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Long forecasts are available from the forecasts initiated at 00 and 12 UTC. Long forecasts include forecast lengths of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27 and 30 hours.

Short forecasts of 1, 2 and 3 hours are made for the forecasts initiated at 03, 06, 09, 15, 18 and 21 UTC.

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Accumulated fluxes

Name

Short Name

Unit

Param ID

Analysis: 0,3,...,21

Forecast: 1,2,3,…

Height

Albedo

al

%

260509

yes**

yes

surface

Evaporation

eva

kg/m2

260259

no

yes

surface

Time integral of snow evaporation flux

tisef

kg/m2

235072

no

yes

surface

Surface sensible heat flux

sshf

J/m2

146

no

yes

surface

Surface latent heat flux

slhf

J/m2

147

no

yes

surface

Time integral of surface latent heat evaporation flux

tislhef

J/m2

235019

no

yes

surface

Time integral of surface latent heat sublimation flux

tislhsf

J/m2

235071

no

yes

surface

Direct solar radiation

dsrp

J/m2

47

no

yes

surface

Time-integrated surface direct short wave radiation flux

tidirswrf

J/m2

260264

no

yes

surface

Surface net solar radiation

ssr

J/m2

176

no

yes

surface

Surface solar radiation downwards

ssrd

J/m2

169

no

yes

surface

Surface net solar radiation, clear sky

ssrc

J/m2

210

no

yes

surface

Surface net thermal radiation

str

J/m2

177

no

yes

surface

Surface thermal radiation downwards

strd

J/m2

175

no

yes

surface

Surface net thermal radiation, clear sky

strc

J/m2

211

no

yes

surface

Top net solar radiation

tsr

J/m2

178

no

yes

surface

Top net thermal radiation

ttr

J/m2

179

no

yes

surface

Time integral of surface eastward momentum flux 

tisemf

kg⋅m/s

235017

no

yes

surface

Time integral of surface northward momentum flux

tisnmf

kg⋅m/s

235018

no

yes

surface

Pressure

Name

Short Name

Unit

Param ID

Analysis: 0,3,...,21

Forecast: 1,2,3,…

Height

Mean sea level pressure

msl

Pa

151

yes

yes

surface (scaled to sea level)

Surface pressure

sp

Pa

134

yes

yes

surface

Geometric cloud properties

Name

Short Name

Unit

Param ID

Analysis: 0,3,...,21

Forecast: 1,2,3,…

Height

High cloud cover

hcc

%

3075

yes

yes

above 5000m

Medium cloud cover

mcc

%

3074

yes

yes

2500m - 5000m

Low cloud cover

lcc

%

3073

yes

yes

surface - 2500m

Total cloud cover

tcc

%

228164

yes

yes

above ground

Fog (lowest model level cloud)

fog

%

260648

no

yes

lowest model level

Visibility

vis

m

3020

yes

yes

lowest model level

Cloud base

cdcb

m

260107

yes

yes

-

Cloud top

cdct

m

260108

yes

yes

-

Snow

Name

Short Name

Unit

Param ID

Analysis: 0,3,...,21

Forecast: 1,2,3,…

Height

Snow density

rsn

kg/m3

33

yes

yes

surface

Snow depth water equivalent

sd

kg/m2

228141

yes

yes

surface

Fraction of snow cover

fscov

0-1

260289

yes

no

surface

Snow albedo

asn

%

228032

yes

no

surface

Surface roughness lengths

Name

Short Name

Unit

Param ID

Analysis: 0,3,...,21

Forecast: 1,2,3,…

Height

Surface roughness

sr

m

173

yes

no

surface

Surface roughness length for heat

srlh

m

260651

yes

no

surface

Sea states

Name

Short Name

Unit

Param ID

Analysis: 0,3,...,21

Forecast: 1,2,3,…

Height

Sea surface temperature (SST)

