<p><b>ringler@lanl.gov</b> 2013-03-19 16:45:53 -0600 (Tue, 19 Mar 2013)</p><p>documented (most) variables from uTransport through gradVor_n and tend<br>
</p><hr noshade><pre><font color="gray">Modified: branches/xml_registry/src/core_ocean/Registry.xml
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--- branches/xml_registry/src/core_ocean/Registry.xml        2013-03-19 21:43:06 UTC (rev 2628)
+++ branches/xml_registry/src/core_ocean/Registry.xml        2013-03-19 22:45:53 UTC (rev 2629)
@@ -609,8 +609,8 @@
                <var name="v" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nEdges Time" units=""
                 description=""
                />
-                <var name="uTransport" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nEdges Time" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="uTransport" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nEdges Time" units="m s^{-1}"
+                 description="horizontal velocity used to transport mass and tracers"
                />
                <var name="uBolusGM" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nEdges Time" units=""
                 description=""
@@ -639,101 +639,101 @@
                <var name="h_kappa_q" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nEdges Time" units=""
                 description=""
                />
-                <var name="divergence" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" streams="o" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="divergence" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" streams="o" units="s^{-1}"
+                 description="divergence of horizonal velocity"
                />
-                <var name="vorticity" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nVertices Time" streams="o" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="vorticity" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nVertices Time" streams="o" units="s^{-1}"
+                 description="curl of horizontal velocity"
                />
-                <var name="Vor_edge" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nEdges Time" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="Vor_edge" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nEdges Time" units="s^{-1}"
+                 description="vorticity averaged from vertices to edges"
                />
-                <var name="h_edge" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nEdges Time" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="h_edge" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nEdges Time" units="m"
+                 description="layer thickness averaged from cell center to edges"
                />
-                <var name="h_vertex" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nVertices Time" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="h_vertex" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nVertices Time" units="m"
+                 description="layer thickness averaged from cell center to vertices"
                />
-                <var name="ke" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" streams="o" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="ke" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" streams="o" units="m^2 s^{-2}"
+                 description="kinetic energy of horizonal velocity"
                />
-                <var name="kev" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nVertices Time" streams="o" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="kev" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nVertices Time" streams="o" units="m^2 s^{-2}"
+                 description="kinetic energy of horizonal velocity defined at vertices"
                />
-                <var name="kevc" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" streams="o" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="kevc" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" streams="o" units="m^2 s^{-2}"
+                 description="kinetic energy of horizonal velocity defined at vertices"
                />
-                <var name="ke_edge" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nEdges Time" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="ke_edge" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nEdges Time" units="m^2 s^{-2}"
+                 description="kinetic energy of horizonal velocity defined at edges"
                />
-                <var name="Vor_vertex" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nVertices Time" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="Vor_vertex" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nVertices Time" units="s^{-1}"
+                 description="curl of horizontal velocity defined at vertices"
                />
-                <var name="Vor_cell" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" streams="o" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="Vor_cell" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" streams="o" units="s^{-1}"
+                 description="curl of horizontal velocity defined at cell centers"
                />
-                <var name="uReconstructX" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="uReconstructX" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" units="m s^{-1}"
+                 description="component of horizontal velocity in the x-direction (cartesian)"
                />
-                <var name="uReconstructY" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="uReconstructY" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" units="m s^{-1}"
+                 description="component of horizontal velocity in the y-direction (cartesian)"
                />
-                <var name="uReconstructZ" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="uReconstructZ" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" units="m s^{-1}"
+                 description="component of horizontal velocity in the z-direction (cartesian)"
                />
-                <var name="uReconstructZonal" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" streams="o" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="uReconstructZonal" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" streams="o" units="m s^{-1}"
+                 description="component of horizontal velocity in the eastward direction"
                />
-                <var name="uReconstructMeridional" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" streams="o" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="uReconstructMeridional" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" streams="o" units="m s^{-1}"
+                 description="component of horizontal velocity in the northward"
                />
-                <var name="uSrcReconstructX" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="uSrcReconstructX" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" units="N m^{-2}"
+                 description="wind stress in the x-direction (cartesian)"
                />
-                <var name="uSrcReconstructY" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="uSrcReconstructY" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" units="N m^{-2}"
+                 description="wind stress in the y-direction (cartesian)"
                />
-                <var name="uSrcReconstructZ" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="uSrcReconstructZ" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" units="N m^{-2}"
+                 description="wind stress in the z-direction (cartesian)"
                />
-                <var name="uSrcReconstructZonal" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" streams="o" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="uSrcReconstructZonal" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" streams="o" units="N m^{-2}"
+                 description="wind stress in the eastward direction"
                />
