Program zonal_mean

Configuration file

The options for the execution of zonal_mean can be set in the configuration file zonal_mean.inp:

12 01 03 2008                                 ! start date
12 02 03 2008                                 ! end date
/private.archive/icg112/zonal_mean_new/2008   ! output directory
/usr/nfs/archive/ecmwf/nc                     ! directory with ECMWF/isentropic files
ecmwf                                         ! prefix for input files
6                                             ! time increment (in hours)
press                                         ! name of vertical coordinate
n                                             ! use eqlat (instead of lat)
0                                             ! resolution [km]
icg112                                        ! userid
9                        ! number of output parameters
U                        ! list of output parameters (one name per line)
V
TEMP_DOT
SH
O3
GPH
TEMP
THETA
PV_ISOBAR

Output files

The NetCDF output files are created in the directory specified in zonal_mean.inp and are named:

zm_ecmwf_ECT_yymmddhh.nc
zm_ecmwf_ECZ_yymmddhh.nc
zm_ecmwf_ECP_yymmddhh.nc

If the time increment is not 24 hours, the time increment (in hours) is specified in the output filename after the date
e.g.: zm_ecmwf_ECT_yymmddhh_06.nc