Re: Spectral analysis: variance per month?

Hi Maurice,

You are not being ignored. I sent your question to
Rich Neale. He may be off-site at a mtg.

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My guess ...

The rhs histogram plots for say January were created via

      var = (1/N)*(xjan(n)-xJAN)^2 maybe (1/[N-1]) rather than 1/N

      where xJAN is the overall January mean and xjan are the individual
      January monthly means ....

I am sure the data used in the spectrum were detrended and tapered.

I would suggest that the time series of monthly (?) values be detrended
before doin any calculations. (a) detrend the whole time series;
(b) taper (a) and compute the spectrum; (c) calculate the individual
monthly variances for histogram

On 08/30/2011 09:49 AM, Maurice.McHugh@noaa.gov wrote:
> Good morning all,
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> I am going to perform a spectral analysis on model output and would like to see spectral variance per month in addition to variance per period.
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> For an example of what I attempting to produce please see the rightmost element of the attached figure, where variance (K^2/month) is depicted on a monthly basis. This screenshot was captured from slide 3 in http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/working_groups/Ocean/presentations/OMWG07/neale2.pdf.
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> How can I use NCL to reconstruct variance on a per month basis, in addition to the more traditional: "variance per spectral frequency" which is the default output from NCL's spectral analysis function?
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> Many thanks,
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