snow and ice variables

[William.Hatheway]

If SNOWNC is accumulated grid scale snowfall (snow + ice) what wrf output variable would i subtract to just get ice? I believe this would be equivalent to freezing rain at the surface?

 

[William.Hatheway]

@Ming Chen @kwerner

Sorry to bump this but I think it got lost in the feeds

 

[kwerner]

It doesn't look like there is a similar variable for just snow. The variable SNOWNC is used in numerous different physics options, and may be calculated a bit differently, depending on what options you're using. I would recommend searching for the variable in the code and looking into the files that you would be using (grep -i snownc */*.F) and look at how it's calculated. You may be able to determine how to break it down from that code.