[ncl-talk] Using ESMF_Regrid to Interpolate lat/lon to Unstructured MPAS

Fri Apr 14 11:54:53 MDT 2017

Mary,

Thank you for these tests.

Just to confirm – in your tests, do you get 327680 or 163842 interpolated values, i.e what dimension size is reported in printVarSummary(var_regrid)?

My script also runs o.k. on NCL6.2 and produces correct maps of interpolated emissions, but my issue is that these emissions are not at the desired 163842 target lat/lon points (MPAS center lat/lon) but rather the 327680 MPAS vertex lat/lon.

Since my ultimate goal is to interpolate and then write out these interpolated emissions as input to MPAS, creating a map is not that important to me but obtaining the interpolated value at the right set of target lat/lon points is.

I’m sorry if I did not describe this problem clearly in my initial email.

Christian

From: Mary Haley [mailto:haley at ucar.edu]
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 1:46 PM
To: Hogrefe, Christian <Hogrefe.Christian at epa.gov>
Cc: ncl-talk at ucar.edu
Subject: Re: [ncl-talk] Using ESMF_Regrid to Interpolate lat/lon to Unstructured MPAS

Hi Christian,

I was able to run your script with just some minor changes to the directory paths, and it works with NCL V6.3.0 and NCL V6.4.0.

I believe if you upgrade NCL, you should be able to run this script without any changes. See the attached image.

Just for something different, I changed the contour levels and set cnFillPalette to a color map that starts with white:

;;    res at cnLevelSelectionMode = "ManualLevels"
;;    res at cnMinLevelValF       = 0.
;;    res at cnMaxLevelValF       = 1E-10
;;    res at cnLevelSpacingF      = 1E-11/2.

    res at cnLevelSelectionMode  = "ExplicitLevels"
    res at cnLevels              = ispan(1,100,5) * 1.e-12
    res at cnFillPalette         = "WhViBlGrYeOrRe"        ; "WhiteBlueGreenYellowRed"

I attached the second image as well.

--Mary

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 8:31 AM, Hogrefe, Christian <Hogrefe.Christian at epa.gov<mailto:Hogrefe.Christian at epa.gov>> wrote:
Mary,

Thank you very much for looking into this.

I uploaded the two NetCDF file to the ftp server last weekend. The two files are “edgar_HTAP_NOx_emi_TRANSPORT_2010.0.1x0.1.nc<http://edgar_HTAP_NOx_emi_TRANSPORT_2010.0.1x0.1.nc>” containing the data to be interpolated and the existing MPAS input file “static.90-25.usgs.nc<http://static.90-25.usgs.nc>” containing the DstGridLat and DstGridLon values. Please let me know if they are not there and I’ll upload them again.

Thanks,

Christian

From: Mary Haley [mailto:haley at ucar.edu<mailto:haley at ucar.edu>]
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2017 10:28 AM
To: Hogrefe, Christian <Hogrefe.Christian at epa.gov<mailto:Hogrefe.Christian at epa.gov>>
Cc: ncl-talk at ucar.edu<mailto:ncl-talk at ucar.edu>
Subject: Re: [ncl-talk] Using ESMF_Regrid to Interpolate lat/lon to Unstructured MPAS

Christian,

Sorry for the delay. I think the issue you are having might have been fixed in a later release of NCL.

I could try to verify this for you if you provide me with the two NetCDF files?  We have an ftp you can use, as long as the files are not too large.

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/report_bug.shtml#HowToFTP

Thanks

--Mary

On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 7:35 PM, Hogrefe, Christian <Hogrefe.Christian at epa.gov<mailto:Hogrefe.Christian at epa.gov>> wrote:

Using NCL version 6.2.1, I am trying to use ESMF_regrid to interpolate data from a regular lat/lon (0.1 x 0.1 degree) grid to an unstructured MPAS grid. I am working off of the ESMF_rect_to_unstruct.ncl template.

I am providing the DstGridLat and DstGridLon values from an existing MPAS input file. This MPAS mesh has nCells = 163842 cells and I am passing the double latCell(nCells) and double lonCell(nCells) variables to DstGridLat and DstGridLon.

Once the script starts processing the destination grid, the following screen output appears:

(0)           get_dst_grid_info: destination lat dims = (163842)

(0)           get_dst_grid_info: destination lon dims = (163842)

(0)           unstructured_to_ESMF: triangulating the data ... this can be slow

(0)           min/max ElementVertices = 0/163841

(0)           unstructured_to_ESMF: total number of elements created: 327680

After that, the weights are being generated and the input data is interpolated . However, the dimension of that interpolated output is 327680 (i.e. the number of “elements”), not 163842 (i.e. the number of destination lat/lon points specified). When I write out the interpolated data, it has 327680 values. That number of  “elements” matches the number of “Vertices” in my existing MPAS input file from which the DstGridLat and DstGridLon values were pulled.

I am sure I am missing something very basic, but I am stuck figuring out why the interpolated data has more elements than I am expecting.

I am attaching the script, screen output, header of the destination lat/lon grid description file provided to the script, and the headers of the SrcFileName, DstFileName, and ncf file containing the interpolated data that are created by the script.

I have also uploaded the files required to run the script (i.e. the edgar_HTAP_NOx_emi_TRANSPORT_2010.0.1x0.1.nc<http://edgar_HTAP_NOx_emi_TRANSPORT_2010.0.1x0.1.nc> file containing the data to be interpolated and the existing MPAS input file static.90-25.usgs.nc<http://static.90-25.usgs.nc> containing the DstGridLat and DstGridLon values) to the anonymous ftp server.

Thank you very much for your help,

Christian

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