The following 38 parameters from NCEP Parameter Code Table 2 are included in this dataset:

Parameter Code	Short Name	Description	Units
1	PRES	Pressure	Pa
7	HGT	Geopotential height	gpm
11	TMP	Temperature	K
15	TMAX	Maximum temperature	K
16	TMIN	Minimum temperature	K
33	UGRD	u-component of wind	m s^-1
34	VGRD	v-component of wind	m s^-1
39	VVEL	Vertical velocity (pressure)	Pa s^-1
41	ABSV	Absolute vorticity	s^-1
51	SPFH	Specific humidity	kg kg^-1
52	RH	Relative humidity	%
54	PWAT	Precipitable water	kg m^-2
59	PRATE	Precipitation rate	kg m^-2 s^-1
64	SRWEQ	Snowfall rate water equivalent	kg m^-2 s^-1
65	WEASD	Water equivalent of accumulated snow depth	kg m^-2
71	TCDC	Total cloud cover	%
81	LAND	Land cover	fraction
90	RUNOF	Water runoff	kg m^-2
91	ICEC	Ice cover	fraction
121	LHTFL	Latent heat flux	W m^-2
122	SHTFL	Sensible heat flux	W m^-2
124	UFLX	Momentum flux, u-component	N m^-2
125	VFLX	Momentum flux, v-component	N m^-2
144	SOILW	Volumetric soil moisture content	fraction
145	PEVPR	Potential evaporation rate	W m^-2
146	CWORK	Cloud workfunction	J kg^-1
147	U-GWD	Zonal flux of gravity wave stress	N m^-2
148	V-GWD	Meridional flux of gravity wave stress	N m^-2
155	GFLUX	Ground heat flux	W m^-2
204	DSWRF	Downward shortwave radiation flux	W m^-2
205	DLWRF	Downward longwave radiation flux	W m^-2
211	USWRF	Upward shortwave radiation flux	W m^-2
212	ULWRF	Upward longwave radiation flux	W m^-2
214	CPRAT	Convective precipitation rate	kg m^-2 s^-1
221	HPBL	Planetary boundary layer height	m
229	SNOHF	Snow phase-change heat flux	W m^-2
230	5WAVA	5-wave geopotential height anomaly
234	BGRUN	Baseflow-groundwater runoff	kg m^-2

The following 38 parameters from NCEP Parameter Code Table 132 are included in this dataset:

Parameter Code	Short Name	Description	Units
1	PRES	Pressure	Pa
7	HGT	Geopotential height	gpm
11	TMP	Temperature	K
15	TMAX	Maximum temperature	K
16	TMIN	Minimum temperature	K
33	UGRD	u-component of wind	m s^-1
34	VGRD	v-component of wind	m s^-1
39	VVEL	Vertical velocity (pressure)	Pa s^-1
41	ABSV	Absolute vorticity	s^-1
51	SPFH	Specific humidity	kg kg^-1
52	RH	Relative humidity	%
54	PWAT	Precipitable water	kg m^-2
59	PRATE	Precipitation rate	kg m^-2 s^-1
64	SRWEQ	Snowfall rate water equivalent	kg m^-2 s^-1
65	WEASD	Water equivalent of accumulated snow depth	kg m^-2
71	TCDC	Total cloud cover	%
81	LAND	Land cover	fraction
90	RUNOF	Runoff	kg m^-2
91	ICEC	Ice cover	fraction
121	LHTFL	Latent heat flux	W m^-2
122	SHTFL	Sensible heat flux	W m^-2
124	UFLX	Momentum flux, u-component	N m^-2
125	VFLX	Momentum flux, v-component	N m^-2
144	SOILW	Volumetric soil moisture content	fraction
145	PEVPR	Potential evaporation rate	W m^-2
146	CWORK	Cloud workfunction	J kg^-1
147	U-GWD	Zonal flux of gravity wave stress	N m^-2
148	V-GWD	Meridional flux of gravity wave stress	N m^-2
155	GFLUX	Ground heat flux	W m^-2
204	DSWRF	Downward shortwave radiation flux	W m^-2
205	DLWRF	Downward longwave radiation flux	W m^-2
211	USWRF	Upward shortwave radiation flux	W m^-2
212	ULWRF	Upward longwave radiation flux	W m^-2
214	CPRAT	Convective precipitation rate	kg m^-2 s^-1
221	SDTRH	Standard deviation of time tendency of relative humidity	%
229	SNOHF	Snow phase-change heat flux	W m^-2
230	SNOEV	Snow sublimation heat flux	W m^-2
234	BGRUN	Baseflow-groundwater runoff	kg m^-2