Re: Dynamic height field

[James Orr <orr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

See the Ferret example script "dynamic_height.jnl".  On my machine it is
in the "/usr/local/ferret/go" directory that was installed with Ferret. 

-- Jim

On Thu, 4 May 2000, Halldor Bjornsson wrote:

> Does anyone have a script/demo that shows how to calculate the dynamic
> height field from T(x,y,z) and S(x,y,z) data (e.g. Levitus) ?
> 
> In principle this would involve:
> a)calculating the density, (trivial)
> b)the volume anomaly (also trivial)
> and
> c) making a grid with pressure as the vertical cordinate 
> and performing a double intergration of the volume anomaly
> from a specified pressure level (P("at level of no motion"))
> to the surface (P=0) in the pressure cordinate system.
> 
> The last part is not trivial....at least not for me...
> 
> Seems like the stuff that ferret was made for.....
> 
> 
> -- 
> -----------------------------------------------
> Halldor Bjornsson,
> Program in Atmosphere and Ocean Science &
> Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
> Princeton University, Princeton, NJ USA
> email: hnb@gfdl.gov
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>