<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dear all,</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I have daily interpolated olr data from NOAA (<a href="https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/">https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/</a>). I already expressed these data by pentads (73 timesteps). I wanted to do a 20-72 days bandpass filter (butterworth).</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I am confused as to the correct cutoff frequencies should I use and the idea behind this.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The time step of the data sets is 1 (1 to 73). Is this the correct way of doing this?</font></div><div><pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding:0px;line-height:12pt;border-style:solid;border-width:0px 0px 15px;border-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></pre><pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding:0px;line-height:12pt;border-style:solid;border-width:0px 0px 15px;border-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>fca = dt/t1 = 1./72. (low frequency cutoff)
fcb = dt/t2 = 1./20. (high frequency cutoff)</b></font></span></pre></div><div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Or this:</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">fca = dt/t1 = 5./72. (low frequency cutoff)</span><br></b></font></span></div><div><pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding:0px;line-height:12pt;border-style:solid;border-width:0px 0px 15px;border-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>fcb = dt/t2 = 5./20. (high frequency cutoff)</b></font></span></pre><pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding:0px;line-height:12pt;border-style:solid;border-width:0px 0px 15px;border-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I hope anyone can help me.<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></font></pre><pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding:0px;line-height:12pt;border-style:solid;border-width:0px 0px 15px;border-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></pre><pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding:0px;line-height:12pt;border-style:solid;border-width:0px 0px 15px;border-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Many thanks in advance,</font></pre><pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding:0px;line-height:12pt;border-style:solid;border-width:0px 0px 15px;border-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Lyndon</font></pre></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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