Visualization of CAM restart field

[andrea_borrelli@cmcc_it]

Hello everyone,

I would like to see a CAM's master restart field with ne30np4 horizontal resolution. Is there anyone who knows tell me a way to display a field described by ncol_d = 86400?
In attachment you will find the ncdump of the CAM restart file.

Many thanks in advance for the help!
Andrea

 

[hannay]

In NCL, there are visualization tools to draw contours of data on an unstructured grid (like Spectral element).
See: https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/EGU2013/There are also tools in ncl that allows to regrid from an unstructured grid to a lat/lon grdi:
https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/ESMF.shtml

 

[andrea_borrelli@cmcc_it]

Sure, I know that tool, but I want to display some field like T (see file attached in the previous post) that is described differently from the rest of other variables listed. How can I do the plot of T field if I don't have any lat/lon reference that describe the particular grid?

 

[eaton]

The easiest thing would be to just have your graphics code read the lat/lon values from a history file.  Or you could use NCO operators to extract the lat/lon from a history file and glue them into a restart file.  The restart file doesn't contain lat/lon because it doesn't need it, and it's not designed for visualization purposes.