It will be helpful to distinguish the following variables, and the abbreviations which are used to describe them, as follows:
| AV | = auxiliary variable |
| DV | = dependent variable |
| FFV | = full-field variable |
| MNV | = monitor variable |
| PWV | = patchwise variable |
| SAV | = special auxiliary variable |
| SWV | = slab-wise variable |
| WSV | = whole-field-solver variable |
| WV | = x-wise variable |
| YWV | = y-wise variable |
| ZWV | = z-wise variable |
Otherwise (or thereafter) the following passage should be read as an introduction to the next-relevant PHENC entry, namely F-ARRAY of Earth.
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