agl | TMP | 1 |
| 41 | Specific humidity at 2m | height agl | SPFH | 1 |
| 42 | Dew point temperature at 2m | height agl | DPT | 1 |
| 43 | Relative humidity at 2m | height agl | RH | 1 |
| 44 | U component of wind at 10m | height agl | UGRD | 1 |
| 45 | V component of wind at 10m | height agl | VGRD | 1 |
| 46 | Surface wind gust | surface | GUST | 1 |
| 47 | LCL level pressure | pressure layer agl | PLPL | 1 |
| 48 | Potential temperature at 10m | height agl | POT | 1 |
| 49 | Specific humidity at 10m | height agl | SPFH | 1 |
| 50 | Surface Pressure | surface | PRES | 1 |
| 51 | Terrain height | surface | HGT | 1 |
| 52 | Skin potential temperature | surface | POT | 1 |
| 53 | Skin specific humidity | surface | SPFH | 1 |
| 54 | Skin temperature | surface | TMP | 1 |
| 55 | Soil temperature at 3m | depth below land surface | TSOIL | 1 |
| 56 | Soil temperature in between each soil layer | depth below land surface | TSOIL | 4 |
| 57 | Soil moisture in between each soil layer | depth below land surface | SOILW | 4 |
| 58 | Liquid soil moisture in between each soil layer | depth below land surface | SOILL | 4 |
| 59 | Total soil moisture | depth below land surface | SOILM | 1 |
| 60 | Plant canopy surface water | surface | CNWAT | 1 |
| 61 | Snow water equivalent | surface | WEASD | 1 |
| 62 | Snow cover in percentage | surface | SNOWC | 1 |
| 63 | Heat exchange coeff at surface | surface | SFEXC | 1 |
| 64 | Vegetation cover | surface | VEG | 1 |
| 65 | Vegetation type | surface | VGTYP | 1 |
| 66 | Soil type | surface | SOTYP | 1 |
| 67 | Snow free albedo | surface | SNFALB | 1 |
| 68 | Maximum snow albedo | surface | MXSALB | 1 |
| 69 | Canopy conductance | surface | CCOND | 1 |
| 70 | Canopy conductance - solar component | surface | RCS | 1 |
| 71 | Canopy conductance - temperature component | surface | RCT | 1 |
| 72 | Canopy conductance - humidity component | surface | RCQ | 1 |
| 73 | Canopy conductance - soil component | surface | RCSOL | 1 |
| 74 | Soil moist reference | surface | SMREF | 1 |
| 75 | Soil moist porosity | surface | POROS | 1 |
| 76 | Number of root layers | surface | RLYRS | 1 |
| 77 | Minimum stomatal resistance | surface | RSMIN | 1 |
| 78 | Snow depth | surface | SNOD | 1 |
| 79 | Air dry soil moisture | surface | SMDRY | 1 |
| 80 | Soil moist wilting point | surface | WILT | 1 |
| 81 | Soil moisture availability | depth below land surface | MSTAV | 1 |
| 82 | Ground heat flux (instantaneous) | surface | GFLUX | 1 |
| 83 | Lifted index—surface based (500-1000 hPa) | isobaric | LFTX | 1 |
| 84 | Lifted index—best | pressure above ground | 4LFTX | 1 |
| 85 | Lifted index—parcel | pressure above ground | PLI | 1 |
| 86 | Convective available potential energy | surface | CAPE | 1 |
| 87 | Best cape | pressure above ground | CAPE | 1 |
| 88 | Mixed layer cape | pressure above ground | CAPE | 1 |
| 89 | Unstable cape | pressure above ground | CAPE | 1 |
| 90 | Convective inhibition | surface | CIN | 1 |
| 91 | Best cin | pressure above ground | CIN | 1 |
| 92 | Mixed layer cin | pressure above ground | CIN | 1 |
| 93 | Unstable cin | pressure above ground | CIN | 1 |
| 94 | Column integrated precipitable water | entire atmosphere | PWAT | 1 |
| 95 | Helicity | height agl | HLCY | 2 |
| 96 | U component storm motion | height agl | USTM | 1 |
| 97 | V component storm motion | height agl | VSTM | 1 |
| 98 | Accumulated total precipitation | surface | APCP | 1 |
| 99 | Accumulated grid-scale precipitation | surface | NCPCP | 1 |
| 100 | Continuous accumulated total precipitation | surface | APCP | 1 |
