<div dir="ltr"><div>In brief: The <i>wgt_vert_avg_beta</i> function should be deprecated or eliminated.<br><br>----<br><br></div><div>The code is complicated because it was originally created to handle standard raob data. Then it was mangked to allow significant levels. It allowed arbitrarily located missing values. It got complicated.<br><br></div><div>I will provide the fortran code offline for your perusal.<br><br></div><div>D<br></div><div><br> <br></div><div><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 2:15 PM, David Ahijevych <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ahijevyc@ucar.edu" target="_blank">ahijevyc@ucar.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi, <div>I would like to start a conversation about the function <i>wgt_vert_avg_beta</i>. The documentation gives an overview of its basic purpose and refers to a journal article, listed as "<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:courier;font-size:13.333333015441895px">Climate Diagnostics from Global Analyses: Conservation of Mass ....</span></div><pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding:0px;font-size:13.333333015441895px;line-height:12pt;font-family:courier;border-style:solid;border-width:0px 0px 15px;border-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Kevin Trenberth </pre><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:courier;font-size:13.333333015441895px">July, 1991, pp 707- </span></div><div><br></div><div>but I still have some questions about how the pressure top and pressure depths are computed. Because it is a "built-in" and not a "contributed" NCL function, I'm not sure how to check the source code.</div><div><br></div><div>The journal article itself seems to have a mistake in it (delta-p associated with p1 in Fig. 1 should be 175 mb, not 125 mb), although I may have missed something. </div><div><br></div><div>I also have some simple examples that illustrate odd results.</div><div><br></div><div>Dave</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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