Boundary Layer Subset

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5439/1905829
File type abbreviation: pbl

The planetary boundary-layer subset category contains variables extracted from the raw wrfout files related to the boundary layer. The data are on the raw model levels listed in Table 20.

Table 31 Variables in the boundary-layer subset files

Variable Name

Description

UST

u* from similarity theory

PBLH

planetary boundary layer height

TKE

turbulent kinetic energy

XKMV

vertical eddy viscosity

XKMH

horizontal eddy viscosity

XKHV

vertical eddy diffusivity of heat

XKHH

horizontal eddy diffusivity of heat

TKE_PBL

turbulent kinetic energy from PBL scheme (D1 and D2 only)

EL_PBL

length scale from PBL parameterization (D1 and D2 only)