| 101 | Continuous accumulated grid-scale precipitation | surface | NCPCP | 1 |
| 102 | Accumulated snowfall | surface | WEASD | 1 |
| 103 | Accumulated total snow melt | surface | SNOM | 1 |
| 104 | Accumulated storm surface runoff | surface | SSRUN | 1 |
| 105 | Accumulated base flow runoff | surface | BGRUN | 1 |
| 106 | Average water runoff | surface | WATR | 1 |
| 107 | Categorical rain (instantaneous) | surface | CRAIN | 1 |
| 108 | Categorical snow (instantaneous) | surface | CSNOW | 1 |
| 109 | Categorical ice pellets (instantaneous) | surface | CICEP | 1 |
| 110 | Categorical freezing rain (instantaneous) | surface | CFRZR | 1 |
| 111 | Precipitation rate (instantaneous) | surface | PRATE | 1 |
| 112 | Fraction of frozen precipitation | surface | CPOFP | 1 |
| 113 | Cloud water mixing ratio on model surface | hybrid | CLWMR | 2 |
| 114 | Cloud ice mixing ratio on model surface | hybrid | ICMR | 2 |
| 115 | Graupel mixing ratio on model surface | hybrid | GRLE | 1 |
| 116 | Cloud fraction on model surface | hybrid | TCDC | 2 |
| 117 | Low level cloud fraction | low cloud layer | LCDC | 1 |
| 118 | Mid level cloud fraction | mid cloud layer | MCDC | 1 |
| 119 | High level cloud fraction | high cloud layer | HCDC | 1 |
| 120 | Total cloud fraction | entire atmosphere | TCDC | 1 |
| 121 | Total cloud fraction (time-averaged) | entire atmosphere | TCDC | 1 |
| 122 | stratospheric cloud fraction (time-averaged) | entire atmosphere | CDLYR | 1 |
| 123 | Visibility | surface | VIS | 1 |
| 124 | GSD visibility | cloud top | VIS | 1 |
| 125 | Above-ground height of LCL | adiabatic condensation from surface | HGT | 1 |
| 126 | Pressure of LCL | adiabatic condensation from surface | PRES | 1 |
| 127 | Outgoing surface shortwave radiation (instantaneous) | surface | USWRF | 1 |
| 128 | Outgoing surface longwave radiation (instantaneous) | surface | ULWRF | 1 |
| 129 | Incoming surface shortwave radiation (time-averaged) | surface | DSWRF | 1 |
| 130 | Incoming surface longwave radiation (time-averaged) | surface | DLWRF | 1 |
| 131 | Outgoing surface shortwave radiation (time-averaged) | surface | USWRF | 1 |
| 132 | Outgoing surface longwave radiation (time-averaged) | surface | ULWRF | 1 |
| 133 | Outgoing model top shortwave radiation (time-averaged) | top of atmosphere | USWRF | 1 |
| 134 | Outgoing model top longwave radiation (time-averaged) | top of atmosphere | ULWRF | 1 |
| 135 | Outgoing longwave at top of atmosphere (instantaneous) | top of atmosphere | ULWRF | 1 |
| 136 | Total spectrum brightness temperature | top of atmosphere | BRTMP | 1 |
| 137 | Incoming surface shortwave radiation (instantaneous) | surface | DSWRF | 1 |
| 138 | Incoming surface longwave radiation (instantaneous) | surface | DLWRF | 1 |
| 139 | Clear sky incoming surface shortwave (instantaneous) | surface | CSDSF | 1 |
| 140 | Roughness length | surface | SFCR | 1 |
| 141 | Friction velocity | surface | FRICV | 1 |
| 142 | Surface drag coefficient | surface | CD | 1 |
| 143 | Surface u wind stress | surface | UFLX | 1 |
| 144 | Surface v wind stress | surface | VFLX | 1 |
| 145 | Surface sensible heat flux (time-averaged) | surface | SHTFL | 1 |
| 146 | Ground heat flux (time-averaged) | surface | GFLUX | 1 |
| 147 | Snow phase change heat flux (time-averaged) | surface | SNOHF | 1 |
| 148 | Surface latent heat flux (time-averaged) | surface | LHTFL | 1 |
| 149 | Accumulated surface evaporation | surface | EVP | 1 |
| 150 | Accumulated potential evaporation | surface | PEVAP | 1 |
| 151 | Surface sensible heat flux (instantaneous) | surface | SHTFL | 1 |
