[MITgcm-support] output of regional statistics

[Brian Rose]

Hi again,

I now have the regional statistics up and running, but I'm confused about the output it generates.

I have set up 6 regions, non-overlapping, and I'm monitoring THETA and SALT in a file OcnStDiag.nc
When I read these into matlab using

OcnStDiag = rdmnc('MON/OcnStDiag.*')

I get fields with 7 elements rather than 6.  Elements 2 through 7 of each field appear to be the statistics from the regions I defined.  I'm trying to understand what the first element is, and haven't found any documentation about it.

For example:

>> OcnStDiag.THETA_ave

ans =

    0.1482    6.2174    8.1073    9.7795    9.7660    8.1065    6.2333

>> OcnStDiag.SALT_ave

ans =

    0.1482   34.3880   34.6294   34.7944   34.7877   34.6184   34.3785

The first element is the same number in both the SALT and THETA fields, so I'm not even sure what dimensions this number is supposed to have.

Help?

Thanks!

Brian

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Brian E.J. Rose, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate, Climate Dynamics
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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email:  brose at mit.edu
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