Aerosol Subset

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 Table 20.

Table 21 Variables in the aerosol subset files

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