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NCEP GRIB code - CF Standard Name Mapping

GRIB code	NCEP name	Units		NCEP description	CF Standard Name
GRIB code	NCEP name	NCEP	CF	NCEP description	CF Standard Name
1	PRES	Pa	Pa	Pressure	`air_pressure`
2	PRMSL	Pa	Pa	Pressure reduced to MSL	`air_pressure_at_sea_level`
3	PTEND	Pa/s	Pa s-1	Pressure tendency	`tendency_of_air_pressure`
5	ICAHT	M		ICAO Standard Atmosphere Reference Hgt
6	GP	m2/s2	m2 s-2	Geopotential	`geopotential`
7	HGT	gpm	m	Geopotential height	`geopotential_height`
8	DIST	m	m	Geometric height	`altitude`
9	HSTDV	m		Standard deviation of height
10	TOZNE	Dobson	m	Total ozone	`equivalent_thickness_at_stp_of_atmosphere_o3_content`
11	TMP	K	K	Temperature	`air_temperature`
12	VTMP	K	K	Virtual temperature	`virtual_temperature`
13	POT	K	K	Potential temperature	`air_potential_temperature`
14	EPOT	K	K	Pseudo-adiabatic or equivalent potential temperature	`pseudo_equivalent_potential_temperature`
15	T MAX	K	K	Maximum temperature	`air_temperature` with a `cell_methods` attribute including time`: maximum within days`.
16	T MIN	K	K	Minimum temperature	`air_temperature` with a `cell_methods` attribute including time`: minimum within days`.
17	DPT	K	K	Dew point temperature	`dew_point_temperature`
18	DEPR	K	K	Dew point depression (or deficit)	`dew_point_depression`
19	LAPR	K/m	K m-1	Lapse rate	`air_temperature_lapse_rate`
20	VIS	m	m	Visibility	`visibility_in_air`
21	RDSP1	-		Radar Spectra (1)
22	RDSP2	-		Radar Spectra (2)
23	RDSP3	-		Radar Spectra (3)
24	PLI	K		Parcel lifted index (to 500 hPa)
25	TMP A	K	K	Temperature anomaly	`air_temperature_anomaly`
26	PRESA	Pa	Pa	Pressure anomaly	`air_pressure_anomaly`
27	GP A	gpm	m	Geopotential height anomaly	`geopotential_height_anomaly`
28	WVSP1	-		Wave Spectra (1)
29	WVSP2	-		Wave Spectra (2)
30	WVSP3	-		Wave Spectra (3)
31	WDIR	deg true	degree	Wind direction (from which blowing)	`wind_from_direction`
32	WIND	m/s	m s-1	Wind speed	`wind_speed`
33	U GRD	m/s	m s-1	u-component of wind	`eastward_wind`
34	V GRD	m/s	m s-1	v-component of wind	`northward_wind`
35	STRM	m2/s	m2 s-1	Stream function	`atmosphere_horizontal_streamfunction`
36	V POT	m2/s	m2 s-1	Velocity potential	`atmosphere_horizontal_velocity_potential`
37	MNTSF	m2/s2		Montgomery stream function
38	SGCVV	/s	s-1	Sigma coord. vertical velocity	`vertical_air_velocity_expressed_as_tendency_of_sigma`
39	V VEL	Pa/s	Pa s-1	Pressure Vertical velocity	`vertical_air_velocity_expressed_as_tendency_of_pressure`
40	DZDT	m/s	m s-1	Geometric Vertical velocity	`upward_air_velocity`
41	ABS V	/s	s-1	Absolute vorticity	`atmosphere_absolute_vorticity`
42	ABS D	/s		Absolute divergence
43	REL V	/s	s-1	Relative vorticity	`atmosphere_relative_vorticity`
44	REL D	/s	s-1	Relative divergence	`divergence_of_wind`
45	VUCSH	/s	s-1	Vertical u-component shear	`eastward_wind_shear`
46	VVCSH	/s	s-1	Vertical v-component shear	`northward_wind_shear`
47	DIR C	deg true	degree	Direction of current	`direction_of_sea_water_velocity`
48	SP C	m/s	m s-1	Speed of current	`sea_water_speed`
49	UOGRD	m/s	m s-1	u-component of current	`eastward_sea_water_velocity`
