calcMonAnomTLL

Calculates monthly anomalies by subtracting the long term mean from each point (time,lat,lon version)

Prototype

load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/contributed.ncl"  ; This library is automatically loaded
                                                             ; from NCL V6.2.0 onward.
                                                             ; No need for user to explicitly load.

	function calcMonAnomTLL (
		x     [*][*][*] : float or double,  
		xAve [12][*][*] : numeric           
	)

	return_val [dimsizes(x)] :  numeric

Arguments

A three-dimensional array of any numeric type. Dimensions must be time,lat,lon The time dimension must be a multiple of 12.

A three-dimensional array equal to the monthly averages of x. The leftmost two dimensions are lat and lon, while the leftmost must be of size 12.

Return value

An array of the same size and type as x.

Description

Calculates climatological anomalies by subtracting the long term mean from each point. Assumes monthly data. If the input data contains metadata (e.g. coordinate variables and attributes), these will be retained.

See Also

calcMonAnomLLLT, calcMonAnomLLT, calcMonAnomTLLL, clmMonLLT, clmMonLLLT, clmMonTLL, clmMonTLLL

Examples

Example 1

;---Get data
  fa     = addfile("air.mean.nc","r")
  fb     = addfile("air.nobs.nc","r")
 
  air  = short2flt( fa->air)                           ; air temp        
  nobs = short2flt( fb->air)                           ; # obs for air
; filter out geographic locations that have < nMin observations
  nMin   = 2                                           ; min # obs
  air    = mask(air,nobs.ge.nMin,True)

;---Compute the climatology using a function in contributed.ncl
  yrStrt = 1950
  yrLast = 1979
  moStrt = (yrStrt-1800)*12              ; start subscript
  moLast = (yrLast-1800)*12 + 11         ; last  subscript
  clm = clmMonTLL (air(moStrt:moLast,:,:)) ; monthly climatology

;---Compute the anomalies from the climatology just computed
  xAnom = calcMonAnomTLL (air,clm)