[MITgcm-support] output of regional statistics

[David Ferreira]

  Brian,
The first field could be the global field. Although if you haven't asked 
for it, it could just be crap (and this could be a problem specific to mnc).
If this is the case, ask for the global value ("0") and those fields 
should fill up with sensible values.
david



On 10/1/10 11:25 AM, Brian Rose wrote:
> 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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