EOF of Geopotential Height Diagnostic Module From NCAR¶
Last update: 03/11/2019
Contact info¶
Current Developer: Dani Coleman (bundy@ucar.edu), NCAR
Contributors: Dennis Shea, Andrew Gettleman, Jack Chen (NCAR)
This computes the climatological anomalies of 500 hPa geopotential height, then calculates the EOFs using NCL’s eofunc. The code is in NCL and requires model input:
monthly averaged surface pressure (ps),
monthly averaged geopotential height (zg).
Generates a netcdf file of climatological anomalies of 500 hPa geopotential height (compute_anomalies.ncl)
Calculates and plot EOFs of North Atlantic (eof_natlantic.ncl) and North Pacific regions using NCL function eofunc
Uses pre-made figures of eofs of NCEP observational data for comparison.
Open source copyright agreement¶
This package is distributed under the LGPLv3 license (see LICENSE.txt).
Functionality¶
All scripts can be found at: mdtf/MDTF_$ver/var_code/EOF_500hPa
Make anomalies (compute_anomalies.ncl)
2. Calculated and plots EOFs in N. Atlantic (eof_natlantic.ncl) and N. Pacific (eof_npacific.ncl)
Preprocessed observational data from NCEP as gif images are located in
mdtf/``inputdata/obs_data/EOF_500hPa
Place your input data at: inputdata/model/$model_name/day
index.html can be found at: mdtf/MDTF_$ver/wkdir/MDTF_$model_name
Required Programing Language and libraries¶
All these scripts required NCAR Command Language Version 6.3.0 or higher
Required input data to the module:
Monthly averaged surface pressure (ps)
Monthly averaged geopotential height (zg)