50	VOGRD	m/s	m s-1	v-component of current	`northward_sea_water_velocity`
51	SPF H	kg/kg	1	Specific humidity	`specific_humidity`
52	R H	%	1	Relative humidity	`relative_humidity`
53	MIXR	kg/kg	1	Humidity mixing ratio	`humidity_mixing_ratio`
54	P WAT	kg/m2	kg m-2	Precipitable water	`atmosphere_water_vapour_content`
55	VAPP	Pa	Pa	Vapor pressure	`water_vapour_pressure`
56	SAT D	Pa	Pa	Saturation deficit	`water_vapour_saturation_deficit`
57	EVP	kg/m2	kg m-2	Evaporation	`water_evaporation_amount`
58	C ICE	kg/m2	kg m-2	Cloud Ice	`atmosphere_cloud_ice_content`
59	PRATE	kg/m2/s	kg m-2 s-1	Precipitation rate	`precipitation_flux`
60	TSTM	%	1	Thunderstorm probability	`thunderstorm_probability`
61	A PCP	kg/m2	kg m-2	Total precipitation	`precipitation_amount`
62	NCPCP	kg/m2	kg m-2	Large scale precipitation (non-conv.)	`large_scale_precipitation_amount`
63	ACPCP	kg/m2	kg m-2	Convective precipitation	`convective_precipitation_amount`
64	SRWEQ	kg/m2/s	kg m-2 s-1	Snowfall rate water equivalent	`snowfall_flux`
65	WEASD	kg/m2	kg m-2	Water equiv. of accum. snow depth	`surface_snow_amount`
66	SNO D	m	m	Snow depth	`surface_snow_thickness`
67	MIXHT	m	m	Mixed layer depth	`ocean_mixed_layer_thickness`
68	TTHDP	m		Transient thermocline depth
69	MTHD	m		Main thermocline depth
70	MTH A	m		Main thermocline anomaly
71	T CDC	%	1	Total cloud cover	`cloud_area_fraction`
72	CDCON	%	1	Convective cloud cover	`convective_cloud_area_fraction`
73	L CDC	%	1	Low cloud cover	`low_cloud_area_fraction`
74	M CDC	%	1	Medium cloud cover	`medium_cloud_area_fraction`
75	H CDC	%	1	High cloud cover	`high_cloud_area_fraction`
76	C WAT	kg/m2	kg m-2	Cloud water	`atmosphere_cloud_condensed_water_content`
77	BLI	K		Best lifted index (to 500 hPa)
78	SNO C	kg/m2	kg m-2	Convective snow	`convective_snowfall_amount`
79	SNO L	kg/m2	kg m-2	Large scale snow	`large_scale_snowfall_amount`
80	WTMP	K	K	Water Temperature	`sea_water_temperature`
81	LAND	fraction	1	Land-sea mask(land=1;sea=0)	`land_area_fraction`
82	DSL M	m	m	Deviation of sea level from mean	`sea_surface_height_above_sea_level`
83	SFC R	m	m	Surface roughness	`surface_roughness_length`
84	ALBDO	%	1	Albedo	`surface_albedo`
85	TSOIL	K	K	Soil temperature	`soil_temperature`
86	SOIL M	kg/m2	kg m-2	Soil moisture content	`soil_moisture_content`
87	VEG	%	1	Vegetation	`vegetation_area_fraction`
88	SALTY	kg/kg	1e-3	Salinity	`sea_water_salinity`
89	DEN	kg/m3	kg m-3	Density	`density`
90	WATR	kg/m2	kg m-2	Water runoff	`surface_runoff_amount`
91	ICE C	fraction	1	Ice concentration (ice=1;no ice=0)	`sea_ice_area_fraction`
92	ICETK	m	m	Ice thickness	`sea_ice_thickness`
93	deg. true DICED		degree	Direction of ice drift	`direction_of_sea_ice_velocity`
94	SICED	m/s	m s-1	Speed of ice drift	`sea_ice_speed`
95	U ICE	m/s	m s-1	u-component of ice drift	`sea_ice_eastward_velocity`
96	V ICE	m/s	m s-1	v-component of ice drift	`sea_ice_northward_velocity`
97	ICE G	m/s	m s-1	Ice growth rate	`tendency_of_sea_ice_thickness_due_to_thermodynamics`
98	ICE D	/s	s-1	Ice divergence	`divergence_of_sea_ice_velocity`
99	SNO M	kg/m2	kg m-2	Snow melt	`surface_snow_melt_amount`