sst

K

34

yes

no

surface

Sea ice area fraction

ci

0-1

31

yes

no

surface

Sea ice surface temperature

sist

K

260649

yes

yes

surface

Sea ice thickness

sithick

m

174098

yes

no

surface

Snow on ice total depth

sitd

m

260650

yes

yes

surface

Static fields

Name

Short Name

Unit

Param ID

Analysis: 0,3,...,21

Forecast: 1,2,3,…

Height

Land-sea mask

lsm%

0-1

172

no

no

surface

Sea tile fraction*

NA

0-1

NA

no

no

surface

Inland water tile fraction*

NA

0-1

NA

no

no

surface

Urban tile fraction*

NA

0-1

NA

no

no

surface

Nature tile fraction*

NA

0-1

NA

no

no

surface

Glacier fraction*

NA

0-1

NA

no

no

surface

Subgrid orography average slope*NA0-1NAnonosurface

Subgrid orography standard deviation*

NA

m

NA

no

no

surface

Orography

orog

m

228002

no

no

surface

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Long forecasts are available from the forecasts initiated at 00 and 12 UTC. Long forecasts include forecast lengths of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27 and 30 hours.

Short forecasts of 1, 2 and 3 hours are made for the forecasts initiated at 03, 06, 09, 15, 18 and 21 UTC.

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table2
table2
Table 2: Overview of soil level variables

Soil level variables

Name

Short Name

Unit

Param ID

Analysis: 0,3,...,21

Forecast: 1,2,3,…

Volumetric soil ice

vsi

m³/m³

260644

yes

yes

Volumetric soil moisture

vsw

m³/m³

260199

yes

yes

Model level variables

Model level variables are output at 65 hybrid model levels of the HARMONIE-AROME model. These follow the surface at the lowest levels and are gradually evolved into pure pressure levels at the highest levels. These are the levels at which the model computations are done. The height level and pressure level variables are interpolated from these data.

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Long forecasts are available from the forecasts initiated at 00 and 12 UTC. Long forecasts include forecast lengths of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24 and 30 hours.

Short forecasts of 1, 2 and 3 hours are made for the forecasts initiated at 03, 06, 09, 15, 18 and 21 UTC.

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table4
table4
Table 4: Overview of pressure level variables

Pressure level variables

Name

Short Name

Unit

Param ID

Analysis: 0,3,...,21

Forecast: 1,2,3,…

Relative humidity

r

%

157

yes

yes

Temperature

t

K

130

yes

yes

u-component of wind (defined relative to the rotated model grid)

u

m/s

131

yes

yes

v-component of wind (Component defined relative to the rotated model grid)

v

m/s

132

yes

yes

Geometric vertical velocity

wz

m/s

260238

yes

yes

Cloud cover

ccl

%

260257

yes

yes

Specific cloud liquid water content

clwc

kg/kg

246

yes

yes

Specific cloud ice water content

ciwc

kg/kg

247

yes

yes

Specific cloud rain water content

crwc

kg/kg

75

yes

yes

Specific cloud snow water content

cswc

kg/kg

76

yes

yes

Graupel (snow pellets)

grle

kg/kg

260028

yes

yes

Pseudo-adiabatic potential temperature

papt

K

3014

yes

yes

Geopotential

z

m²/s²

129

yes

yes

Potential vorticity

pv

K·m²/ (kg·s)

60

yes

yes

Height level variables

Height level variables are interpolated to 11 specific height levels: 15, 30, 50, 75, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 400 and 500 metres above the surface.

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table5
Table 5: Overview of height level variables

Height level variables

Name

Short Name

Unit

Param ID

Analysis: 0,3,...,21

Forecast: 1,2,3,…

Relative humidity

r

%

157

yes

yes

Temperature

t

K

130

yes

yes

Wind speed

ws

m/s

10

yes

yes

Wind direction

wdir

deg

3031

yes

yes

Specific cloud liquid water content

clwc

kg/kg

246

yes

yes

Specific cloud ice water content

ciwc

kg/kg

247

yes

yes

PressurepresPa54yesyes

Details about the data fields

All data fields are model grid box (2.5 km X 2.5 km = 6.25 km2) averages. When output data are compared to local data near the coast or close to a glacier boundary, it should be remembered that the model variables represent such averages. For instance, to compute the surface forcing at specific glacial sites near a glacier boundary, it will be most representative to choose output from a model grid box that is fully on the glacier, rather than the closest model grid box if this only partially covers the glacier. Also, very local rain shower intensity can be higher than the modelled average grid box intensity.