-                <var name="uSrcReconstructMeridional" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" streams="o" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="uSrcReconstructMeridional" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" streams="o" units="N m^{-2}"
+                 description="wind stress in the northward direction"
                />
                <var name="MontPot" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" units=""
                 description=""
                />
-                <var name="pressure" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="pressure" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" units="N m^{-2}"
+                 description="pressure used in the velocity equation"
                />
                <var name="wTop" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevelsP1 nCells Time" units=""
                 description=""
                />
-                <var name="vertVelocityTop" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevelsP1 nCells Time" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="vertVelocityTop" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevelsP1 nCells Time" units="m s^{-1}"
+                 description="vertical velocity defined at center (horizonally) and top (vertically) of cell"
                />
                <var name="rhoDisplaced" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" units=""
                 description=""
                />
-                <var name="BruntVaisalaFreqTop" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" streams="o" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="BruntVaisalaFreqTop" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" streams="o" units="s^{-2}"
+                 description="Brunt Vaisala frequency defined at the center (horizontally) and top (vertically) of cell"
                />
-                <var name="viscosity" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nEdges Time" streams="o" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="viscosity" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nEdges Time" streams="o" units="m^2 s^{-1}"
+                 description="horizontal viscosity"
                />
-                <var name="vh" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nEdges Time" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="vh" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nEdges Time" units="m^2 s^{-1}"
+                 description="thickness flux in the tangent direction (from vertex1 to vertex2)"
                />
-                <var name="circulation" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nVertices Time" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="circulation" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nVertices Time" units="m^2 s^{-1}"
+                 description="area-integrated vorticity"
                />
-                <var name="gradVor_t" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nEdges Time" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="gradVor_t" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nEdges Time" units="s^{-1} m^{-1}"
+                 description="gradient of vorticity in the tangent direction (from vertex1 to vertex2)"
                />
-                <var name="gradVor_n" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nEdges Time" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="gradVor_n" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nEdges Time" units="s^{-1} m^{-1}"
+                 description="gradient of vorticity in the normal direction (from cell1 to cell2)"
                />
                <var name="areaCellGlobal" type="real" dimensions="Time" streams="o" units=""
                 description=""
@@ -1034,38 +1034,38 @@
        </var_struct>
        <var_struct name="tend" time_levs="1">
                <var_array name="tracers" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time">
-                        <var name="tend_temperature" array_group="dynamics" units="" name_in_code="temperature"
-                         description=""
+                        <var name="tend_temperature" array_group="dynamics" units="K s^{-1}" name_in_code="temperature"
+                         description="time tendency of potential temperature"
                        />
-                        <var name="tend_salinity" array_group="dynamics" units="" name_in_code="salinity"
-                         description=""
+                        <var name="tend_salinity" array_group="dynamics" units="PSU s^{-1}" name_in_code="salinity"
+                         description="time tendency of salinity measured as change in practical salinity units per second"
                        />
-                        <var name="tend_tracer1" array_group="testing" units="" name_in_code="tracer1"
-                         description=""
+                        <var name="tend_tracer1" array_group="testing" units="tracer s^{-1}" name_in_code="tracer1"
+                         description="time tendency of an arbitary tracer"
                        />
                </var_array>
-                <var name="tend_u" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nEdges Time" units="" name_in_code="u"
-                 description=""
+                <var name="tend_u" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nEdges Time" units="m s^{-2}" name_in_code="u"
+                 description="time tendency of normal component of velocity"
                />
-                <var name="tend_h" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" units="" name_in_code="h"
-                 description=""
+                <var name="tend_h" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevels nCells Time" units="m s^{-1}" name_in_code="h"
+                 description="time tendency of layer thickness"
                />
-                <var name="tend_ssh" type="real" dimensions="nCells Time" units="" name_in_code="ssh"
-                 description=""
+                <var name="tend_ssh" type="real" dimensions="nCells Time" units="m s^{-1}" name_in_code="ssh"
+                 description="time tendency of sea-surface height"
                />
        </var_struct>
        <var_struct name="diagnostics" time_levs="1">
-                <var name="RiTopOfCell" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevelsP1 nCells Time" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="RiTopOfCell" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevelsP1 nCells Time" units="nondimensional"
+                 description="gradient Richardson number defined at the center (horizontally) and top (vertically)"
                />
-                <var name="RiTopOfEdge" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevelsP1 nEdges Time" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="RiTopOfEdge" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevelsP1 nEdges Time" units="nondimensional"
+                 description="gradient Richardson number defined at the edge (horizontally) and top (vertically)"
                />
-                <var name="vertViscTopOfEdge" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevelsP1 nEdges Time" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="vertViscTopOfEdge" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevelsP1 nEdges Time" units="m^2 s^{-1}"
+                 description="vertical viscosity defined at the edge (horizontally) and top (vertically)"
                />
-                <var name="vertDiffTopOfCell" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevelsP1 nCells Time" units=""
-                 description=""
+                <var name="vertDiffTopOfCell" type="real" dimensions="nVertLevelsP1 nCells Time" units="m^2 s^{-1}"
+                 description="vertical diffusion defined at the edge (horizontally) and top (vertically)"
                />
        </var_struct>
</registry>
</font>
</pre>