[NARCCAP-discuss] tas versus tasmax
daryl herzmann
akrherz at iastate.edu
Thu Feb 14 12:07:51 MST 2013
Hello,
The tasmax and tasmin files are from 6 UTC to 6 UTC, to more approximate a
local calendar day. Are you computing from 0 UTC to 0 UTC?
daryl
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013, Tim Keitt wrote:
> I think I've misunderstood the relationship between the tas (surface
> temperature field) and tasmax (daily maximum surface temperature), or
> our code to extract these values is wrong (we are checking).
>
> We find that the maximum tas value in a given day is greater than the
> tasmax value about 50% of the time. I had assumed this was impossible,
> but perhaps I misinterpreted the docs.
>
> THK
>
>
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