[ecco-support] About the ecco Version 5 Alpha heat budget

[HONG ZHANG]

On 2/25/18 11:51 PM, Qihua Peng wrote:
> Dear ECCO team members,
> I found there is a new data set in your website: ECCO Version 5 
> Alpha.  I'd like to use these new data set to do heat budget. But I 
> can't find any detail about the LLC 270 grid (and I can't use the 
> former gcmfaces toolbox to load this new LLC 270 grid ) and there is 
> no nctiles_monthly_snapshots file as well(so I can't do the heat 
> budget at the moment). So I'd like to ask if anyone can help me with 
> these 2 problems.
> By the way, can I reproduce this new ECCO verion by myself just as 
> ECCO V4r3? If I could , where can I download the model set file?
> Thanks for your helping me all the time.
> Best,
> Qihua
Hi Qihua,
1) LLC270 grid is here
> ftp://ecco.jpl.nasa.gov/Version5/Alpha/nctiles_grid/
along with other fields.
2) nctiles_monthly_snapshots/ is being processed now.
will let you know when it's ready.
3) for now you have to use nasa pleiades to re-run:
> http://wwwcvs.mitgcm.org/viewvc/MITgcm/MITgcm_contrib/ecco_darwin/v4_llc270/readme.txt?revision=1.1&view=markup&sortby=date
we're preparing a generic re-run setup.
cheers
Hong