| 152 | Surface latent heat flux (instantaneous) | surface | LHTFL | 1 |
| 153 | Latitude | surface | NLAT | 1 |
| 154 | Longitude | surface | ELON | 1 |
| 155 | Land sea mask (land=1 sea=0) | surface | LAND | 1 |
| 156 | Sea ice mask | surface | ICEC | 1 |
| 157 | Surface albedo | surface | ALBDO | 1 |
| 158 | Sea surface temperature | surface | WTMP | 1 |
| 159 | Pressure at tropopause | tropopause | PRES | 1 |
| 160 | Height at tropopause | tropopause | HGT | 1 |
| 161 | Temperature at tropopause | tropopause | TMP | 1 |
| 162 | Potential temperature at tropopause | tropopause | POT | 1 |
| 163 | U component of wind at tropopause | tropopause | UGRD | 1 |
| 164 | V component of wind at tropopause | tropopause | VGRD | 1 |
| 165 | Wind shear at tropopause | tropopause | VWSH | 1 |
| 166 | U component of 0-6km level wind shear | height agl | VUCSH | 1 |
| 167 | V-component of 0-6km level wind shear | height agl | VVCSH | 1 |
| 168 | Temperature at flight levels | height msl | TMP | 10 |
| 169 | Temperature at flight levels | height agl | TMP | 4 |
| 170 | U component of wind at flight levels | height msl | UGRD | 10 |
| 171 | U component of wind at flight levels | height agl | UGRD | 4 |
| 172 | V component of wind at flight levels | height msl | VGRD | 10 |
| 173 | V component of wind at flight levels | height agl | VGRD | 4 |
| 174 | Specific humidity at flight levels | height msl | SPFH | 1 |
| 175 | Specific humidity at flight levels | height agl | SPFH | 4 |
| 176 | Pressure at flight levels | height agl | PRES | 4 |
| 177 | Freezing level height | 0 degree isotherm | HGT | 1 |
| 178 | Freezing level relative humidity | 0 degree isotherm | RH | 1 |
| 179 | Highest freezing level height | highest tropospheric frz lvl | HGT | 1 |
| 180 | Lowest wet bulb zero height | lowest lvl wet bulb zero | HGT | 1 |
| 181 | Pressure in boundary layer (30 mb means) | pressure agl | PRES | 6 |
| 182 | Temperature in boundary layer (30 mb means) | pressure agl | TMP | 6 |
| 183 | Potential temperature in boundary layer (30 mb means) | pressure agl | POT | 1 |
| 184 | Dew point temperature in boundary layer (30 mb means) | pressure agl | DPT | 1 |
| 185 | Specific humidity in boundary layer (30 mb means) | pressure agl | SPFH | 6 |
| 186 | RH in boundary layer (30 mb means) | pressure agl | RH | 6 |
| 187 | Moisture convergence in boundary layer (30 mb means) | pressure agl | MCONV | 1 |
| 188 | Precipitable water in boundary layer (30 mb means) | pressure agl | PWAT | 1 |
| 189 | U wind in boundary layer (30 mb means) | pressure agl | UGRD | 6 |
| 190 | V wind in boundary layer (30 mb means) | pressure agl | VGRD | 6 |
| 191 | Omega in boundary layer (30 mb means) | pressure agl | VVEL | 3 |
| 192 | Cloud bottom pressure | cloud base | PRES | 1 |
| 193 | Cloud top pressure | cloud top | PRES | 1 |
| 194 | Cloud top temperature | cloud top | TMP | 1 |
| 195 | Cloud bottom height (above MSL) | cloud base | HGT | 1 |
| 196 | Cloud top height (above MSL) | cloud top | HGT | 1 |
| 197 | Maximum wind pressure level | max wind | PRES | 1 |
| 198 | Maximum wind height | max wind | HGT | 1 |
| 199 | U-component of maximum wind | max wind | UGRD | 1 |
| 200 | V-component of maximum wind | max wind | VGRD | 1 |
| 201 | Composite radar reflectivity | entire atmosphere | REFC | 1 |
| 202 | Composite rain radar reflectivity | entire atmosphere | REFZR | 1 |
| 203 | Composite ice radar reflectivity | entire atmosphere | REFZI | 1 |
| 204 | Radar reflectivity at certain above ground heights | height agl | REFD | 2 |
| 205 | Radar reflectivity from rain | height agl | REFZR | 2 |
