[MITgcm-devel] Global base for a EXCH2 tile

[Chris Hill]

Ed,

 Should we talk to Benno about the grid thing?

Chris 

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> [mailto:mitgcm-devel-bounces at mitgcm.org] On Behalf Of Ed Hill
> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 1:48 PM
> To: MITgcm-devel
> Subject: Re: [MITgcm-devel] Global base for a EXCH2 tile
> 
> On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 13:15, Chris Hill wrote:
> > Ed,
> > 
> >  The numbers exch2_txgloballo and exch2_tygloballo contain the base 
> > coord in the global index space for a tile. These should be
> going into
> > the nc attributes if they aren't already.
> 
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> Yes, they're included as global attributes.  I put copies of the 
> latest files generated by MNC from the
> global_ocean.cs32x15 verification case
> at:
> 
> http://ingrid.mit.edu/SOURCES/.MIT/.MITgcm/.MNC_testing/.test_
> 20040312/
> 
> Unfortunately, Ingrid doesn't create the helpful "your points are 
> located here on the globe" plot for the MNC-generated data sets as it 
> did with my earlier tests such as:
> 
> http://ingrid.mit.edu/SOURCES/.MIT/.LOCAL/.PEOPLE/.EH3/.test_2
> d/.test_2d.nc/
> 
> I think its a fundamental (hard-coded) problem with Ingrid--that it 
> doesn't know how to handle these simultaneous coordinate systems.  But 
> perhaps theres some way to improve the Ingrid presentation quality 
> without having to split our output into a one-file-per-grid-type 
> layout?  Anyway, I'm looking into it.
> 
> Ed
> 
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