Meteorology Pressure Subset

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5439/1905825

File type abbreviation: metpres

The meteorology pressure subset category contains similar variables extracted from the raw wrfout files as for the met subset. The same variables are also available on height-above-ground-level and height-above-mean-sea-level levels. levels. The primary difference is that the metpres data are interpolated to pressure levels as listed in Table 20.

Table 29 Variables in the meteorology-pressure subset files

Variable Name	Description
HGT	terrain height
MUTOT	dry air mass in column
PRESSURE	pressure
ALT	inverse density
TEMPERATURE	temperature
THETA	potential temperature
THETA_E	equivalent potential temperature
QVAPOR	water vapor mixing ratio
RH	relative humidity with respect to water
UA	destaggred U-wind component
VA	destaggered V-wind component
WA	destaggered vertical velocity
UMET	earth-relative westerly wind component
VMET	earth-relative southerly wind component
POTVORT	potential vorticity
PSFC	surface pressure
SLP	sea-level pressure
Q2	2-m water vapor mixing ratio
T2	2-m temperature
TH2	2-m potential temperature
U10	10-m U-wind component
V10	10-m V-wind component
UMET10	10-m earth-relative westerly wind component
VMET10	10-m earth-relative southerly wind component
RAINC	accumulated convective surface precipitation (D1 only)
RAINNC	accumulated non-convective surface precipitation
SNOWNC	accumulated surface snow
GRAUPELNC	accumulated surface graupel
SR	fraction of frozen precipitation
MLLCL	mixed-layer lifting condensation level
MLLFC	mixed-layer level of free convection
MLLNB	mixed-layer level of neutral buoyancy
MLLPL	mixed-layer lifted parcel level
MLCAPE	mixed-layer convective available potential energy
MLCIN	mixed-layer convective inhibition
MULCL	most-unstable lifting condensation level
MULFC	most-unstable level of free convection
MULNB	most-unstable level of neutral buoyancy
MULPL	most-unstable lifted parcel level
MUCAPE	most-unstable convective available potential energy
MUCIN	most-unstable convective inhibition