[RegCNET] Sigma levels

[Mohamad Ibrahim OMAR]

Dear Netsanet,
If I understand what you want, you want to convert your output from Sigma coordinate to pressure coordinate. Right?
so, there is in bin directory a file called sigma2p which is responsible for that purpose. the usage is as the following;
>path_to_your_bin_dir/sigma2p your_ATM_file_from_regcm.nc 
the prgram can do for only one file and you can make a script to do it for all files.
I hope this can help.
Regards


 
Mohamed Ibrahim El-Sayed OMAR
Egyptian Meteorological Authority
Scientific Research Department
Climate Studies Centre
Kobry El-Quobba, P.O.Box. 11784 
Cairo, EGYPT
Mobil phone  : 002 01060802805  
Home Phone : 002 0482370261



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Dear all

I did an experiment having 60 vertical levels using RegCM. I want to repeat the same experiment using WRF. But I couldn't get the vertical levels in sigma coordinate. In the grads descriptor file the vertical coordinate of the output(ZDEF) is given to be (zdef   60 levels     0.0   50.0   96.5  139.8  180.2  217.9  253.2  286.3  317.4  346.6  374.1  400.0  424.5  447.7  469.6  490.5  510.3  529.1  547.1  564.3  580.7  596.4  611.5  626.0  640.0  653.4  666.4  679.0  691.1  702.9  714.4  725.6  736.4  747.1  757.4  767.6  777.6  787.4  797.0  806.5  815.9  825.1  834.3  843.4  852.4  861.4  870.3  879.2  888.2  897.1  906.0  915.0  924.1  933.2  942.3  951.6  961.0  970.5  980.2  990.0). So I was wondering how could I change this to sigma coordinate(as surface pressure is not the same). I would appreciate if anyone can suggest me how to calculate the numbers in sigma coordinate.

regards,
Netsanet
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