For a description of these variables, refer to RID diagnostics explained. Here they are here listed under the RID subcomponents they belong to.
Core variables
Fluxes
- Square of meridional wind anomalies
- Square of zonal wind anomalies
- Square of air temperature anomalies
- Square of geopotential height anomalies
- Vertical zonal momentum flux
Mom
- Acceleration by meridional eddy momentum flux convergence
- Acceleration by vertical eddy momentum flux convergence
- Advection of zonal momentum by pressure velocity
- Advection of zonal momentum by meridional wind
- Coriolis torque
Tem-qg
- Meridional component of residual circulation
- Vertical component of residual circulation
- Momentum advection by vertical residual circulation
- Momentum advection by meridional residual circulation
- Coriolis torque by meridional residual circulation
Tem-pr
- Northward component of primitive Eliassen-Palm flux divergence
- Upward component of primitive Eliassen-Palm flux divergence
- Northward component of primitive Eliassen-Palm flux
- Upward component of primitive Eliassen-Palm flux
Tem-thermo
- Flux term (see Middle Atmosphere Dynamics by Andrews, Holton, Leovy [1987]))
- Advection of potential temperature by vertical component of residual circulation
- Advection of potential temperature by meridional component of residual circulation