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how to calculate total diabatic heating rate

Dear there,

I want to show the sensible heating rate, the latent heating rate, the radiative heating rate, and the total diabatic heating rate in CESM output. But I did not find exactly variables in CESM history output.

However, I found a formulation to calculate total diabatic heating rate in CESM diagnostic package:
TDH (total diabatic heating rate) = DTCOND (T tendency - moist process) + QRS (solar heating rate) + QRL (longwave heating rate) + DTV ( T vertical diffusion).

Now my question is that:
Could I understand DTCOND as the latent heating rate, QRL + QRS as the radiative heating, and DTV as the sensible heating rate?

Thanks in Advance!

Guangshan Chen
 
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