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Why did the grid be set to two forms with a and b suffixes in the source code of gen_domain.F90

dayon

dayon

Member
Dear scientists of NCRA

Sorry to bother you, when I read the code of gen_domain.F90 in tools/ folder, something makes me confused. I want to learn "Why did the grid be set to two forms with a and b suffixes in the source code of gen_domain.F90"?

looking forward your reply, and thank you every much.

Dayon
 
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mlevy

Michael Levy
CSEG and Liaisons
Staff member
Hi Dayon,

The other mapping tools typically name the grids _src (to signify the source grid, or where data is being mapped from) and _dst (to signify the destination grid, or where data is being mapped to). However, gen_domain generates output files on both grids (two on the atmosphere grid and one on the ocean grid) so the source / destination labels don't make sense. Therefore we differentiate between them by naming them _a (ocean) and _b (atmosphere).

~Mike
 
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