[MITgcm-devel] diagnostics: fixing variances

[Ed Hill]

On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 10:52 -0700, Dimitris Menemenlis wrote:
> Ed's fix would double the precision of the
> *SQ fields without increasing their size.


Hi Dimitris & Gael,

Andrea, Chris, and I talked about the variance precisions and the upshot
is that we're all a little too busy to implement them this week.  

So, the choices are:

 1) implement the std dev diagnostics yourselves within the 
      diagnostics package,
 2) write out the few fields needed at REAL*8, or
 3) use your "SALT-35" hack if you think it'll actually work
      -- but I suspect that it'll buy you *only* one additional 
      significant digit which is almost pointless, right?

Ed

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