.. _Section_FileType_subsets_aer:


Aerosol Subset
==============

| **DOI:** https://doi.org/10.5439/1905812
| **File type abbreviation:** ``aer``

The aerosol subset category contains variables extracted from the raw wrfout files related to aerosol.
The data are on the raw model levels listed in :numref:`TableSubsetLevels`.

.. list-table:: Variables in the aerosol subset files
    :name: TableSubsetAer
    :header-rows: 1
    :class: tight-table

    * - Variable Name
      - Description
    * - QNWFA2D
      - surface emissions of water friendly aerosol
    * - QNIFA2D
      - surface eissions of ice friendly aerosol
    * - QNWFA
      - water friendly aerosol number concentration
    * - QNIFA
      - ice friendly aerosol number concentration