Tools

Below, you find a list of useful tools available for pre- and postprocessing. If you have any suggestions for further tools to be included please contact us.


NCREGRID

  • Type

    pre- and post processing

  • Description

    NCREGRID is a tool (written in FORTRAN-90) for data transfer of gridded 2- and 3-dimensional (spatial) geophysical/geochemical scalar fields between grids of different resolutions. The algorithm handles data on rectangular latitude/longitude grids (not necessarily evenly spaced) and vertical pressure hybrid grids of arbitrary resolution. The input/output data format is netCDF. NCREGRID can be used as a ‚stand-alone‘ program, and/or linked as an interface to a model, in order to re-grid automatically the input from an arbitrary grid space onto the required grid resolution.

  • Developer

    Patrick Jöckel

  • Prerequisites

    netCDF-library (with Fortran-90 interface): https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/

  • Further Information

    http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/6/3557/2006/
    http://www.pa.op.dlr.de/~PatrickJoeckel/ncregrid/

nc2mc

mchlog

  • Type

    ksh-script

  • Description

    This ksh-script can be used to identify the (correctly marked!) user specific changes in the code (MESSy change-logger).

  • Developer

    Patrick Jöckel

  • Prerequisites

    awk

  • Further Information

    mchlog or mchlog -h for usage information

mprenc, mprenc_all

ncdx

openDX add-ons

prodloss

  • Type

    preprocessing for MECCA1 and MECCA

  • Description

    prodloss (written in Fortran95) can be used to identify production and loss-terms of a species family automatically and create a diagtrac.tex file for application in MECCA1 and MECCA.

  • Developer

    Volker Grewe

  • Prerequisites

    a valid MECCA1/KPP1 or MECCA/KPP equation file

  • Further Information

    https://www.geosci-model-dev.net/10/2615/2017/gmd-10-2615-2017-supplement.pdf

strato3bud

  • Type

    postprocessing for 3D simulations with stratospheric chemistry

  • Description

    strato3bud (written in Fortran95) can be used to calculate the stratospheric ozone budget (production and loss terms). The code is based on previously available FERRET-scripts.

  • Developer

    Hella Garny

  • Prerequisites

    the required 3D output from the model simulation

  • Further Information

    the README in the distribution

temdiag

  • Type

    Fortran90-program for post-processing

  • Description

    This program computes the Eliassen-Palm (EP) flux, the zonal-mean zonal wind tendency due to the EP flux divergence, and the residual-mean meridional circulation in latitude-pressure coordinates for every given input time step. The calculations are based on Andrews, D. G., Mahlman, J. D., & Sinclair, R. W., 1983, https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1983)040%3C2768:ETWATM%3E2.0.CO;2.

  • Developer

    Roland Walz

  • Prerequisites

    This program requires a single input netCDF-file with 4D (time, lev, lat, lon) fields of temperature [K], u- and v-wind [m/s], and vertical velocity [Pa/s].

  • Further Information

    the README and temdiag.f90 in the distribution