Met Office grids and STASH codes

N216 Full global operational resolution
N108 Global operational resolution for data assimilation
N48 Climate resolution





Arakawa 'C' (horizontal) and Charney-Phillips (vertical) grid






Variable/parameterHoriz. staggering codeVert. staggeringLevel rangesSTASH
u 2 p 1-38 2
v 3 p 1-38 3
w 1 theta 0-38 150
rho 1 p 1-38 152
p 1 p 1-39 ?
theta 1 theta 1-38 4
Pi 1 p 1-39 ?
q 1 theta 1-38 10
psi 4 p ? 500
chi 1 p ? 501
Ap 1 p ? 502
mu 1 theta ? 503
alpha ? ? ? 504
exner 1 p 1-39 255