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Available parameters

NOTE: For details about the GRIB encoding used for these parameters in the different CDS datasets, please visit Parameters GRIB encoding details

Parameter name	ECMWF		Météo-France			Met Office		DWD		CMCC		NCEP	JMA
Parameter name	System 4	SEAS5	System 5	System 6	System 7	GloSea5-GC2	GloSea5-GC2 (C3S-0.1 netcdf) & GloSea5-GC2-LI	GCFS2.0	GCFS2.1	SPSv3	SPSv3.5	CFSv2	CPS2
Single level parameters
Static fields
Surface Altitude
Land area fraction
6-hourly
2 metre temperature
2 metre dewpoint temperature
10 metre U wind component
10 metre V wind component
Mean sea level pressure
Total cloud cover												⁽⁵⁾
Soil temperature							⁽²⁾						⁽⁸⁾
Sea-surface temperature													⁽⁸⁾
Sea-ice temperature				⁽¹⁾	⁽¹⁾		⁽¹⁾	⁽¹⁾	⁽¹⁾	⁽¹⁾	⁽¹⁾
24-hourly
Sea-ice cover												⁽⁵⁾	⁽⁸⁾
Snow depth												⁽⁶⁾
Snow density
2 metre maximum temperature
2 metre minimum temperature
10 metre wind gust
Total precipitation (or large-scale & convective precipitation)
Snowfall
Surface sensible heat flux
Surface latent heat flux
Surface solar radiation downwards
Surface thermal radiation downwards
Surface net solar radiation
Surface net thermal radiation
Top net solar radiation
Top incoming solar radiation
Top net thermal radiation
Eastward turbulent surface stress
Northward turbulent surface stress
Evaporation
Runoff (or surface&sub-surface runoff)												⁽⁶⁾
Pressure level parameters at 925, 850, 700, 500, 400, 300, 200, 100, 50, 30 and 10 (hPa)
12-hourly
Geopotential			⁽³⁾						⁽⁷⁾		⁽⁷⁾	⁽⁴⁾	⁽⁹⁾
Temperature			⁽³⁾						⁽⁷⁾		⁽⁷⁾	⁽⁴⁾	⁽⁹⁾
Specific humidity			⁽³⁾						⁽⁷⁾		⁽⁷⁾		⁽⁹⁾
U component of wind			⁽³⁾						⁽⁷⁾		⁽⁷⁾	⁽⁴⁾	⁽⁹⁾
V component of wind			⁽³⁾						⁽⁷⁾		⁽⁷⁾	⁽⁴⁾	⁽⁹⁾

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