LMDZ surface fluxes LMDZ/sflx

LMDZ surface fluxes LMDZ/sflx#

Description#

Reads/writes LMDZ surface fluxes stored as a flat vectorized NetCDF grid.

The vector convention flattens the regular lat/lon grid zonally, with the North and South poles each represented by a single cell (averaged zonally on write, replicated zonally on read); a wrap-around longitude value at the date line is dropped on write and re-added on read. At fetch time, the tracer’s domain is rebuilt as a single-level (surface) variant of the model’s own domain.

YAML arguments#

The following arguments are used to configure the plugin. pyCIF will return an exception at the initialization if mandatory arguments are not specified, or if any argument does not fit accepted values or type:

Optional arguments#

dir : str, optional, default “”

Path to the corresponding component. This value is used if not provided in parameters

file : str, optional, default “”

File format in the given directory. This value is used if not provided in parameters

varname : str, optional, default “”

Variable name to use to read data filesinstead of the parameter name if different to the parameter name

file_freq : str, optional, default “1YS”

File frequency of sflx files

split_freq : str, optional

Re-bucket this tracer’s fetched dates/files onto a fixed pandas-frequency grid (e.g. '1D', '1MS', '1YS'), independently of the native frequency the files were found at (file_freq). This fixes the sub-simulation boundaries that fromcontrol inherits for this tracer. For minimal memory usage, match it to the consuming model’s own periodicity: a finer value costs an extra time_interpolation bridge for no memory benefit, while a coarser value keeps the tracer’s data resident in memory across every one of the model’s sub-simulations it spans. See the ‘Splitting the temporal grid’ section on the observation operator page for the full mechanism and worked examples.

Requirements#

The current plugin requires the present plugins to run properly:

Requirement name

Requirement type

Explicit definition

Any valid

Default name

Default version

domain

Domain

False

False

LMDZ

std

YAML template#

Please find below a template for a YAML configuration:

 1flux:
 2  plugin:
 3    name: LMDZ
 4    version: sflx
 5    type: flux
 6
 7  # Optional arguments
 8  dir: XXXXX  # str
 9  file: XXXXX  # str
10  varname: XXXXX  # str
11  file_freq: XXXXX  # str
12  split_freq: XXXXX  # str

See also

API reference (functions & code)