100	HTSGW	m	m	Significant height of combined wind waves and swell	`significant_height_of_wind_and_swell_waves`
101	WVDIR	deg true	degree	Direction of wind waves (from which)	`direction_of_wind_wave_velocity`
102	WVHGT	m	m	Significant height of wind waves	`significant_height_of_wind_waves`
103	WVPER	s	s	Mean period of wind waves	`wind_wave_period`
104	SWDIR	deg true	degree	Direction of swell waves	`direction_of_swell_wave_velocity`
105	SWELL	m	m	Significant height of swell waves	`significant_height_of_swell_waves`
106	SWPER	s	s	Mean period of swell waves	`swell_wave_period`
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/m2	W m-2	Net short-wave radiation (surface)	`surface_net_upward_shortwave_flux`
112	NLWRS	W/m2	W m-2	Net long wave radiation (surface)	`surface_net_upward_longwave_flux`
113	NSWRT		W m-2	Net short-wave radiation (top of atmos.) W/m2	`toa_net_upward_shortwave_flux`
114	NLWRT	W/m2	W m-2	Net long wave radiation (top of atmos.)	`toa_net_upward_longwave_flux`
115	LWAVR	W/m2	W m-2	Long wave radiation	`net_upward_longwave_flux_in_air`
116	SWAVR	W/m2	W m-2	Short wave radiation	`net_upward_shortwave_flux_in_air`
117	G RAD	W/m2	W m-2	Global radiation	`surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux`
118	BRTMP	K	K	Brightness temperature	`brightness_temperature`
119	LWRAD	W/srm2 ?		Long-wave radiation?
120	SWRAD	W/srm2 ?		Short-wave radiation?
121	LHTFL	W/m2	W m-2	Latent heat net flux	`surface_upward_latent_heat_flux`
122	SHTFL	W/m2	W m-2	Sensible heat net flux	`surface_upward_sensible_heat_flux`
123	BLYDP	W/m2		Boundary layer dissipation
124	U FLX	N/m2	Pa	Momentum flux, u component	`downward_eastward_momentum_flux_in_air`
125	V FLX	N/m2	Pa	Momentum flux, v component	`downward_northward_momentum_flux_in_air`
126	WMIXE	J	W m-2	Wind mixing energy	`wind_mixing_energy_flux_into_ocean`
127	IMG D			Image data
128	MSLSA	Pa		Mean Sea Level Pressure (Standard Atmosphere Reduction)
129	MSLMA	Pa		Mean Sea Level Pressure (MAPS System Reduction)
130	MSLET	Pa		Mean Sea Level Pressure (ETA Model Reduction)
131	LFT X	K		Surface lifted index
132	4LFTX	K		Best (4 layer) lifted index
133	K X	K		K index
134	S X	K		Sweat index
135	MCONV	kg/kg/s		Horizontal moisture divergence
136	VW SH	1/s	s-1	Vertical speed shear	`wind_speed_shear`
137	TSLSA	Pa/s		3-hr pressure tendency (Std. Atmos. Reduction)
138	BVF 2	1/s2		Brunt-Vaisala frequency (squared)
139	PV MW	1/s/m		Potential vorticity (density weighted)
140	CRAIN	(yes=1; no=0)		Categorical rain
141	CFRZR	(yes=1; no=0)		Categorical freezing rain
142	CICEP	(yes=1; no=0)		Categorical ice pellets
143	CSNOW	(yes=1; no=0)		Categorical snow
144	SOILW	fraction		Volumetric soil moisture content
145	PEVPR	W/m**2		Potential evaporation rate
146	CWORK	J/kg		Cloud workfunction
147	U-GWD	N/m**2		Zonal flux of gravity wave stress
148	V-GWD	N/m**2		Meridional flux of gravity wave stress
149	PV	m**2/s/kg		Potential vorticity
150	COVMZ	m2/s2		Covariance between meridional and zonal components of the wind. Defined as [uv]-[u][v], where "[]" indicates the mean over the indicated time span.
