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Converting CERRA (lambert conformal) to rotated latlon grid

Added by Michał Jędrzejczyk 5 months ago

Hi,
I want to regrid CERRA data to rotated latlon so that it is compatible with JRodos software and so that the grid is coarser.

My questions:

1. Do u,v vectors need any special treatment like rotating from grid-relative form to another or is cdo -f grb2 remapbil,mylcc_regrid14rgll.txt uv_lambert.grib2 uv_latlon.grib2 command enough to interpolate the vectors correctly?

2. When interpolating to another hybrid model level structure, does cdo automatically detect that it is dealing with velocities or do u,v need to have specific variable names or parameter ids?

The content of mylcc_regrid14rgll.txt:

gridtype  = projection
gridsize  = 31073            
xsize     = 193
ysize     = 161
xname     = rlon
xlongname = "longitude in rotated pole grid" 
xunits    = "degrees" 
yname     = rlat
ylongname = "latitude in rotated pole grid" 
yunits    = "degrees" 
xfirst    = -10.000          
xinc      = 0.125            
yfirst    = -16.500          
yinc      = 0.125            
scanningMode = 64
grid_mapping = rotated_pole
grid_mapping_name = rotated_latitude_longitude
grid_north_pole_latitude = 32.5       
grid_north_pole_longitude = -170.0    
north_pole_grid_longitude = 0.0

Thank you,
Michał


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RE: Converting CERRA (lambert conformal) to rotated latlon grid - Added by Rostislav Kouznetsov 2 months ago

Hi Michał,

We have the same issue with SILAM. So far it cannot run in LCC, so we approximate it with rotta.
For small areas it is quite accurate and avoids remapping.
You can try to craft something out of the attached script to the netcdf file obtained with

$ cdo -f nc copy uv_lambert.grib2 uv_lambert.nc

Once you make the corresponding rotated-grid spec, you can use

$ cdo setgrid,yourrll.grid uv_lambert.grib2 uv_rll.grib2

just to replace the grid.
There will be slight mismatch between the grid, but in return you will have no artifacts of remapping and resampling GRIB. The latter are arguably more evil...

BR
Rostislav

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