[MITgcm-devel] Problems with diagnostics package and mnc

[Ed Hill]

On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 10:54 -0500, Baylor Fox-Kemper wrote:
> Hi Ed,
>    Seems to work, except for one other issue.  The diagnostics output 
> files are correctly getting x  and y coordinate variables, but not z.  
> This is a problem in ferret, because you will have to work hard to 
> compare a variable loaded from state with a coordinate z to one with 
> index z.  This is particularly a problem since the coordinate values 
> are decreasing instead of increasing (don't ask why, just a ferret 
> quirk).

Hi Baylor,

Because of the way that the DIAGNOSTICS package is written (eg. the way
you can specify individual Z levels), I think it'll be tough to handle
the Z dim in a way that exactly matches the state files.

However, if you have DIAGNOSTICS compute and print all of the Z levels
for a particular set of diags, then I think you can use NCO rename the
"Zdxxxxx" dimension to "Z" and everything should be fine for ferret.

Or am I missing something?

Ed

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