Surface Subset

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5439/1905835

File type abbreviation: sfc

The surface subset category contains variables extracted from the raw wrfout files related to the surface layer and soil state. The 3-D variables in this file are on the soil model levels.

Table 33 Variables in the surface subset files

Variable Name	Description
TSLB	soil temperature
SMOIS	soil moisture
SH2O	soil liquid water
SMCREL	relative soil moisture
SFROFF	surface runoff
UDROFF	underground runoff
GRDFLX	ground heat flux
ACGRDFLX	accumulated ground heat flux
ACSNOM	accumulated melted snow
NOAHRES	residual of Noah surface energy budget
TMN	soil temperature at lower boundary
SNOALB	snow albedo
SNOW	snow water equivalent
SNOWH	snow height
CANWAT	canopy water
LAI	leaf-area index
TSK	skin temperature
HFX	surface sensible heat flux
LH	surface latent heat flux