Output variables can be either instantaneous, accumulated, or maxima/minima from a given period. This is specified for each of the variables listed below.

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table6
Table 6: Variables and levels for which field uncertainty estimates are provided. (Due to technical issues, there is a difference in parameter availability between the East and West domain.)

Name

Levels

Pressure

Surface as well as mean sea level

U-component of wind

Pressure levels (50 - 1000 hPa)

V-component of windy

Pressure levels (50 - 1000 hPa)

Temperature

Pressure levels (50 - 1000 hPa)

Geopotential (East domain only)

Pressure levels (50 - 1000 hPa)

Relative humidity (East domain)/Specific humidity (West domain)

Pressure levels (50 - 1000 hPa)

In section 6.5 we present uncertainties measured as statistics of actual deviations from observations (also known as verification statistics). Note that observations are a reference not identical to the actual truth, as they also will have uncertainties as well as representativeness issues. This verification statistics is provided for a set of near-surface quantities which are covered by the meteorological observation network, including 2m temperature, 10m winds and precipitation.

Field based atmospheric uncertainty estimation

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table8
Table 8: Climatological analysis error standard deviation for u wind component for the CARRA-East domain. 

Name

Short name

Unit

Level

Summer statistics

Winter statistics


Upper Bound STDV

Refined STDV

Upper Bound STDV

Refined STDV

u-component of wind

u

m/s

50hPa

0.545

0.223

0.556

0.228

u-component of wind

u

m/s

100hPa

0.372

0.153

0.397

0.169

u-component of wind

u

m/s

150hPa

0.584

0.239

0.619

0.254

u-component of wind

u

m/s

200hPa

0.865

0.355

0.923

0.378

u-component of wind

u

m/s

250hPa

1.077

0.442

1.089

0.447

u-component of wind

u

m/s

300hPa

1.290

0.530

1.240

0.508

u-component of wind

u

m/s

400hPa

1.282

0.526

1.292

0.530

u-component of wind

u

m/s

500hPa

1.284

0.526

1.364

0.559

u-component of wind

u

m/s

600hPa

1.322

0.648

1.392

0.738

u-component of wind

u

m/s

700hPa

1.346

0.740

1.404

0.927

u-component of wind

u

m/s

800hPa

1.344

0.833

1.324

1.006

u-component of wind

u

m/s

850hPa

1.331

0.865

1.274

1.045

u-component of wind

u

m/s

900hPa

1.311

0.905

1.275

1.122

u-component of wind

u

m/s

925hPa

1.315

0.921

1.295

1.178

u-component of wind

u

m/s

950hPa

1.330

0.958

1.305

1.227

u-component of wind

u

m/s

1000hPa

1.302

0.937

1.172

1.102

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table9
table9
Table 9: Climatological analysis error standard deviation for v wind component, summer period for the CARRA-East domain. 

