regrid2 and fwrite

[Lee Byerle]

Megan,

For your new dimension environment within the while loop, try setting lon
from 0 to 357.5 (instead of 0 to 360), lat is okay.

Lee

> Hi all-
> I'm trying to regrid the NCEP reanalysis sensible and latent heat from a
> T62 Gaussian grid to a 2.5x2.5 lat-lon grid using box averaging.  I've
> written a simple script below that runs, but when I plot the data on the
> new 2.5x2.5 grid, it bears little similarity to the original data, and all
> the features seem to be slanted.  I can't quite determine if the data has
> just been smoothed during the regridding,thus changing some of the
> features, or if there's a problem with the way I'm writing the file.  I'm
> assuming that regridding the data should not make a drastic difference in
> the features. Any help anyone can provide is greatly appreciated.  Thank
> you!
> ~Megan
> Script:
> 'reinit'
> *
> 'open /data/temp4/megan/decdata.ctl'
> *
> *
> 'set fwrite /data/temp4/megan/sensible_heat_flux7904.data'
> 'set gxout fwrite'
> *'set x 1 192'
> *'set y 1 94'
> countt=1
> while (countt<=7)
>    'set x 1 192'
>    'set y 1 94'
>    'set t 'countt
>    'define shtflx = regrid2(htfx,2.5)'
>    'set lat -90 90'
>    'set lon 0 360'
>    'd shtflx'
>    countt=countt+1
>    endwhile
> 'disable fwrite'
> 'quit'
>
>
> Megan Linkin
> Graduate Research Assistant
> CSS 2330
> Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
> University of Maryland
> College Park, MD 20742
> 301-405-7093
> mlinkin at atmos.umd.edu
>