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Convert a Common Oceanic/Atmospheric Variable Name to/from a Full Name

This web page lets you convert a common oceanic/atmospheric variable name to/from a full name. For example, the variable name "sst" converts to the full name "Sea Surface Temperature".
 

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Convert from Air Density at Sigma Level 0.9967 Air Temperature Best (4-layer) Lifted Index Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Material Clear Sky Downward Longwave Flux Clear Sky Downward Solar Flux Clear Sky Upward Longwave Flux Cloud Forcing Net Longwave Flux Cloud Forcing Net Solar Flux Cloudiness Composite Average of High Level Clouds Composite Average of Low Level Clouds Composite Average of Mid Level Clouds Convective Precipitation Rate Course Over Ground Curl of the Surface Wind Stress Divergence Downward Longwave Radiation Flux Downward Solar Radiation Flux Eastward Latent Heat Transport Eastward Sensible Heat Transport Extent of Snow Cover Fractional Cloudiness Geopotential Height Ground Heat Flux Heat flux Highly Reflective Clouds Ice Concentration Land Mask Land/Sea Mask Latent Heat Flux Latent Heat Net Flux Latent Heat Parameter Liquid Water Equivalent Maximum Temperature Mean Sea Level Pressure Mean Square Geopotential Height Mean Square Omega (dp/dt) Mean Square Specific Humidity Mean Square u-wind Mean Square v-wind Mean Square Virtual Temperature Mean Square Vorticity Meridional Component of Wind Stress Meridional Gravity Wave Stress Meridional Latent Heat Parameter Minimum Temperature Mixed Layer Depth via Potential Density Mixed Layer Depth via Potential Temperature Momentum Flux, u-component Momentum Flux, v-component MSU Air Temperature Channel 2/3 MSU Air Temperature Channel 3/4 Near IR Beam Downward Solar Flux Near IR Diffuse Downward Solar Flux Net Diabatic Heating Net Longwave Radiation at the Surface Net Shortwave Radiation Flux Net Surface Heat Flux Northward Latent Heat Transport Northward Sensible Heat Transport Number of Observations Ocean Temperature Omega (dp/dt) Outgoing Longwave Radiation Palmer Drought Severity Index Particulate Inorganic Carbon Particulate Organic Carbon Photosynthetically Available Radiation Potential Evaporation Rate Potential Temperature Potential Temperature at Sigma Level 0.9967 Potential Temperature at Skin Surface Potential Vorticity Precipitable Water Content Precipitation Precipitation Precipitation Minus Evaporation at the Surface Precipitation Rate Pressure Rate Of Turn Relative Humidity Relative humidity Relative Vorticity Salinity Saturation Specific Humidity Relative to Surface Temperature Scalar Wind Speed Cubed Sea Level Pressure Sea Surface Temperature Sea-Air Temperature Difference Sensible + Latent Heat Flux Sensible Heat Flux Sensible Heat Flux at the Surface Sensible Heat Net Flux Sensible Heat Parameter Short Wave Heat flux Shortwave Heat Flux at the Surface Skin Temperature Specific Humidity Specific Humidity at Sigma Level 0.9967 Speed Over Ground Static Stability Surface Friction Velocity Cubed Surface Lifted Index Surface Potential Temperature Surface Pressure Surface Pressure Variation Surface Roughness Surface Wind Speed Surface Wind Stress Temperature Temperature Temperature Adjustment Due to Convection Temperature Adjustment Due to Radiation Temperature Adjustment Due to Vertical Diffusion Temperature Correction Topology Total Cloud Cover Transient Meridional Flux of Meridional Momentum Transient Meridional Flux of Zonal Momentum Transient Meridional Heat Flux Transient Meridional Heat Flux Transient Meridional Moisture Flux Transient Vertical Heat Flux Transient Zonal Flux of Zonal Momentum Transient Zonal Heat Flux Tropopause Pressure Tropopause Temperature U Component of Ocean Current u-wind u-wind u-wind PseudoStress u-wind Stress Upward Longwave Radiation Flux Upward Solar Radiation Flux V Component of Ocean Current v-wind v-wind v-wind Stress v-wind Stress Velocity Potential Vertical Velocity Vertically Integrated Net Diabaitic Heating Virtual Temperature Visible Beam Downward Solar Flux Visible Diffuse Downward Solar Flux Volumetric Soil Moisture Vorticity Water Equivalent of Accumulated Snow Depth Water Runoff Water Runoff Water Temperature Wind Speed X-prod Air & Omega (dp/dt) X-prod Air & u-wind X-prod Air & v-wind X-prod Omega (dp/dt) & Geo Height X-prod Omega (dp/dt) & Specific Humidity X-prod Omega (dp/dt) & Virt Temp X-prod Omega (dp/dt) & Vorticity X-prod u-wind & Geo Height X-prod u-wind & Omega (dp/dt) X-prod u-wind & Spec Humidity X-prod u-wind & v-wind X-prod u-wind & Virt Temp X-prod u-wind & Vorticity X-prod v-wind & Geo Height X-prod v-wind & Omega (dp/dt) X-prod v-wind & Specific Humidity X-prod v-wind & Virt Temp X-prod v-wind & Vorticity Zonal Component of Wind Stress Zonal Gravity Wave Stress Zonal Latent Heat to a variable name.   
 

Reset the form to the default values.

Or, bypass this web page and do conversions from within a computer program, script, or web page.

Or, view/download the entire oceanic/atmospheric variable names list in these file types:
.csv, .htmlTable, .itx, .json, .jsonlCSV1, .jsonlCSV, .jsonlKVP, .mat, .nc, .nccsv, .tsv, or .xhtml.

Notes

• DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY - No person or organization associated with this website makes any warranty, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness, of any information at this website.
   
• Exact Match - This service requires case-sensitive, exact matches. If there is no exact match, you will get an error error message. All of the variable names are all lowercase.
   
• Not Perfect - This service is far from perfect. Most variable names could be expanded to a large number of different full names. This service includes some commonly used variable names that fairly reliably (> 60% confidence?) expand to a particular name (ignoring minor variations), but that doesn't mean the service will be correct for your use of the variable name. The service only includes the most common full name related to a given variable name (e.g., SST expands here to Sea Surface Temperature, not Surface Skin Temperature).
   
• Suggestions? This service's list of variable names is not complete. If you want to add a commonly used variable name or make a correction, please email it to erd dot data at noaa dot gov .
   

 

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Want To Do Oceanic/Atmospheric Variable Name Conversions from within a Computer Program, Script, or Web Page?

If you change the extension of this web page's URL from .html to .txt, ERDDAP will respond with just the text result.

• An example which converts a variable name to a full name is
  https://erddap.aoml.noaa.gov/gdp/erddap/convert/oceanicAtmosphericVariableNames.txt?variableName=sst
   
• An example which converts a full name into a variable name is
  https://erddap.aoml.noaa.gov/gdp/erddap/convert/oceanicAtmosphericVariableNames.txt?fullName=Sea%20Surface%20Temperature

Percent Encoding - The parameter values in the URL (the parts after '=' signs) must be properly percent encoded: all characters other than A-Za-z0-9_-!.~'()* must be encoded as %HH, where HH is the 2 digit hexadecimal value of the character, for example, a space becomes %20. Characters above #127 must be converted to UTF-8 bytes, then each UTF-8 byte must be percent encoded (ask a programmer for help). There are websites that percent encode and decode for you.

 

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