Name

Short name

Unit

Level

Summer statistics

Winter statistics


Upper Bound STDV

Refined STDV

Upper Bound STDV

Refined STDV

v-component of wind

v

m/s

50hPa

0.541

0.222

0.541

0.222

v-component of wind

v

m/s

100hPa

0.376

0.154

0.384

0.157

v-component of wind

v

m/s

150hPa

0.597

0.245

0.599

0.246

v-component of wind

v

m/s

200hPa

0.884

0.362

0.898

0.368

v-component of wind

v

m/s

250hPa

1.105

0.453

1.061

0.435

v-component of wind

v

m/s

300hPa

1.337

0.548

1.209

0.496

v-component of wind

v

m/s

400hPa

1.313

0.538

1.270

0.521

v-component of wind

v

m/s

500hPa

1.328

0.544

1.351

0.554

v-component of wind

v

m/s

600hPa

1.363

0.668

1.391

0.737

v-component of wind

v

m/s

700hPa

1.383

0.761

1.402

0.925

v-component of wind

v

m/s

800hPa

1.382

0.857

1.332

1.012

v-component of wind

v

m/s

850hPa

1.363

0.886

1.282

1.051

v-component of wind

v

m/s

900hPa

1.342

0.926

1.277

1.124

v-component of wind

v

m/s

925hPa

1.344

0.941

1.293

1.177

v-component of wind

v

m/s

950hPa

1.361

0.980

1.299

1.221

v-component of wind

v

m/s

1000hPa

1.318

0.949

1.167

1.097

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table10
table10
Table 10: Climatological analysis error standard deviation temperature for the CARRA-East domain.

Name

Short name

Unit

Level

Summer statistics

Winter statistics


Upper Bound STDV

Refined STDV

Upper Bound STDV

Refined STDV

temperature

t

K

50hPa

0.141

0.058

0.142

0.058

temperature

t

K

100hPa

0.122

0.050

0.122

0.050

temperature

t

K

150hPa

0.230

0.094

0.224

0.092

temperature

t

K

200hPa

0.466

0.191

0.441

0.181

temperature

t

K

250hPa

0.490

0.201

0.438

0.180

temperature

t

K

300hPa

0.392

0.161

0.406

0.167

temperature

t

K

400hPa

0.314

0.129

0.341

0.140

temperature

t

K

500hPa

0.346

0.142

0.359

0.147

temperature

t

K

600hPa

0.399

0.196

0.399

0.211

temperature

t

K

700hPa

0.465

0.256

0.465

0.307

temperature

t

K

800hPa

0.537

0.333

0.485

0.369

temperature

t

K

850hPa

0.586

0.381

0.508

0.417

temperature

t

K

900hPa

0.614

0.424

0.520

0.458

temperature

t

K

925hPa

0.604

0.423

0.531

0.483

temperature

t

K

950hPa

0.612

0.441

0.546

0.513

temperature

t

K

1000hPa

0.582

0.419

0.576

0.504

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table11
Table 11: Climatological analysis error standard deviation geopotential for the CARRA-East domain. 

Name

Short name

Unit

Level

Summer statistics

Winter statistics


Upper Bound STDV

Refined STDV

Upper Bound STDV

Refined STDV

geopotential

z

m²/s²

50hPa

42.17

17.29

41.54

17.03

geopotential

z

m²/s²

100hPa

41.29

16.93

40.39

16.56

geopotential

z

m²/s²

150hPa

39.06

16.01

38.22

15.67

geopotential

z

m²/s²

200hPa

30.34

12.44

30.41

12.47

geopotential

z

m²/s²

250hPa

29.65

12.16

29.87

12.25

geopotential

z

m²/s²

300hPa

31.28

12.82

30.92

12.68

geopotential

z

m²/s²

400hPa

29.68

12.17

29.56

12.12

geopotential

z

m²/s²

500hPa

27.60

11.32

27.56

11.30

geopotential

z

m²/s²

600hPa

26.57

13.02

26.47

14.03

geopotential

z

m²/s²

700hPa

25.99

14.29

25.93

17.11

geopotential

z

m²/s²

800hPa

25.40

15.75

25.48

19.36

geopotential

z

m²/s²

850hPa

25.13

16.33

25.68

21.06

geopotential

z

m²/s²

900hPa

25.40

17.53

26.80

23.58

geopotential

z

m²/s²

925hPa

25.89

18.12

27.77

25.27

geopotential

z

m²/s²

950hPa

26.74

19.25

29.02

27.28

geopotential

z

m²/s²

1000hPa

29.47

21.22

32.43

30.48

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table12
table12
Table 12: Climatological analysis error standard deviation relative humidity for the CARRA-East domain.

