| TIMESTEP | ADDITIONAL DIAGNOSTICS | INITIAL DIAGNOSTICS LIST | FILE FORMAT EXAMPLES |
1) TIMESTEP
The whole list of diagnostics will be requested, for SCMs, on
the timestep of SCM runs, which should match the parent GCM timestep, for
CRMs, on a 30 min average timestep.
2) ADDITIONAL DIAGNOSTICS
With regards to EUROCS goals, we also decided to add some diagnostics
to the GCSS-ARM list. They are listed in the table below.
| additional diagnostic field | units | file name | suggested format
(see also 4) |
| resolved water vapor flux: rho* w'q' | (kg m-2 s-1) | a*.p40.simulation_name | (E12.4) |
| subgrid water vapor flux: rho* w"q" |
|
a*.p41.simulation_name |
|
| resolved heat flux : rho*cp* w'x' |
|
a*.p42.simulation_name |
|
| subgrid heat flux : rho*cp* w"x" |
|
a*.p43.simulation_name |
|
| resolved variance of w : w'w' |
|
a*.p44.simulation_name |
|
| subgrid variance of w : w"w" |
|
a*.p45.simulation_name |
|
| radiative heating rate |
|
a*.p46.simulation_name |
|
| SW heating |
|
a*.p47.simulation_name |
|
| LW heating |
|
a*.p48.simulation_name |
|
| evaporation of raindrops |
|
a*.p49.simulation_name |
|
3) INITIAL DIAGNOSTICS LIST
As a reminder, the initial diagnostics list, still valid, included
the following.
3a. Time height series
| field | units | file name |
| pressure | (mb) | a*.p0.simulation_name |
| temperature |
|
a*.p1.simulation_name |
| water vapor mixing ratio |
|
a*.p2.simulation_name |
| relative humidity | (%) | a*.p3.simulation_name |
| cloud liquid water mixing ratio |
|
a*.p4.simulation_name |
| cloud ice water mixing ratio |
|
a*.p5.simulation_name |
| liquid rain mixing ratio |
|
a*.p6.simulation_name |
| snow mixing ratio |
|
a*.p7.simulation_name |
| graupel mixing ratio |
|
a*.p8.simulation_name |
| cloud fraction |
|
a*.p9.simulation_name |
| apparent heat source Q1 |
|
a*.p12.simulation_name |
| apparent moisture sink Q2 | (K day-1) | a*.p13.simulation_name |
| cloud upward mass flux | (kg m-2 s-1) | a*.p23.simulation_name |
| cloud downward mass flux | (kg m-2 s-1) | a*.p24.simulation_name |
| hydrometeor fraction | (%/100) | a*.p30.simulation_name |
| large scale T advection | (K day-1) | a*.p31.simulation_name |
| large scale q advection | (K day-1) | a*.p32.simulation_name |
3b. Time seriesfile name: a*.t1.simulation name, includes the following:
| time | day of year |
| OLR | (W m-2) |
| cloud amount | (%/100) |
| cold cloud amount | (%/100) |
| precipitable water | (kg m-2) |
| liquid water path | (kg m-2) |
| ice water path | (kg m-2) |
| rainfall | (mm day-1) |
| convective rainfall | (mm day-1) |
| stratiform rainfall | (mm day-1) |
4) FILES FORMAT
The formats ("E12.5" or "F6.3" or ...) are only suggested.
The important thing however is that you manage to have at least one
white space between 2 consecutive values on a given line,
e. g.
"0.123E-2 0.222E-3" not
"0.123E-20.222E-3" .
see examples for time series and time-height series (from J. Petch files).