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TMPP - The TM5 preprocessing
The TM5 community
Software
Installation
Running the main program
Rcfiles
The 'task' concept
File transfers
From ECMWF to your work station
Get files from ECMWF
Let TMPP write directly to your workstation
Transfering files from ftp
Running
Automatic submission with crontab
Lock file
Limitations (things to be done)
Slow retrieval of data with MARS
Slow interpolation from spectral to lat/lon fields
Reduced Gaussian grid vs zoom area
Documentation
About ECMWF data
Archives
Operational Data
ERA40 (ECMWF,KNMI)
Recent grib files
Rcfile settings
File name convention
Contents
Old grib files
Rcfile settings
File name convention
Contents
Glossary
Grids and transformations
Spherical coordinates
Spectral fields
Eigenfunctions of Laplacian
Fourrier coefficients
Evaluation over multiple longitudes
Evaluation at oposite latitudes
Triangular truncation
Derivatives
From spectral fields to grid
Gaussian grids
Vertical coordinate system
Mass average
TM5 data
Introduction
File name conventions
Horizontal grids
Vertical levels
Time resolution
Field description in output files
Archive
Operational data
ECMWF Re-Analysis (ERA40)
Production cycle
Introduction
Keys to be specified
Requirements for parent set
Examples
New global data
Global data through collecting layers
Global fields based on parent set
Coarse global, middle zoom, fine zoom zoom
Global 1x1 surface fields
Quick Start
Think
Login
Copy TMPP code
Code level selection
Check make file
Run
Get files from ftp server
Mass and mass-fluxes
Task
Content versions
Surface pressure and horizontal flux
Vertical flux
Surface pressure
Related material
Temperature
Task
Content versions
Fields and methode
Potential Vorticity, Potential Temperature, Eqv. Latitude
Task
Content versions
Fields
About potential vorticity
Definition
Implementation
PV from ECMWF?
Potential temperature
Equivalent latitude
Specific humidity
Task
Content versions
Fields and methode
Cloud parameters
Task
Content versions
Fields and methode
How to interpolate cloud cover
Horizontal interpolation
Vertical combination of layers
Currently implemented
Convective transport
Tasks
Content versions
Entrements and detrements
Mean wind
Task
Content versions
Fields and methode
Vertical diffusion
Tasks
Content versions
Fields and methode
Let's make things better
ERA40 diffusion fields
Task
Content versions
Fields and methode
Surface fields (deposition)
Task
Content versions
Fields and methode
Required fields
Surface roughness
Vegetation
Vegetation ratio
Vegetation type
Old surface fields
In future ?
Orography
Task
Fields and methode
TM3 meteo files (depricated)
Online meteo production
Scripts running at ecmwf
Missing files: manual fix
Bibliography
About this document ...
TM5 2009-03-03
