[MITgcm-support] grid question

Yuan Lian lian at ashimaresearch.com
Tue Dec 4 16:24:26 EST 2012


The outputs retain on the same grids as in simulations, unless they are specified in the diagnostics, e.g. using the diagnostics package.

Yuan


Jody Klymak <jklymak at uvic.ca> wrote:

>No, I don't believe there is any interpolation.  I'm pretty sure U is on the XG grid, and V on the XC (for example).  Th actual gurus can let us know if I am mistaken.
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>Cheers,   Jody
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>On Dec 4, 2012, at  10:24 AM, Ping Zhai <pingzhai at MIT.EDU> wrote:
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>> Hi Jody,
>> Thanks for your reply. I know that U, V and  S, T are calculated at different grids. I want to know whether MITgcm keeps these grids in the output or they interpolate the output U, V ...... on a normalized grids. Do you know that?
>> Best,
>> Ping
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>> On 12/4/2012 1:14 PM, Jody Klymak wrote:
>>> Hi Ping,
>>> 
>>> Sec 2.11 Spatial discretization of the dynamical equations, of my version of the manual explains xc versus xg. I think in general "g" means boundaries (i.e. u in the x-direction), and "c" means centers (i.e. density).
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>>> Cheers,   Jody
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>>> On Dec 4, 2012, at  10:02 AM, Ping Zhai <pingzhai at MIT.EDU> wrote:
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>>>> Hi,
>>>> I have a question about the grids of some variables. The grids: XC, XG, YC, YG, RC and RG.
>>>> My output files are like: U.0000691200.data and U.0000691200.meta
>>>> What horizontal and vertical grids do these variables (U, V, Eta, S, T, UUtave, UTtave, ......) use?
>>>> I searched in MITgcm manual, but could not find the information.
>>>> Best,
>>>> Ping
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