Name

Short name

Unit

Level

Summer statistics

Winter statistics


Upper Bound STDV

Refined STDV

Upper Bound STDV

Refined STDV

relative humidity

r

%

50hPa

0.024

0.010

1.256

0.515

relative humidity

r

%

100hPa

0.010

0.004

0.194

0.080

relative humidity

r

%

150hPa

0.040

0.016

0.425

0.174

relative humidity

r

%

200hPa

0.534

0.219

1.913

0.784

relative humidity

r

%

250hPa

3.223

1.321

4.900

2.009

relative humidity

r

%

300hPa

6.153

2.523

8.861

3.633

relative humidity

r

%

400hPa

8.236

3.377

12.634

5.180

relative humidity

r

%

500hPa

7.181

2.944

12.562

5.150

relative humidity

r

%

600hPa

6.819

3.341

11.824

6.267

relative humidity

r

%

700hPa

6.740

3.707

11.522

7.605

relative humidity

r

%

800hPa

6.544

4.057

9.638

7.325

relative humidity

r

%

850hPa

6.118

3.977

8.194

6.719

relative humidity

r

%

900hPa

5.215

3.598

6.820

6.002

relative humidity

r

%

925hPa

4.674

3.272

6.303

5.736

relative humidity

r

%

950hPa

4.285

3.085

5.767

5.421

relative humidity

r

%

1000hPa

3.477

2.503

4.277

4.020

Uncertainties for the CARRA-West model domain

In this section we provide the actual estimates of the uncertainty in the form of the Upper Bound Standard Deviation and the Refined Standard Deviation for analysis errors over CARRA-West domain. For this domain, we provide all-year-around averaged statistics. The uncertainty estimation is given both in form of tables for surface pressure and mean sea level pressure (Table 13), u-wind component (Table 14), v-wind component (Table 15), temperature (Table 16) and specific humidity (Table 17), and in form of figures for the u- and v- wind components (Figure 7, left and right panel, respectively), temperature (Figure 8 , left panel) and specific humidity (Figure 8, right panel). All tables contain the name of the meteorological variable, short abbreviation, units and vertical levels. Uncertainty of the surface pressure field is provided at 0 m above ground and at 0 m above mean sea level. The uncertainty of the u- and v- components of wind, temperature and specific humidity is provided at standard pressure levels : 50 hPa, 100 hPa, 150 hPa, 200 hPa, 250 hPa, 300 hPa, 400 hPa, 500 hPa, 600hPa, 700 hPa, 800 hPa, 850 hPa, 900 hPa, 925 hPa, 950 hPa and 1000 hPa. The figures show uncertainty estimates as a function of standard pressure levels. Note that the uncertainty estimates for the CARRA-West domain are not given for exactly the same variables as for the CARRA-East domain due to technical processing challenges. The Upper Bound Standard Deviation of the analysis errors is shown as a solid curve and the Refined standard deviation (STDV) of the analysis error is shown as a dashed curve.

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table13
table13
Table 13: Climatological analysis error standard deviation for surface pressure and mean sea level pressure for the CARRA-West domain.

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table14
Table 14: Climatological analysis error standard deviation for u-component of wind for the CARRA-West domain. 

Name

Short name

Unit

Level

Upper Bound STDV

Refined STDV

u-component of wind

u

m/s

50hPa

0.540

0.146

u-component of wind

u

m/s

100hPa

0.370

0.100

u-component of wind

u

m/s

150hPa

0.447

0.121

u-component of wind

u

m/s

200hPa

0.611

0.165

u-component of wind

u

m/s

250hPa

0.732

0.198

u-component of wind

u

m/s

300hPa

0.871

0.235

u-component of wind

u

m/s

400hPa

0.869

0.235

u-component of wind

u

m/s

500hPa

0.862

0.233

u-component of wind

u

m/s

600hPa

0.887

0.240

u-component of wind

u

m/s

700hPa

0.893

0.241

u-component of wind

u

m/s

800hPa

0.856

0.231

u-component of wind

u

m/s

850hPa

0.831

0.224

u-component of wind

u

m/s

900hPa

0.810

0.219

u-component of wind

u

m/s

925hPa

0.803

0.217

u-component of wind

u

m/s

950hPa

0.799

0.216

u-component of wind

u

m/s

1000hPa

0.773

0.209

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table15
Table 15: Climatological analysis error standard deviation for v-component of wind for the CARRA-West domain. 

