Finding N96 climatological SST fields on Hector

[watson]

I wish to run the atmosphere only configuration of UM 6.6.3 on Hector at N96 resolution and I require a climatological sea surface temperature field i.e. one value at each grid point for each month of the year. Something like this for N48 resolution seems to exist at /work/n02/n02/hum/ancil/atmos/n48/sst/hadisst_6190/v1/qrclim.sst - is there an equivalent somewhere for N96, on Hector or Monsoon? Thanks for your help.

[willie]

Hi,

On HECToR, there are

/work/n02/n02/hum/ancil/atmos/n96/orca1/sst/amip/1870-2008/v0/qrclim.sst
/work/n02/n02/hum/ancil/atmos/n96/orca1/sst/reynolds/1981_2009_360/v0/qrclim.sst

I don't know if these are "equivalent" but they may be worth investigating.

Regards,

Willie

[watson]

Thanks Willie. I took a look at those and they seem to be time-evolving fields i.e. they change every year, rather than a climatology which gets repeated year after year.

[ros]

Hi,

On HECToR, you might also want to take a look at

/work/n02/n02/hum/hg6.6.3/HG2AMIP_ancils/sst_amip_1870-2008

Regards,
Ros.

[watson]

Hi Ros,

Thanks for the reply. Again though that looks to be a time-evolving field rather than a climatology.

Cheers,

Peter

[willie]

Hi Peter,

One option is to use the central Ancillary program to generate the file for you. See

http://cms.ncas.ac.uk/CAP_INTERFACE/cap_general.php

regards,

Willie