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Expand Up @@ -258,6 +258,49 @@ Orography files - one for each tile - oro.CRES.tile#.nc (NetCDF). Contains thes
* sigma - slope of orography (unitless)
* elvmax - maximum height above mean (meters)

orog_gsl
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Introduction
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This program computes orographics statistics fields required for the orographic drag suite developed by NOAA's Global Systems Laboratory (GSL). The fields are a subset of the ones calculated by "orog" except that they are calculated in a different manner. The fields are:

* stddev - Standard deviation of subgrid topography
* convexity - Convexity of subgrid topography
* oa1 - Orographic asymmetry of subgrid topography - westerly
* oa2 - Orographic asymmetry of subgrid topography - southerly
* oa3 - Orographic asymmetry of subgrid topography - southwesterly
* oa4 - Orographic asymmetry of subgrid topography - northwesterly
* ol1 - Orographic effective length of subgrid topography - westerly
* ol2 - Orographic effective length of subgrid topography - southerly
* ol3 - Orographic effective length of subgrid topography - southwesterly
* ol4 - Orographic effective length of subgrid topography - northwesterly

Code structure
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Location of source code: ./sorc/orog_mask_tools.fd/orog_gsl.fd.

Program inputs and outputs
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The program reads the tile number (1-6 for global, 7 for stand-alone regional) and grid resolution (e.g., 768) from standard input.

**Input data:**

All in NetCDF.

* geo_em.d01.lat-lon.2.5m.HGT_M.nc - global topographic data on 2.5-minute lat-lon grid (interpolated from GMTED2010 30-second topographic data).
* HGT.Beljaars_filtered.lat-lon.30s_res.nc - global topographic data on 30-second lat-lon grid (GMTED2010 data smoothed according to Beljaars et al. (QJRMS, 2004))

**Output data:**

One for each tile. All in NetCDF.

* CRES_oro_data_ls.tile#.nc - Large-scale file for the gravity wave drag and blocking schemes of Kim and Doyle (QJRMS, 2005)
* CRES_oro_data.ss.tile#.nc - Small-scale file for the gravity wave dray scheme of Tsiringakis et al. (QJRMS, 2017) and the turbulent orographic from drag (TOFD) schemem of Beljaars et al. (QJRMS, 2004).

filter_topo
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