| Short name | Long name | Units |
| acceldiv | EP Flux Divergence | m s-2 |
| accelnogw | Tendency Of Eastward Wind Due To Nonorographic Gravity Wave Drag | m s-1 s-1 |
| accelnogwn | Tendency Of Northward Wind Due To Nonorographic Gravity Wave Drag | m s-1 s-1 |
| accelogw | Tendency Of Eastward Wind Due To Orographic Gravity Wave Drag | m s-1 s-1 |
| accelogwn | Tendency Of Northward Wind Due To Orographic Gravity Wave Drag | m s-1 s-1 |
| cl | Cloud Area Fraction | % |
| cli | Mass Fraction of Cloud Ice | 1 |
| clivi | Ice Water Path | kg m-2 |
| clt | Total Cloud Fraction | % |
| cltau | Cloud Optical Thickness | 1 |
| clw | Mass Fraction of Cloud Liquid Water | 1 |
| clwvi | Condensed Water Path | kg m-2 |
| cp | Specific Heat Capacity At Constant Pressure. | J K-1 kg-1 |
| dfgw | Non-orographic GW Diffusion Coefficient | m2 s-1 |
| evspsbl | Evaporation | kg m-2 s-1 |
| fy | Meridional Component EP Flux | kg s-2 |
| fz | Vertical Component EP Flux | kg s-2 |
| hfls | Surface Upward Latent Heat Flux | W m-2 |
| hfns | Net Surface Energy Flux (at Ice-Atmosphere Interface Above Sea-Ice) | W m-2 |
| hfss | Surface Upward Sensible Heat Flux | W m-2 |
| hur | Relative Humidity | % |
| hus | Specific Humidity | 1 |
| huss | Near-Surface Specific Humidity | 1 |
| ma | Mean Molecular Mass | g mole-1 |
| nogweflux | Upward Eastward Momentum Flux In Air Due To Nonorographic Eastward Gravity Waves | Pa |
| nogwfluxe | Upward Eastward Momentum Flux In Air Due To Nonorographic Gravity Waves | Pa |
| nogwfluxn | Upward Northward Momentum Flux In Air Due To Nonorographic Gravity Waves | Pa |
| nogwwflux | Upward Eastward Momentum Flux In Air Due To Nonorographic Westward Gravity Waves | Pa |
| ogwfluxe | Upward Eastward Momentum Flux In Air Due To Orographic Gravity Waves | Pa |
| ogwfluxn | Upward Northward Momentum Flux In Air Due To Orographic Gravity Waves | Pa |
| pr | Precipitation | kg m-2 s-1 |
| prc | Convective Precipitation | kg m-2 s-1 |
| prsn | Solid Precipitation | kg m-2 s-1 |
| prw | Water Vapor Path | kg m-2 |
| ps | Surface Air Pressure | Pa |
| psl | Sea Level Pressure | Pa |
| rd | Dry Air Gas Constant | J K-1 kg-1 |
| rg | Gravity | m s-1 s-1 |
| rho | Density | kg m-3 |
| rlds | Surface Downwelling Longwave Radiation | W m-2 |
| rls | Net Longwave Radiation At The Ground | W m-2 |
| rlus | Surface Upwelling Longwave Radiation | W m-2 |
| rlut | TOA Outgoing Longwave Radiation | W m-2 |
| rnets | Radiation Budget At The Ground | W m-2 |
| ro | Air Number Density | cm-3 |
| rphi | Real Geopotential | m2 s-1 s-1 |
| rsds | Surface Downwelling Shortwave Radiation | W m-2 |
| rsdt | TOA Incident Shortwave Radiation | W m-2 |
| rss | Solar Heat Absorbed by Ground | W m-2 |
| rst | Heat Absorbed By Earth-Atmosphere System | W m-2 |
| rsus | Surface Upwelling Shortwave Radiation | W m-2 |
| rsut | TOA Outgoing Shortwave Radiation | W m-2 |
| rtmt | Net Downward Flux at Top of Model | W m-2 |
| rz | Real Height | m |
| slmask | Day Night Mask | 1 |
| ta | Air Temperature | K |
| tas | Near-Surface Air Temperature | K |
| tauu | Surface Downward Eastward Wind Stress | Pa |
| tauv | Surface Downward Northward Wind Stress | Pa |
| tnmmugwd | Total GWD tendency | m s-1 s-1 |
| tnmmuid | Ion Drag Zonal Wind Tendency | m s-1 s-1 |
| tnmmunogwd | Non-orographic GWD Tendency | m s-1 s-1 |
| tnmmuogwd | Orographic GWD Tendency | m s-1 s-1 |
| tnmmuphy | Total Physics Zonal Wind Tendency | m s-1 s-1 |
| tnmmuvd | Physics Vertical Diffusion Drag Acting On The Zonal Wind | m s-1 s-1 |
| tnmmvgwd | Total GWD Tendency | m s-1 s-1 |
| tnmmvnogwd | Non-orographic GWD Tendency | m s-1 s-1 |
| tnmmvogwd | Orographic GWD Tendency | m s-1 s-1 |
| tnmmvphy | Total Physics Meridional Wind Tendency | m s-1 s-1 |
| tntch | Chemical Heating | K s-1 |
| tntcnv | Temperature Tendency Due To Latent Heating From Deep Convection | K s-1 |
| tntlw | Temperature Tendency Due To Longwave Heating | K s-1 |
| tntnet | Temperature Tendency Due To Net Radiative Heating | K s-1 |
| tntphy | Total Temperature Tendency | K s-1 |
| tntsw | Temperature Tendency Due To Shortwave Heating | K s-1 |
| tntvdiff | Temperature Tendency Due To Vertical Diffusion | K s-1 |
| tpot | Potential Temperature | K |
| ts | Surface Temperature | K |
| ua | Eastward Wind | m s-1 |
| uas | Eastward Near-Surface Wind | m s-1 |
| va | Northward Wind | m s-1 |
| vas | Northward Near-Surface Wind | m s-1 |
| vorpot | Ertel\'s Potential Vorticity | K m2 kg-1 s-1 |
| vorrel | Atmospheric Relative Vorticity | s-1 |
| vptp | Meridional Heat Flux | K m s-1 |
| vstar | Northward Transformed Eulerian Mean Air Velocity | m s-1 |
| wa | Eulerian Vertical Velocity | m s-1 |
| wap | omega (=dp/dt) | Pa s-1 |
| wav | Eulerian Vertical Velocity | m s-1 |
| wstar | Upward Transformed Eulerian Mean Air Velocity | m s-1 |
| zg | Geopotential Height | m |