Themes

Theme name Domain Comment Variables defined in Theme
Basic atmospheric Atmosphere Air pressure (at surface), Air specific humidity (at surface), Air temperature (at surface), Atmospheric temperature, Height of the top of PBL, Height of the tropopause, Specific humidity, Specific humidity (Total Column), Temperature of the tropopause, Turbulence, Wind (horizontal), Wind (vertical), Wind speed over the surface (horizontal), Wind vector over the surface (horizontal)
Clouds and precipitations Atmosphere Accumulated precipitation (over 24 h), Cloud base height, Cloud cover, Cloud drop effective radius, Cloud ice, Cloud ice (total column), Cloud ice effective radius, Cloud liquid water, Cloud liquid water (total column), Cloud optical depth, Cloud top height, Cloud top temperature, Cloud type, Freezing level height in clouds, Icing potential, Lightning detection, Melting layer depth in clouds, Precipitation (liquid or solid), Precipitation intensity at surface (liquid or solid), Precipitation intensity at surface (solid), Precipitation type at the surface, Precipitation type
Aerosols and radiation Atmosphere Aerosol column burden, Aerosol effective radius, Aerosol Extinction Coefficient, Aerosol mass mixing ratio, Aerosol Optical Depth, Aerosol species mole fraction, Aerosol species total column burden, Aerosol type, Downward short-wave irradiance at Earth surface, Downward short-wave irradiance at TOA, Downward long-wave irradiance at Earth surface, Earth surface albedo, Earth surface short-wave bidirectional reflectance, Fraction of Absorbed PAR (FAPAR), Long-wave Earth surface emissivity, Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR), Short-wave cloud reflectance, Upward short-wave irradiance at TOA, Upward spectral radiance at TOA, Upward long-wave irradiance at TOA, Upward long-wave irradiance at Earth surface, Aerosol volcanic ash, Aerosol volcanic ash (Total column), Aerosol dust concentration, Meteorological Optical Range (MOR) (surface), Background Luminance (surface), Aerosol Absorption Optical Depth
Ocean and sea ice Ocean Bathymetry, Coastal sea level (tide), Colour Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM), Dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), Dominant wave direction, Dominant wave period, Ocean chlorophyll concentration , Ocean Diffuse Attenuation Coefficient (DAC), Ocean dynamic topography, Ocean salinity, Ocean subsurface dissolved oxygen concentration, Ocean subsurface tracers, Ocean surface currents (vector), Ocean suspended sediments concentration, Ocean temperature, Ocean velocity, Oil spill cover, pCO2, pH, Sea surface salinity, Sea surface temperature, Sea-ice cover, Sea-ice elevation, Sea-ice surface temperature, Sea-ice thickness, Sea-ice type, Significant wave height, Total alkalinity (AT), Water-leaving spectral radiance, Wave directional energy frequency spectrum, Wind stress, Sea surface heat flux, Sea surface height anomaly, Sea Surface Mass Flux, Sea-ice motion, Sea-ice surface characteristics, Wave 1D energy frequency spectrum
Land surface Terrestrial Biomass, Coastlines, Fire fractional cover, Fire radiative power, Fire temperature, Fraction of vegetated land, Glacier cover, Glacier motion, Glacier topography, Ground water, Ice sheet topography, Lake area, Lake level, Lake Surface Temperature, Land cover, Land surface temperature, Land surface topography, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Permafrost, River discharge, Snow cover, Snow status (wet/dry), Snow water equivalent, Soil moisture (in the roots region), Soil moisture at surface, Soil type, Vegetation type, Wetland extent, CO2 flux, Evapotranspiration, Soil temperature, Wind gust, Snow depth
Solid Earth Terrestrial Crustal motion (horizontal and vertical), Crustal plates positioning, Earth Rotation, Geoid, Gravity field, Gravity gradients
Atmospheric chemistry Atmosphere BrO, C2H2, C2H6, CFC-11, CFC-12, CH2O, CH2O (Total Column), CH4, ClO, ClONO2, CO, CO2, COS, H2O, HCl, HDO, HNO3, N2O, N2O5, NO, NO2, NO2 (Total column), O3, O3 (Total column), OH, PAN, PSC occurrence, SF6, SO2, SO2 (Total column)
Ionospheric disturbances Space Electron Density Profile, foEs, foF2, h'F, hmF2, Ionospheric plasma velocity, Ionospheric Radio Absorption, Ionospheric Scintillation (S4 and Sigma Phi), Ionospheric Total Electron Content (TEC), h'P (Spread F), Electric Field, Aurora
Geomagnetic field Space Vector magnetic field
Space energetic particles Space Cosmic ray neutron flux density, Electron flux density energy spectrum, Heavy ion flux density energy and mass spectrum, Proton flux density energy spectrum
Solar and Interplanetary Space Solar EUV flux, f10.7, Heliospheric image, Interplanetary magnetic field, Solar Ca II-K image, Solar EUV image, Solar H-alpha image, Solar magnetic field, Solar radio emission, Solar white light image, Solar wind density, Solar wind temperature, Solar wind velocity, Solar X-ray image, Wide-angle solar corona image, Solar X-ray flux