remapcon is mass conservative ?
Added by Badia Moragas over 11 years ago
Dear everybody,
I want to remap an emissions file (non-rotated) to my model grid (lat-lon rotated). So I use this cdo command:
cdo remapcon2,grid_rot_nmmb grid_tno_setgrid.nc test.nc
Where grid_rot_nmmb is:
gridtype = lonlat
xname = lon
yname = lat
xunits = degrees
yunits = degrees
xsize = 339
ysize = 309
xfirst = -33
xinc = 0.2
yfirst = -25
yinc = 0.2
xnpole = -169
ynpole = 44
After this remapping I compare the mass of my pollutants and change, so I suspect that this command: remapcon2 is not conservative:
3.51578e+06 > 2.55739e+06
Original emissions file:
cdo output -selvar,NOx -fldsum grid_tno_setgrid.nc
cdo output: Started child process "selvar,NOx -fldsum grid_tno_setgrid.nc (pipe1.1)".
cdo(2) selname: Started child process "fldsum grid_tno_setgrid.nc (pipe2.1)".
3.51578e+06
File after remapping in my model grid:
cdo output -selvar,NOx -fldsum test.nc
cdo output: Started child process "selvar,NOx -fldsum test_con_w.nc (pipe1.1)".
cdo(2) selname: Started child process "fldsum test_con_w.nc (pipe2.1)".
2.55739e+06
I am doing something wrong?
Thank you very much,
Alba