Note about the "NE" variable. This is the name of a Fortran variable and also used in CIME XML files to refer to cubed sphere grids. It is meaningless jargon to most people. For written documents we recommend referring to grids by their resolution in km. For the quasi-uniform cubed-sphere grid, average grid spacing at the equator is a good measure of the resolutions.
For cubed sphere grids (CAM-SE Grid Overview ), NE is the number Number of spectral elements Elements along each cube face. Thus the total number of elements N = 6 NE^2.
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