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clmMonLLLT

Calculates long term monthly means (monthly climatology) from monthly data: (lev,lat,lon,time) 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 clmMonLLLT (
		x [*][*][*][*] : numeric   
	)

	return_val [*][*][*][12] :  numeric

Arguments

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

Return value

An array of the same size and type as x except that the rightmost dimension will be of size 12.

Description

Calculate long term monthly means (monthly climatology) from monthly data.

Examples

The following require that contributed.ncl be loaded prior to invoking the function.

       load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/contributed.ncl"

Example 1

Calculate the monthly climatology of u(lev,lat,lon,time) where

[lev | 23] x [lat | 128] x [lon | 256] x [time | 528]

This represent 44 years [44*12=528] of monthly data. Consider the following code snippet:

      f    = addfile("x.1958-2001.nc, "r")
      u    = f->U
      uClm = clmMonLLLT( u )
      printVarSummary(uClm)

The result is: