GRIB | Level| Level| Level| metgrid | metgrid | metgrid | Code | Code | 1 | 2 | Name | Units | Description | -----+------+------+------+----------+----------+------------------------------------------+ 11 | 100 | * | | TT | K | Temperature | 33 | 100 | * | | UU | m s-1 | U | 34 | 100 | * | | VV | m s-1 | V (from .3D file) | 51 | 100 | * | | SPECHUMD | kg kg-1 | | 52 | 100 | * | | RH | % | Relative Humidity | 7 | 100 | * | | HGT | m | Height | 11 | 105 | 2 | | TT | K | Temperature (from .flx file) | 52 | 105 | 2 | | RH | % | Relative Humidity (from .flx file) | 33 | 105 | 10 | | UU | m s-1 | U (from .flx file) | 34 | 105 | 10 | | VV | m s-1 | V (from .flx file) | 1 | 1 | 0 | | PSFC | Pa | Surface Pressure (from .sfc file) | 130 | 102 | 0 | | PMSL | Pa | Sea-level Pressure (from .flx file) | 65 | 1 | 0 | | SNOW | kg m-2 | Water Equiv of Accum Snow Depth (.sfc) | 11 | 1 | 0 | | SKINTEMP | K | Sea-Surface Temperature (from .sfc file) | 223 | 1 | 0 | | CANWAT | kg m-2 | Plant Canopy Surface Water (.sfc file) | 85 | 112 | 0 | 10 | ST000010 | K | T of 0-10 cm ground layer (.flx file) | 85 | 112 | 10 | 40 | ST010040 | K | T of 10-40 cm ground layer (.flx file) | 85 | 112 | 40 |100 | ST040100 | K | T of 40-100 cm ground layer (.flx file) | 85 | 112 | 100 |200 | ST100200 | K | T of 100-200 cm ground layer (.flx file) | 144 | 112 | 0 | 10 | SM000010 | fraction | Soil Moisture of 0-10 cm gnd layer (.flx)| 144 | 112 | 10 | 40 | SM010040 | fraction | Soil Moisture of 10-40 cm ground layer | 144 | 112 | 40 |100 | SM040100 | fraction | Soil Moisture of 40-100 cm ground layer | 144 | 112 |100 |200 | SM100200 | fraction | Soil Moisture of 100-200 cm ground layer | 81 | 1 | 0 | | LANDSEA | proprtn | Land/Sea flag (from .fixed file)| 7 | 1 | 0 | | SOILHGT | m | Terrain from source analysis | -----+------+------+------+----------+----------+------------------------------------------+ # # # North American Regional Reanalysis, 32 km (Grid 221), 29 p-levels (1000 - 100 hPa) plus sfc # # There is a mismatch between the landmask and the soil moisture fields along the # western shore of Hudson Bay in the NARR output. To account for this problem, the # following line should be added to the SM entries in METGRID.TBL # name= SM000010, SM010040, SM040100, SM100200 # # missing_value=-1.e30 # # # http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/rreanl/ # http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/cdc/data.narr.html # # The last 4 entries in the Vtable (LANDSEA, SOILHGT, SOILCAT, and VEGCAT) can be # obtained from the fixed files at http://wwwt.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/rreanl/index.html # (or from the NCAR archive), then 1) Run ungrib on the .fixed file and an initial time # of 1979-11-08_00. 2) rename the output file (NARR.CONSTANTS is a good choice; # i.e. mv FILE:1979-11-08_00 NARR.CONSTANTS) 3) Run ungrib on the .flx, .3D, and .sfc files # (or your NCDC grib files) 4) Run metgrid with constants_name = NARR.CONSTANTS in the namelist # # Note that U and V in NARR output are earth relative