[Wrf-users] help: WRF outputs

[Andrew Robbie (GMail)]

Some fields are 'instantaneous' like wind velocity (whatever that means,
depends on the time step and the accuracy of the model) and some are
accumulated, like rainfall, over the duration of the output time step. The
accumulated fields are marked as such in the wrf output, use ncdump to look
at the header. Unfortunately there is no naming convention.

You have to be careful therefore that instead of deleting unwonted time
steps outputs that you merge them if you care about totals.

Andrew
Not a meteorologist

On Tuesday, 17 July 2012, Gisele dos Santos Zepka wrote:

> Dear users,
>
> The history interval of my WRF outputs is set to be of one hour. I have
> a doubt about the outputs: does each output hour is an average of some
> kind from the past hour or the instantaneous value of the output time?
>
> Any help will be great.
> Thanks
>
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