nc to ab

[Kate Lai]

Is there script to convert nc file in hycom native hybrid layers (not z level) to archv file?

Thank you very much for help. 

[Alan Wallcraft]

We don't have a utility to do this.  

The corresponding program to convert MOM6 output to a HYCOM archive file, mom6nc2archv.f, does the same job.  If you want to try to write your own "hycomnc2archv.f", based on the mom6 version, note that you probably have velocity on the p-grid rather than its native u and v grids.  There is a "p-vel" archive file type, which has field_p instead of "field  " in its .b file:

field_p     time step  model day  k  dens        min              max

Alan.