Re: [Fwd: MOC plot]

From: <siswanto_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Fri Jun 04 2010 - 15:09:19 MDT

Thanks Adam and Dennis,

The answers are pretty clear.

Best,
Siswanto

> [1] The 1st question was answered by Adam.
>
> [2] A person familiar with the POP model responds as follows:
> ===
> Yes, you can obtain Pacific+Indian MOC by subtracting the Atlantic
> overturning from the Global overturning streamfunction.
> ===
>
> [3] PLEASE added the .hluresfile located at
>
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/hlures.shtml
>
> to your home directory.
>
> Good luck
>
> On 06/04/2010 11:11 AM, siswanto@climate.unibe.ch wrote:
>>
>> Dear NCL users,
>>
>> I have a problem in plotting MOC from CCSM3 model output as attached fig
>> in file 1. I want to plot x-axis as regular spacing latitude, but
>> somehow,
>> since the MOC variable has lat_aux_grid (which has different box spacing
>> along its latitude, I guess, it produces a weird latitude). So here I
>> post
>> some of my questions :
>> 1. How to bring it back into regular latitude spacing?
>> 2. Since MOC variable in the CCSM3 has only calculated MOC for Atlantic
>> ocean and Global ocean. Am I doing right if I just subtract Global with
>> Atlantic MOC to obtain Pacific + Indian ocean MOC ? Does anybody know
>> any
>> references about or experience to calculate Pacific MOC? I did a kind of
>> Eulerian MOC calculation for Pacific as documented in the NCL homepage
>> by
>> using variable VVEL, but I'm not pretty sure with the result.
>> Any help will be very appreciated. Thanks
>>
>>
>> Siswanto
>> Climate and Environmental Physics siswanto@climate.unibe.ch
>> Physics Institute, University of Bern ph: +41 (0)31 631 48 71
>> Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
>>
>>
>>
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Siswanto
Climate and Environmental Physics siswanto@climate.unibe.ch
Physics Institute, University of Bern ph: +41 (0)31 631 48 71
Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland

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