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Combine regional files to get one global file

Added by Frosi Ma over 5 years ago

Hello,

I have 7 nc-files; all containing information about the same variable for the same
time period and the same horizontal resolution, but in different regions:

  • Europa.nc
  • N_America.nc
  • S_America.nc
  • Asia.nc
  • Australia.nc
  • Africa.nc
  • Antartica.nc

Is there a cdo operation to combine all these regional files into one global nc-file?

Thank you very much!
Kind regards
Frosi


Replies (5)

RE: Combine regional files to get one global file - Added by kunal bali over 5 years ago

why don't you try

`cdo mergegrid inputfile.nc outputfile.nc`

regards
-------
Kunal

RE: Combine regional files to get one global file - Added by kunal bali over 5 years ago

kunal bali wrote:

why don't you try

<cdo mergegrid inputfile.nc outputfile.nc>

regards
-------
Kunal

RE: Combine regional files to get one global file - Added by Frosi Ma over 5 years ago

Hello Kunal and hello to all the others,

please excuse my late reply.

Unfortunately, cdo mergegrid is not working on curvilinear grids,
but all of my files have a curvilinear grid.

Here is, for example, an excerpt of the cdo sinfo of Europa.nc :

Grid coordinates :
1 : curvilinear : points=8100 (90x90)
lon : -37.8379 to 51.8379 degrees_east
lat : 10.4586 to 71.8329 degrees_north
2 : generic : points=1
3 : generic : points=8100 (90x90)
i3 : 1 to 90 by 1 1
i2 : 1 to 90 by 1 1
Vertical coordinates :
1 : surface : levels=1

The other files have the same grid coordinates, except for the
lon and lat ranges of course.

Right now, my plan is to:

  1. Interpolate all files on my desired lon-lat-grid, see below.
  2. Use cdo mergegrid to combine them to one global file.

My desired lon-lat-grid (gridID 27) is a 0.25° grid, taken from
another global ocean model:

gridtype = lonlat
gridsize = 980640
xname = longitude
xlongname = Longitude
xunits = degrees_east
yname = latitude
ylongname = Latitude
yunits = degrees_north
xsize = 1440
ysize = 681
xfirst = -180
xinc = 0.25
yfirst = -80
yinc = 0.25

Let's take again Europa.nc as an example, with the rounded
coordinates from above:

lon : -38 to 52 degrees_east
lat : 10 to 72 degrees_north

I transform my desired grid description according to those rounded
coordinates:

gridtype = lonlat
gridsize = 89280
xname = longitude
xlongname = Longitude
xunits = degrees_east
yname = latitude
ylongname = Latitude
yunits = degrees_north
xsize = 360
ysize = 248
xfirst = -38
xinc = 0.25
yfirst = 10
yinc = 0.25

and then use:

cdo remapbil,griddes.txt Europa.nc Europa_remap.nc

which leads to the following error:

cdo remapbil (Abort): Unsupported grid type: generic

Can somebody please help me with the interpolation from my curvilinear
to my desired lon-lat-grid?

Thank you very much
Kind regards
Frosi

Europa.nc (892 KB) Europa.nc Almost no variability, please don't be confused!
global_grid.txt (292 Bytes) global_grid.txt

RE: Combine regional files to get one global file - Added by kunal bali over 5 years ago

Try This,

you may use NCL and cdo both here

First run the NCL script

load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl" 
load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_csm.ncl" 
load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/contributed.ncl" 
load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/esmf/ESMF_regridding.ncl" 
;
OutFileName = "scrip_grid.nc" 
;
f     = addfile ("Europa.nc", "r")
lat2d = f->lat                        
lon2d = f->lon                        
; 
Opt                      = True
Opt@InterpMethod         = "bilinear"     ; default
Opt@ForceOverwrite       = True
Opt@PrintTimings         = True
;
curvilinear_to_SCRIP(OutFileName,lat2d,lon2d,Opt)

then

cdo -f nc -setgrid,scrip_grid.nc Europa.nc new_out.nc

then

cdo remapbil new_out.nc test.nc

then check grids

cdo griddes test.nc

RE: Combine regional files to get one global file - Added by Frosi Ma over 5 years ago

Great, thank you so much! It worked! :-)

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