# LATS PARAMETER TABLE automatically generated by lats4d # # Example Usage: lats4d -i 000000.nc -o 000000 -format grads_grib -table default.grads.lats.table -v # (where this file is named default.grads.lats.table and is in the current directory) # # Notes: The output file is called 000000.grb # To run the lats4d conversion netCDF to GRIB, you need to set up GrADs (and get the # lats4d script that goes with it, though there's no installation required). # # For additional information on GrADs consult http://dao.gsfc.nasa.gov/software/grads/ # LATS4D http://dao.gsfc.nasa.gov/software/grads/lats4d # LATS http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/software/lats # # Note: This table lacks the UNITS and GRIB decimal_scale_factor columns. # It also does not include QC information. For additional # information on LATS parameter tables consult: # http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/software/lats/ #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # # The sections may appear in any order. The center section is only required for GRIB output. # # #!variable # # Variable table: defines variable-specific parameters # # #!vert # # Vertical dimension type table: defines categories of vertical dimensions # # #!center # # Center table: defines GRIB parameters which identify the originating process, center, and subcenter. # # #!qc # # Quality control marks table: defines the values controlling the quality control routines. # #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #!variable # # Variables # (max number of entries = LATS_MAX_PARMS in lats.h) # # The format of each record is: # name | id | title | units | datatype | surface | decimal_scale_factor | precision | comments_1 | comments_2 # # name = variable name (no blanks) # id = GRIB parameter number (>127 => AMIP-2 specific) # title = long name (description) # units = variable units # datatype = float or int # level_type = level_type in vertical dimension table, or blank if values must be defined via lats_vert_dim # decimal_scale_factor = GRIB decimal scale factor, or -999 if no decimal scaling # precision = number of bits of precision if stored in GRIB, # or -999 for level-dependent bit length (ignored if decimal_scale_factor is set) # comments_1 = comments, ignored by LATS # comments_2 = comments, ignored by LATS # #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- sfcpres | 2 | Surface Pressure | Pa | float | sfc | -999 | 16 | | | slp | 1 | Sea Level Pressure | Pa | float | sfc | -999 | 16 | | | air | 11 | Air Temperature | K | float | | -999 | 16 | | | hgt | 7 | Geopotential Height | m | float | | -999 | 16 | | | omega | 39 | Pressure Vertical Velocity | Pa/s | float | | -999 | 16 | | | shum | 51 | Specific Humidity | kg/kg | float | | -999 | 16 | | | uwnd | 33 | Zonal Wind | m/s | float | | -999 | 16 | | | vwnd | 34 | Meridional Wind | m/s | float | | -999 | 16 | | | #-12-14-11 added by Lee: rhum | 52 | Relative Humidity | % | float | | -999 | 16 | | | tcdc | 71 | Total cloud cover | % | float |sfc | -999 | 16 | | | #tcdc | 71 | low cloud level Total cloud cover | % | float |clllay | -999 | 16 | | | #tcdc | 71 | mid cloud level Total cloud cover | % | float |clmlay | -999 | 16 | | | #tcdc | 71 | high cloud level Total cloud cover | % | float |clhlay | -999 | 16 | | | snowc |238 | snow cover | % | float |sfc | -999 | 16 | | | prate |59 | 3-hour surface precip rate | kg/m^2/s | float |sfc | -999 | 16 | | | #air |11 | Surface temp | K | float |sfc2m | -999 | 16 | | | #uwnd | 33 | 10 m u wind | m/s | float |sfc10m | -999 | 16 | | | #vwnd | 34 | 10 m v wind | m/s | float |sfc10m | -999 | 16 | | | #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #! vert # Vertical dimension types # (max number of entries = LATS_MAX_VERT_TYPES in lats.h) # # The format of each record is: # level_type | description | units | verticality | positive | default | GRIB_id | GRIB_p1 | GRIB_p2 | GRIB_p3 # # level_type = level type # description = level description # units = units for this level type # verticality = single (single surface) or multi (variable can have multiple levels of this type) # positive = up (increasing values point up) or down (increasing values point down) # GRIB_id = GRIB level type indicator (PDS octet 10) # GRIB_p1 = GRIB PDS octet 11 # GRIB_p2 = GRIB PDS octet 12 # GRIB_p3 = combined GRIB octets 11, 12 - overrides values of GRIB_p1, GRIB_p2 if specified 0degiso | 0 deg isotherm | hPa | single | up | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 atm | Atmosphere (entire) | | single | up | 200 | 0 | 0 | 0 ocn | Ocean (entire depth) | | single | up | 201 | 0 | 0 | 0 clhbot | High Cloud Bottom Level | hPa | single | up | 232 | 0 | 0 | 0 clhlay | High Cloud Top Layer | | single | up | 234 | 0 | 0 | 0 clhtop | High Cloud Top Level | hPa | single | up | 233 | 0 | 0 | 0 cllbot | Low Cloud Bottom Level | hPa | single | up | 212 | 0 | 0 | 0 clllay | Low Cloud Top Layer | | single | up | 214 | 0 | 0 | 0 clltop | Low Cloud Top Level | hPa | single | up | 213 | 0 | 0 | 0 clmbot | Mid Cloud Bottom Level | hPa | single | up | 222 | 0 | 0 | 0 clmlay | Mid Cloud Top Layer | | single | up | 224 | 0 | 0 | 0 clmtop | Mid Cloud Top Level | hPa | single | up | 223 | 0 | 0 | 0 cltbot | Cloud base level | hPa | single | up | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 cltlay | Total Cloud layer | | single | up | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 cltmax | Highest Cloud height | m | single | up | 105 | 0 | 0 | 0 landd | Below ground, 10 to 200 cm| | single | up | 112 |10 |200 | 0 lands | Below ground, 0 to 10 cm | | single | up | 112 | 0 | 10 | 0 landt | Below ground, 0 to 200 cm| | single | up | 112 | 0 |200 | 0 lcl | Adiabatic cond level | hPa | single | up | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 maxwnd | Maximum wind speed level | hPa | single | up | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 msl | Mean Sea Level | | single | up | 102 | 0 | 0 | 0 ocnbot | Ocean bottom | | single | up | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 plev | Pressure level | hPa | multi | down | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 pbltop | Top of PBL | | single | up | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 sfc | Earth surface | | single | up | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 sfclo | Sfc Layer Ocean | | single | up | 112 | 0 |300 | 0 sfc10m | 10 meters above earth surface| m | single | up | 105 | 0 | 0 | 10 sfc2m | 2 meters above earth surface| m | single | up | 105 | 0 | 0 | 2 toa | Top of atmosphere | | single | up | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 modtop | Top of Model | | single | up | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 toasat | TOA satellite | | single | up | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 troplev | Tropopause level | hPa | single | up | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 theta | Isentropic Level | K | multi | up | 113 | 0 | 0 | 0 sigma | Sigma level | | multi | down | 107 | 0 | 0 | 0 hybrid | Hybrid Model level number | | multi | up | 109 | 0 | 0 | 0 zocean | Depth below sea level | m | multi | down | 160 | 0 | 0 | 0 #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #! Center # Modeling centers (GRIB only) # (max number of entries = LATS_MAX_CENTERS in lats.h) # # The format of each record is: # center | GRIB_id | GRIB_center | GRIB_subcenter # # center = mnemonic for the center # GRIB_id = GRIB generating process id (PDS octet 6) # GRIB_center = the id of center managing the data (for AMIP II this is PCMDI) - see GRIB Table 0 # GRIB_subcenter = the id of the subcenter # # # Acronym AMIP Group Location # ------- ---------- -------- # # bmrc Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre Melbourne, Australia # ccc Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis Victoria, Canada # ccsr Center for Climate System Research Tokyo, Japan # cnrm Centre National de Recherches Meteorologiques Toulouse, France # cola Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies Calverton, Maryland # csiro Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization Mordialloc, Australia # csu Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado # derf Dynamical Extended Range Forecasting (at GFDL) Princeton, New Jersey # dnm Department of Numerical Mathematics Moscow, Russia # ecmwf European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Reading, England # gfdl Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Princeton, New Jersey # giss Goddard Institute for Space Studies New York, New York # gla Goddard Laboratory for Atmospheres Greenbelt, Maryland # gsfc Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland # iap Institute of Atmospheric Physics Beijing, China # jma Japan Meteorological Agency Tokyo, Japan # llnl Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, California # lmd Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique Paris, France # mgo Main Geophysical Observatory St. Petersburg, Russia # mpi Max-Planck-Institut fur Meteorologie Hamburg, Germany # mri Meteorological Research Institute Ibaraki-ken, Japan # ncar National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder, Colorado # nmc National Meteorological Center Suitland, Maryland # nrl Naval Research Laboratory Monterey, California # ntu National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan # pcmdi Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, LLNL Livermore, California # rpn Recherche en Privision Numerique Dorval, Canada # sunya State University of New York at Albany Albany, New York # sunya/ncar State University of New York at Albany/NCAR Albany, New York/Boulder, Colorado # ucla University of California at Los Angeles Los Angeles, California # ugamp The UK Universities Global Atmospheric Modelling Programme Reading, England # uiuc University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, Illinois # ukmo United Kingdom Meteorological Office Bracknell, UK # yonu Yonsei University Seoul, Korea # bmrc | 1 | 100 | 2 ccc | 2 | 100 | 2 cnrm | 3 | 100 | 2 cola | 4 | 100 | 2 csiro | 5 | 100 | 2 csu | 6 | 100 | 2 dnm | 7 | 100 | 2 ecmwf | 8 | 100 | 2 gfdl | 9 | 100 | 2 derf | 10 | 100 | 2 giss | 11 | 100 | 2 gla | 12 | 100 | 2 gsfc | 13 | 100 | 2 iap | 14 | 100 | 2 jma | 15 | 100 | 2 lmd | 16 | 100 | 2 mgo | 17 | 100 | 2 mpi | 18 | 100 | 2 mri | 19 | 100 | 2 ncar | 20 | 100 | 2 ncep | 21 | 100 | 2 nrl | 22 | 100 | 2 rpn | 23 | 100 | 2 sunya | 24 | 100 | 2 sunya/ncar| 25 | 100 | 2 ucla | 26 | 100 | 2 ugamp | 27 | 100 | 2 uiuc | 28 | 100 | 2 ukmo | 29 | 100 | 2 yonu | 30 | 100 | 2 ccsr | 31 | 100 | 2 llnl | 32 | 100 | 2 ntu | 33 | 100 | 2 cptec | 46 | 100 | 2 pcmdi | 100 | 100 | 2 #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #!qc # Quality control marks # (no limit on number of entries) # # The format of each record is: # variable | level_type | level | mean | std | tolerance | range | rangetol # # variable = variable name # level_type = type of level, as defined in the leveltypes section, or blank if no associated level # level = level value, or blank if no specified level # mean = observed mean at specified level # std = observed standard deviation at specified level # tolerance = number of standard deviations about mean # (if abs(calculated_mean - mean) > (std * tolerance), flag the value as meanoutofrange) # range = observed (maximum - minimum) # rangetol = range tolerance: # (if calculated_range > (rangetol * range), flag as rangeistoolarge) # NOTE: no QC table yet #