Meaning of field in *.b file

[Max]

Hi Alan

I tried to find the meaning of abbreviations of filed names in *.b file but I couldn't.

Do you know what those as below represent ?

field     

montg1   =

srfhgt   =

surflx   =

salflx   =

bl_dpth  =

mix_dpth =

tmix     =

smix     =

thmix    =

umix     =

vmix     =

kemix    =

covice   =

thkice   =

temice   =

u_btrop  =

v_btrop  =

kebtrop  =

k.e.     =

Thank you.

-Max

[Alan]

I don't recommend accessing the archive files directly, because some of the fields have strange units or need to be added to other fields to be useful.  Instead, extract "human friendly" fields using archv2{data,ncdf}{2d,3z,2t}, where the output can be .[ab] files or netCDF or several other formats.  The archv2data2d.f program illustrates how to use each field if you do what to access the archive file directly.

Alan.

[Max]

Thank you, Alan.

I want to use all available monthly mean data at /meanstd and I couldn't find some of them like 2008-09 ~ 2009-05 in the case of GLBa0.08.

Do you have them?

Also how can I convert (idm, jdm) to (longitude,latitude)?

I couldn't find the info at archv2data2d.f program.

-Max

[Alan]

The 90.6 monthly means are not available.  The reanalysis (GLBb0.08 19.1) covers this time period, but with a different configuration.

If you write a netCDF file, it will contain the lon and lat.  However, that does not help in choosing the subdomain you want.

Use hycom/ALL/bin/hycom_lonlat2ij in a directory that contains regional.grid.a:

ajax 99> pwd
/home/wallcraf/hycom/GLBa0.08/topo
ajax 100> hycom_lonlat2ij 30.0 -30
 3949 1112
ajax 101> hycom_lonlat2ij 120.00 30.25
  574 1902

Note that idm is 4500, so 574 is also 5074 (for setting idmp in ncdf3z_991_archMN.2014_04_ind.csh).

Ther inverse operation is hycom_lonlat2ij:
ajax 102> hycom_ij2lonlat 3949 1112
  30.000E  29.972S

Alan.