151	COVTZ1	K*m/s		Covariance between temperature and zonal component of the wind. Defined as [uT]-[u][T], where "[]" indicates the mean over the indicated time span.
152	COVTM	K*m/s		Covariance between temperature and meridional component of the wind. Defined as [vT]-[v][T], where "[]" indicates the mean over the indicated time span.
153	CLWMR	Kg/kg		Cloud water
154	O3MR	Kg/kg		Ozone mixing ratio
155	GFLUX	W/m2		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 indicated surface
160	CSUSF	W/m2		Clear Sky Upward Solar Flux
161	CSDSF	W/m2		Clear Sky Downward Solar Flux
162	CSULF	W/m2		Clear Sky upward long wave flux
163	CSDLF	W/m2		Clear Sky downward long wave flux
164	CFNSF	W/m2		Cloud forcing net solar flux
165	CFNLF	W/m2		Cloud forcing net long wave flux
166	VBDSF	W/m2		Visible beam downward solar flux
167	VDDSF	W/m2		Visible diffuse downward solar flux
168	NBDSF	W/m2		Near IR beam downward solar flux
169	NDDSF	W/m2		Near IR diffuse downward solar flux
172	M FLX	N/m2		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 (-90 to +90)
177	ELON	deg		east longitude (0-360)
181	LPS X	1/m		x-gradient of log pressure
182	LPS Y	1/m		y-gradient of log pressure
183	HGT X	m/m		x-gradient of height
184	HGT Y	m/m		y-gradient of height
189	VPTMP	K		Virtual potential temperature
190	HLCY	m2/s2		Storm relative helicity
191	PROB	numeric		Probability from ensemble
192	PROBN	numeric		Probability from ensemble normalized with respect to climate expectancy
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
201	ICWAT	%		Ice-free water surface
204	DSWRF	W/m2		downward short wave rad. flux
205	DLWRF	W/m2		downward long wave rad. flux
206	UVI	J/m2		Ultra violet index (1 hour integration centered at solar noon)
207	MSTAV	%		Moisture availability
208	SFEXC	(kg/m3)(m/s)		Exchange coefficient
209	MIXLY	integer		No. of mixed layers next to surface
211	USWRF	W/m2		upward short wave rad. flux
212	ULWRF	W/m2		upward long wave rad. flux
213	CDLYR	%		Amount of non-convective cloud
214	CPRAT	kg/m2/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		precip.index(0.0-1.00)(see note)
219	TSD1D	K		Std. dev. of IR T over 1x1 deg area
220	NLGSP	ln(kPa)		Natural log of surface pressure
221	HPBL	m		Planetary boundary layer height
222	5WAVH	gpm		5-wave geopotential height
223	C WAT	kg/m2		Plant canopy surface water
226	BMIXL	m		Blackadar's mixing length scale
227	AMIXL	m		Asymptotic mixing length scale
228	PEVAP	kg/m2		Potential evaporation
229	SNOHF	W/m2		Snow phase-change heat flux
231	MFLUX	Pa/s		Convective cloud mass flux
232	DTRF	W/m2		Downward total radiation flux
233	UTRF	W/m2		Upward total radiation flux
234	BGRUN	kg/m2		Baseflow-groundwater runoff
235	SSRUN	kg/m2		Storm surface runoff
237	03TOT	Kg/m2		Total ozone
238	SNO C	percent		Snow cover
239	SNO T	K		Snow temperature
241	LRGHR	K/s		Large scale condensat. 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/s2		Vertical diffusion zonal acceleration
248	VDFVA	m/s2		Vertical diffusion meridional accel
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

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