• ClamsTools
• zonal_mean

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 11 03 2008                                 ! end date
/private.archive/icg112/zonal_mean_new/2008   ! output directory
/usr/nfs/clams/icg125/cawses/isen_zeta/links  ! directory with isentropic files (ECT,ECZ)
/usr/nfs/archive/ecmwf/nc                     ! directory with ECMWF files (ECP)
6                                             ! time increment (in hours)
0  1  0                                       ! ECT,ECZ,ECP (0/1)
n                                             ! use eqlat (instead of lat)
icg112                                        ! userid

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