<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Amanda<br><br></div>The developer of the ' moc_globe_atl' function:<br><br><a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/moc_globe_atl.shtml">https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/moc_globe_atl.shtml</a> <br><br>replied to me as follows:<br><br>==<br><br><div class="gmail_default">"I believe the moc_globe_atl function should work with any 1-D latitude grid (e.g.,
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fspan(-89.,89.,179) ); it does not require the actual lat_aux_grid array from the POP output."<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Cheers<br></div><div class="gmail_default">D<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 9:35 AM, Amanda Frigola <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:afrigola@marum.de" target="_blank">afrigola@marum.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div class="h5"><span style="font-family:verdana;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Dear all,</span><div style="font-family:verdana;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br><div style="font-size:13px">I would like to use ncl to calculate global MOC from the CCSM3 output, as default MOC calculations were turned off in my runs.</div><div style="font-size:13px">I found the function moc_globe_atl which does that: <a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/moc_globe_atl.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/<wbr>Document/Functions/Built-in/<wbr>moc_globe_atl.shtml</a>.</div><div style="font-size:13px">Nevertheless, this function requires lat_aux_grid as input parameter, and this variable is again unfortunately not available from my model output runs.</div><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px">My question would be: Is there a way to compute lat_aux_grid from the model output variables ULAT (or TLAT) or similar?</div><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px">Alternatively I thought of computing global MOC manually adapting the algorithm described in <a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/moc.shtml" target="_blank">https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/<wbr>Applications/moc.shtml</a>, using VVEL. </div><div style="font-size:13px">I was though wondering if neglecting the eddy-related meridional velocities would have a big impact on the results.</div><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px">I would appreciate any suggestions.</div><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px">Best wishes,</div></div><span style="font-family:verdana;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Amanda</span><span style="font-family:verdana;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></span><span style="font-family:verdana;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></span><div><span style="font-family:verdana;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">PS: I apologise if I sent the same email twice, I had the mail delivery disabled and I could not receive any answers. Please, in case someone already replied to my email, could you forward me the answer again? Sorry for the inconveniences. </span></div></div>
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