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vinth2p_nodes

Interpolates CESM hybrid coordinates to pressure coordinates on an unstructured grid.

Prototype

	function vinth2p_nodes (
		datai      : numeric,  
		hbcofa [*] : numeric,  
		hbcofb [*] : numeric,  
		plevo  [*] : numeric,  
		psfc       : numeric,  
		intyp  [1] : integer,  
		p0     [1] : numeric,  
		ii     [1] : integer,  
		kxtrp  [1] : logical   
	)

	return_val  :  numeric

Arguments

datai

An array of 2, 3, or 4 dimensions. Needs to contain a level dimension in hybrid coordinates. The order of the dimensions is specific. The two rightmost dimensions must be level x nodes [e.g. T(time,lev,nodes)]. The order of the level dimension must be top-to-bottom.

hbcofa

A one-dimensional array containing the hybrid A coefficients. Must have the same dimension as the level dimension of datai. The order must be top-to-bottom. Note: These are expected to be normalized to one (1.0). If not, divide by P0.

hbcofb

A one-dimensional array containing the hybrid B coefficients. Must have the same dimension as the level dimension of datai. The order must be top-to-bottom.

plevo

A one-dimensional array of output pressure levels in mb.

psfc

A multi-dimensional array of surface pressures in Pa. Must have the same dimension sizes as the corresponding dimensions of datai (minus the level dimension).

intyp

Scalar integer value equal to the interpolation type: 1 = LINEAR, 2 = LOG, 3 = LOG LOG

Scalar numeric value equal to surface reference pressure in mb.

Not used at this time. Set to 1.

kxtrp

Logical. False => no extrapolation when the pressure level is outside of the range of psfc.

Return value

A multi-dimensional array of the same size as datai except that the level coordinate has been replaced by plevo. The function automatically copies the metadata from datai to return_val.

The type of the output data will be double only if psfc and datai are of type double. Otherwise, the return type will be float.

Description

Interpolates hybrid coordinates to pressure coordinates. The type of interpolation is currently a variant of transformed pressure coordinates with the interpolation type specified by intyp. All hybrid coordinate values are transformed to pressure values. If datai is on midlevels (interfaces), then hyam/hybm (hyai/hybi) coefficients should be input.

This is the exact routine used within the original CESM Processor. The mixture of Pa for psfc and mb for plevo and p0 is specified by the source routine.

Examples

Example 1

The following required that the hyam be normalized to one. Here, the "cell" is the same as a "node". The copy_VarAtts which is located in "contributed.ncl" can be used to copy attributes.

  f    = addfile("MRWB4N6_R2B04L19_0001.nc", "r" )

  psfc = f->PS                  ; (time,cell)
  hyam = f->hyam                ; hybrid coef: mlev(19)                
  hybm = f->hybm 

  hyam = hyam/sum(hyam)         ; normalize so they look like CAM

  T    = f->T                   ; (time,lev,cell)
  printVarSummary(T)            ; [mlev | 19] x [cell | 20480]
  printMinMax(T, True)

; interpolate from model hybrid levels to pressure levels

  plevo = (/850,700,500,250,100,50/)
  plevo@units = "hPa"
  plevo!0     = "plevo"

  P0mb = 1000.                  ; reference pressure [mb]

  Tp   = vinth2p_nodes (T,hyam,hybm,plevo,psfc,1,P0mb,1,True)
  copy_VarAtts(T, Tp)      ; copy attributes
  printVarSummary(Tp)       
  printMinMax(Tp, True)

The resulting output looked like: