Aloha,<br><br>does your geopotential equal gz? <br><br>d(geopot)/dz=d(gz)/dz=gdz/dz=g <br><br>This is a constant and would yield a straight line with the value of g.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:49 AM, Aishwarya <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spaceaish@gmail.com" target="_blank">spaceaish@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thank you. BUt if i set one specific level (say 500mb) and perform finite diference, i find a straight line!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
<div class="im">On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Jeff Duda <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeffduda319@gmail.com" target="_blank">jeffduda319@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">You can't use cdiff in the vertical. You must calculate the derivative using a manual centered difference. For example, 'd 0.5*(geopot(z+1)-geopot(z-1))'<div>
<br>Jeff Duda<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Aishwarya <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spaceaish@gmail.com" target="_blank">spaceaish@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div>Hi,<br><br>I'm trying to find vertical derivative of geopotential (geopt). I tried d cdiff(geopt,z), i find the error :<br>
<span></span>Error from CDIFF: Specified dimension non varying<br>Operation Error: Error from cdiff function<br>
Error ocurred at column 1<br>DISPLAY error: Invalid expression<br> Expression = cdiff(u,z)<br><br>Any help would be great!<br><br>Thank you,<br>-------<br><font style="font-family:times new roman,serif" size="2"><i><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">Aishwarya,</span><br style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">
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