[Go-essp-tech] ok_min_mean_abs and ok_max_mean_abs

[Charles Doutriaux]

  As Karl mentioned, I got the max/min from looping over 20c3m models 
"monthly" in AR4.

If anybody as better values please forward them to us we'll gladly put 
them into the tables.

If anybody's interested I can search the code I used to search through 
the whole AR4 archive.

C.

On 11/8/10 2:07 PM, Karl Taylor wrote:
> Hi Denis,
>
> I'm copying Charles D. who I hope will check the following for 
> correctness.  As I recall:
>
> The mean_abs value is the temporal and spatial mean of the absolute 
> values of a field (based on latxlon grid cell values, but not area 
> weighting these).  The mean_abs value specified in the CMOR tables is 
> based on monthly means produced by CMIP3 models.  It basically gives 
> you the typical magnitude of the values of the field.  If a model has 
> a number much smaller or much larger than the CMOR table value, then 
> it may be unrealistic (or if off by an order of magnitude or more, it 
> probably means the units are wrong.)
>
> Charles can tell you how he got the "max" and the "min" that appear in 
> the table.
>
> regards,
> Karl
>
> On 11/8/10 11:43 AM, Denis Nadeau wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Do you know how the mean_abs found in CMOR tables were calculated for
>> some variables?  Is there some documentation about this?
>> I get warnings from cmor2 API and would like to investigate further what
>> they mean.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Denis
>>

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