CDS parameter name | ESGF variable id | Units |
2m temperature | tas | Kelvin |
Maximum 2m temperature in the last 24 hours | tasmax | Kelvin |
Minimum 2m temperature in the last 24 hours | tasmin | Kelvin |
| Skin temperature | ts | Kelvin |
| Mean sea level pressure | psl | Pa |
| Surface pressure | ps | Pa |
| 10m u component of wind | uas | m s-1 |
| 10m v component of wind | vas | m s-1 |
| 10m wind speed | sfcWind | m s-1 |
| 2m relative humidity | hurs | 1 |
| 2m specific humidity | huss | 1 |
| Mean precipitation flux | pr | kg m-2 s-1 |
| Snowfall | prsn | kg m-2 s-1 |
| Evaporation | evspsbl | kg m-2 s-1 |
| Eastward turbulent surface stress | tauu | Pa |
| Northward turbulent surface stress | tauv | Pa |
| Surface latent heat flux | hfls | W m-2 |
| Surface sensible heat flux | hfss | W m-2 |
| Surface thermal radiation downwards | rlds | W m-2 |
Surface upwelling longwave radiation | rlus | W m-2 |
Surface solar radiation downwards | rsds | W m-2 |
Surface upwelling shortwave radiation | rsus | W m-2 |
TOA incident solar radiation | rsdt | W m-2 |
| TOA outgoing shortwave radiation | rsut | W m-2 |
| TOA outgoing longwave radiation | rlut | W m-2 |
| Total cloud cover | clt | 1 |
| Air temperature | ta | K |
| U-component of wind | ua | m s-1 |
| V-component of wind | va | m s-1 |
| Relative humidity | hur | 1 |
| Specific humidity | hus | 1 |
| Geopotential height | zg | m |
| Surface snow amount | snw | kg m-2 |
| Snow depth? | snd | m |
| Runoff | mrro | kg m-2 s-1 |
| Soil moisture content | mrsos | kg m-2 |
| Sea-ice are percentage? | siconc | 1 |
| Sea ice thickness | sithick | m |
| Sea ice plus snow amount | simass | kg m-2 |
| Sea ice surface temperature | sitemptop | K |
| Sea surface temperature | tos | K |
| Sea surface salinity? | sos | 1e-3 |
| Sea surface height above geoid | zos | m |
| Grid-cell area for atmospheric grid variables?? | areacello | m2 |
| Sea area percentage? | sftof | % |
| Grid-cell area for ocean variables?? | areacella | m2 |
| Capacity of soil to store water? | mrsofc | kg m-2 |
| Percentage of grid cell occupied by land (including lakes)? | sftlf | % |
| Land ice area percentage? | sftgif | 1 |
| Orography | orog | m |