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Douglas Lowe edited this page May 10, 2018 · 5 revisions

anthro_emiss

This tool creates WRF gridded anthropogenic emission files from lat-lon gridded netcdf input files. It is available for download here: https://www2.acom.ucar.edu/wrf-chem/wrf-chem-tools-community. It is maintained by Stacy Walters (stacy at ucar . edu) and Gabriele Pfister (pfister at ucar . edu).

The anthro_emiss tool is designed for processing emission datasets which cover a timeseries (the netcdf data files will contain a "time" dimension). The EDGAR data files provided are for single instances in time (without a "time" dimension) - to enable the use of anthro_emiss with these files the checks for time periods within the code have to be disabled. A modified copy of the source file is provided to do this: https://github.com/douglowe/PROMOTE-emissions/blob/master/anthro_emiss_scripts/anthro_emiss_alternative_source_files/data_file_utils.f90. Replace the data_file_utils.f90 file provided with anthro_emiss with this file, recompile the tool, and it should be able to process the EDGAR datafiles (and any other data file which is missing the "time" dimension).

NCL

NCAR Command Language - this interpretive language is used for many of the processing scripts in this repository. It is available for download here: https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/

These scripts have been tested with NCL versions 6.3.0 and 6.4.0.

NCO

netCDF Operator toolkit - these are used for direct netCDF file manipulation. The toolkit is available for download here: http://nco.sourceforge.net/

These scripts have been tested with NCO version 4.5.0.