GRIB2 - TABLE 4.2

  PARAMETER NUMBER BY PRODUCT DISCIPLINE
AND PARAMETER CATEGORY


Revised 09/14/2009
Red text depicts changes made since 08/02/2009



Product Discipline 0, Meteorological products
Parameter Category 0 Temperature
Parameter Category 1 Moisture
Parameter Category 2 Momentum
Parameter Category 3 Mass
Parameter Category 4 Short wave radiation
Parameter Category 5 Long wave radiation
Parameter Category 6 Cloud
Parameter Category 7 Thermodynamic stability indices
Parameter Category 13 Aerosols
Parameter Category 14 Trace gases (e.g. Ozone, CO2)
Parameter Category 15 Radar
Parameter Category 16 Forecast Radar Imagery
Parameter Category 18 Nuclear/radiology
Parameter Category 19
Physical atmospheric properties
Parameter Category 20 Atmospheric Chemical Constituents
Parameter Category 190 CCITT IA5 string
Parameter Category 191 Miscellaneous
Parameter Category 192 Covariance

Product Discipline 1, Hydrologic products
Parameter Category 0 Hydrology basic products
Parameter Category 1 Hydrology probabilities

Product Discipline 2, Land Surface products
Parameter Category 0 Vegetation/Biomass
Parameter Category 1
Agricultural/aquacultural special products
Parameter Category 2
Transportation related products
Parameter Category 3
Soil products
Parameter Category 192 Fire Weather

Product Discipline 3, Space products
Parameter Category 0 Image format products
Parameter Category 1
Quantitative products
Parameter Category 192 Forecast Satellite Imagery

Product Discipline 10, Oceanographic products
Parameter Category 0 Waves
Parameter Category 1
Currents
Parameter Category 2
Ice
Parameter Category 3
Surface properties
Parameter Category 4
Sub-surface properties

NOTE: By convention, the flux sign is positive if downdards.



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