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gaussian weight

brianpm

Active Member
Joyce,

As far as I know, the gaussian weight is just the area-weighting for each latitude, and has nothing to do with the atmosphere. It is slightly different than just multiplying by cos(latitude) because of the mesh used by CAM.
 
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