[ncl-talk] 3-d aerosol fields

Debasish Hazra debasish.hazra5 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 11 14:57:30 MST 2016


Thanks David. will wait for newer relase of NCL to read this fields
properly.

Debasish

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 4:25 PM, David Brown <dbrown at ucar.edu> wrote:

> NCL's decoding of GRIB2 aerosol files is still a work in progress. The
> current development code gives better results than you are obtaining,
> but it needs further development. As of now the aerosol type is
> decoded so the difference between a MASSMR (Mass mixing ratio) record
> of, for example, "Sea Salt Dry" and "Sulfate Dry" is detected and
> difference variables are created for each. What is not yet implemented
> are two new dimension types: one for aerosol size and one for aerosol
> wavelength. Consequently, NCL does not yet distinguish between records
> that only differ by the size or wavelength of a specific aerosol type.
>
> Implementing these new dimensions requires enough new code for the
> GRIB2 reader that it will probably not make the impending release of
> 6.4.0. It is a high priority though and we certainly hope to include
> it in the follow up 6.4.1 release.
>  -dave
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 7:16 AM, Debasish Hazra
> <debasish.hazra5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am reading 3-d aerosol fields of Mass mixing ratio with NCL. But I
> found
> > difference between variable list of ncl and wgrib2. Attached are the file
> > dumps from both of them, but don't see correponsdence between the two. I
> > have put data a3df06.grib2 in the ftp. Any help on this.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Debasish
> >
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