Cloud HAMSL Subset

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5439/1905816

File type abbreviation: cldhamsl

The cloud height-above-mean-sea-level (HAMSL) subset category contains the same variables extracted from the raw wrfout files as the cld subset. The difference is that the cldhamsl data are interpolated to levels above mean-sea level as listed in Table 20.

Table 24 Variables in the cloud-HAMSL subset files

Variable Name	Description
QCLOUD	cloud-water mixing ratio
QRAIN	rainwater mixing ratio
QICE	ice crystal mixing ratio
QSNOW	snow mixing ratio
QGRAUP	graupel mixing ratio
QNICE	ice number concentration
QNRAIN	raindrop number concentration
QNCLOUD	cloud droplet number concentration
REFL_10CM	radar reflectivity, λ=10 cm
CLDFRA	radiative cloud fraction
LWP	liquid water path
IWP	ice water path
PRECIPWATER	precipitable water