[MITgcm-support] Query ?

[Martin Losch]

Amitabh,

the output files with the suffix *.data are binary IEEE big endian, the 
*.meta files are text (ascii) files that contain information on the 
size of the array and the length of the records in the *.data file. The 
number are time step numbers and mark the (model) time, when the files 
were written.

So, as an example, U.0000012345.001.001.meta contains information on 
U.0000012345.001.001.data. The 001.001 denote the tiles, relevant for 
domain decomposition, for example, in a run with MPI.

There are matlab-files in utils/matlab that uses the information to 
read the data into matlab. I assume that GrADs can handle binary data 
as well, but I have never worked with GrADs. Maybe I should start 
sometime (o:

Please have a look at the documentation at
http://mitgcm.org
specifically section 3.6, 3.6.1, and 3.6.2:
http://mitgcm.org/sealion/online_documents/node94.html

Regards,
Martin

On Monday, May 31, 2004, at 07:33 AM, Amitabh Mitra wrote:

>   Dear Sir,
>
>    The MITgcm model has been installed and compiled
>
>   on SGI origin.
>
>     The output files for experiment2 viz. U , V , W , T , S ,
>
>    Eta , pickup , pick_cd   are built in exe directory
>
>   of MITgcm .The files are in *.meta  and  *.data form.
>
>    How can I interpret the output ?
>
>   With regards ,
>
>    Amitabh Mitra
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