| 206 | Radar reflectivity from ice | height agl | REFZI | 2 |
| 207 | Planetary boundary layer height | surface | HPBL | 1 |
| 208 | Grid scale cloud bottom pressure | grid scale cloud bottom | PRES | 1 |
| 209 | Grid scale cloud top pressure | grid scale cloud top | PRES | 1 |
| 210 | Column integrated cloud water | entire atmosphere | TCOLW | 1 |
| 211 | Column integrated cloud ice | entire atmosphere | TCOLI | 1 |
| 212 | Column integrated rain | entire atmosphere | TCOLR | 1 |
| 213 | Column integrated snow | entire atmosphere | TCOLS | 1 |
| 214 | Column integrated total condensate | entire atmosphere | TCOLC | 1 |
| 215 | Column integrated graupel | entire atmosphere | TCOLG | 1 |
| 216 | Column integrated super cool liquid water | entire atmosphere | TCLSW | 1 |
| 217 | Column integrated melting ice | entire atmosphere | TCOLM | 1 |
| 218 | Height of lowest level super cool liquid water | lwst bot lvl of supercooled liq wtr | HGT | 1 |
| 219 | Height of highest level super cool liquid water | hghst top lvl of supercooled liq wtr | HGT | 1 |
| 220 | Ceiling height | cloud ceiling | HGT | 1 |
| 221 | Accumulated land surface model precipitation | surface | LSPA | 1 |
| 222 | Model top pressure | top of atmosphere | PRES | 1 |
| 223 | Total column shortwave temperature tendency | entire atmosphere | SWHR | 1 |
| 224 | Total column longwave temperature tendency | entire atmosphere | LWHR | 1 |
| 225 | Total column gridded temperature tendency | entire atmosphere | LRGHR | 1 |
| 226 | Column integrated moisture convergence | entire atmosphere | MCONV | 1 |
| 227 | Temperature on sigma levels | sigma level | TMP | 5 |
| 228 | Planetary boundary layer regime | surface | PBLREG | 1 |
| 229 | Transport wind u component | planetary boundary layer | UGRD | 1 |
| 230 | Transport wind v component | planetary boundary layer | VGRD | 1 |
| 231 | Richardson number planetary boundary layer height | planetary boundary layer | HGT | 1 |
| 232 | Mixing height | surface | MIXHT | 1 |
| 233 | Radar echo top | entire atmosphere | RETOP | 1 |
| 234 | Ventilation rate | planetary boundary layer | VRATE | 1 |
| 235 | Haines index | surface | HINDEX | 1 |
| 236 | Maximum 2m temperature | height agl | TMAX | 1 |
| 237 | Minimum 2m temperature | height agl | TMIN | 1 |
| 238 | Maximum 2m RH | height agl | MAXRH | 1 |
| 239 | Minimum 2m RH | height agl | MINRH | 1 |
| 240 | Maximum U-component wind at 10m | height agl | MAXUW | 1 |
| 241 | Maximum V-component wind at 10m | height agl | MAXVW | 1 |
| 242 | Maximum wind speed at 10m | height agl | WIND | 1 |
| 243 | Maximum 1km reflectivity | height agl | MAXREF | 1 |
| 244 | Maximum updraft vertical velocity | isobaric layer | MAXUVV | 1 |
| 245 | Maximum downdraft vertical velocity | isobaric layer | MAXDVV | 1 |
| 246 | Lightning | surface | LTNG | 1 |
| 247 | Radar derived vertically integrated liquid | entire atmosphere | VIL | 1 |
| 248 | Updraft helicity (2-5 km) | height agl | UPHL | 1 |
| 249 | Maximum updraft helicity (2-5 km) | height agl | MXUPHL | 1 |
| 250 | Minimum updraft helicity (2-5 km) | height agl | MNUPHL | 1 |
| 251 | Minimum updraft helicity (0-3 km) | height agl | MNUPHL | 1 |
| 252 | Maximum updraft helicity (0-3 km) | height agl | MXUPHL | 1 |
| 253 | Maximum relative vertical vorticity (0-1 km) | height agl | RELV | 1 |
| 254 | Maximum relative vertical vorticity at hybrid level 1 | hybrid | RELV | 1 |
| 255 | Maximum relative vertical vorticity (0-2 km) | height agl | RELV | 1 |
| 256 | Maximum derived radar reflectivity at -10 C | isothermal | MAXREF | 1 |
| 257 | Radar reflectivity at -10 C | isothermal | REFD | 1 |