Name

Short name

Unit

Level

Upper Bound STDV

Refined STDV

v-component of wind

v

m/s

50hPa

0.535

0.144

v-component of wind

v

m/s

100hPa

0.360

0.097

v-component of wind

v

m/s

150hPa

0.449

0.135

v-component of wind

v

m/s

200hPa

0.603

0.162

v-component of wind

v

m/s

250hPa

0.714

0.193

v-component of wind

v

m/s

300hPa

0.851

0.230

v-component of wind

v

m/s

400hPa

0.853

0.230

v-component of wind

v

m/s

500hPa

0.852

0.230

v-component of wind

v

m/s

600hPa

0.877

0.237

v-component of wind

v

m/s

700hPa

0.884

0.239

v-component of wind

v

m/s

800hPa

0.852

0.230

v-component of wind

v

m/s

850hPa

0.826

0.223

v-component of wind

v

m/s

900hPa

0.801

0.216

v-component of wind

v

m/s

925hPa

0.794

0.214

v-component of wind

v

m/s

950hPa

0.792

0.214

v-component of wind

v

m/s

1000hPa

0.763

0.206

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Figure 8: Climatological analysis error standard deviation for temperature (left plot) and specific humidity (right plot) as a function of standard pressure levels for the CARRA-West domain.

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Table 16: Climatological analysis error standard deviation for temperature for the CARRA-West domain.

Name

Short name

Unit

Level

Upper Bound STDV

Refined STDV

temperature

t

K

50hPa

0.130

0.035

temperature

t

K

100hPa

0.112

0.030

temperature

t

K

150hPa

0.169

0.045

temperature

t

K

200hPa

0.276

0.075

temperature

t

K

250hPa

0.285

0.077

temperature

t

K

300hPa

0.263

0.071

temperature

t

K

400hPa

0.227

0.061

temperature

t

K

500hPa

0.235

0.063

temperature

t

K

600hPa

0.259

0.070

temperature

t

K

700hPa

0.350

0.095

temperature

t

K

800hPa

0.473

0.128

temperature

t

K

850hPa

0.500

0.135

temperature

t

K

900hPa

0.508

0.137

temperature

t

K

925hPa

0.509

0.137

temperature

t

K

950hPa

0.520

0.140

temperature

t

K

1000hPa

0.542

0.146

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Table 17: Climatological analysis error standard deviation for specific humidity for the CARRA-West domain.

Name

Short name

Unit

Level

Upper Bound STDV

Refined STDV

specific humidity

r

g/kg

50hPa

0.

0.

specific humidity

r

g/kg

100hPa

0.

0.

specific humidity

r

g/kg

150hPa

0.

0.

specific humidity

r

g/kg

200hPa

0.001

0.0002

specific humidity

r

g/kg

250hPa

0.002

0.0004

specific humidity

r

g/kg

300hPa

0.006

0.001

specific humidity

r

g/kg

400hPa

0.020

0.005

specific humidity

r

g/kg

500hPa

0.048

0.013

specific humidity

r

g/kg

600hPa

0.082

0.022

specific humidity

r

g/kg

700hPa

0.113

0.031

specific humidity

r

g/kg

800hPa

0.127

0.034

specific humidity

r

g/kg

850hPa

0.126

0.034

specific humidity

r

g/kg

900hPa

0.119

0.032

specific humidity

r

g/kg

925hPa

0.115

0.031

specific humidity

r

g/kg

950hPa

0.112

0.030

specific humidity

r

g/kg

1000hPa

0.099

0.027

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