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Help with CDO lowpass

Added by Daniel Mendes over 3 years ago

Help with CDO lowpass. Hi! I am unsure about the results I obtained from applying the CDO manual. I need to pass the low-pass filter to see the effects of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation on my data. My rainfall anomaly data is monthly for a 34-year series.
Can someone help me?


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RE: Help with CDO lowpass - Added by Ralf Mueller over 3 years ago

hi Daniel again!

how does the result look like? What exactly did you call?

RE: Help with CDO lowpass - Added by Daniel Mendes over 3 years ago

Hi!

What can you suggest to me to solve the problem.
He would be:

cdo lowpass, 1/408 sst.anomaly.nc out.nc?

RE: Help with CDO lowpass - Added by Ralf Mueller over 3 years ago

Well I don't even know, what your threshold frequency should be. How could I suggest you anything reasonable? the related frequeny for a 10-year-peroid is 0.1

hth
ralf

RE: Help with CDO lowpass - Added by Daniel Mendes over 3 years ago

Hi! Thank you very much.

How can I know about my maximum frequency. My time in the series is 408 times.I think your answer is correct, as applied 0.1 I suppress all frequencies less than 10 years old.

RE: Help with CDO lowpass - Added by Daniel Mendes over 3 years ago

... or it would be the following: I have 408 months, proportionally, for 34 years. I would like to observe frequencies of 10 years (PDO), therefore: 120 months. Would it be 1/120?

RE: Help with CDO lowpass - Added by Ralf Mueller over 3 years ago

the filters take into account the real time of the time axis. That's why the number of timestamps is not important as long as you have enough for properly doing an frequency analysis at all. Monthly output for a once-every-10-years analysis should be fine. As stated in the documentation frequency notation of these operators is per-year. This means

parameter Timeperiod/Frequency
0.5 every 2 years
0.2 every 5 years
0.1 every 10 years
2 every 6 months

Another example can be found here

RE: Help with CDO lowpass - Added by Daniel Mendes over 3 years ago

Thank you very much! I don't know how to thank you. I'm under a lot of pressure and your help is essential.

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