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.

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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)