extractlatlon_bicubintp

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Package: extractlatlon_bicubintp

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script to extract station timeseries

You have to download the relevant loading datasets and run the script on your local machine. The script needs the NCO library to read the netCDF files and the CDO library to performe fast bicubic interpolation from the 0.5° gridded values to the station location. If CDO operators are not available, only slow bilinear interpolation is possible. For large numbers of stations using CDO operators works much faster! Do not use CDO version 1.6.4 as it cannot handle unstructured grids (tested with CDO version 1.7.2).

ATTENTION:
You can use the -m option to avoid interpolation over the coastline as the deformation response might be completely different between ocean and land due to a high contrast in the mass load along the coastline (e.g. IB correction over the ocean). The appropriate land/ocean mask file is lwmask_AOD_0.5.nc. With option -m the script uses nearest-neighbour interpolation, if the station is located along the coastline to avoid bicubic interpolation over the coastline between ocean and land gridcells. For time series of total loading (NTAL+NTOL+HYDL) it is recommended to add the gridded NTAL, NTOL, and HYDL contributions in advance and extract the station time series afterwards, the -m option might become redundant.

USAGE:
to extract single station time series, result to standard output
> bash extractlatlon_bicubintp [-f 'infilename'] [-p] [-m maskfilename] latitude longitude [-v [time] variable1 [variable2 ...]] [-o outfilename]

arguments:	latitude	latitude of station [degree]
	longitude	longitude of station [degree]

to extract multi station time series, saved as single files for each station
>bash extractlatlon_bicubintp [-f 'infilename'] [-p] [-m maskfilename] -s stationlistname [-c columnorder] [-v [time] variable1 [variable2 ...]] [-o outfilename]

options:	-f 'infilename'	specify netCDF inputfiles, use wildcards for multiple files (put filename in single quotes) without -f all netCDF files in the local directory are used
	-p	keep and reuse temporary preprocessed files (separated files for each variable) -> faster
	-m	maskfilename land/ocean maskfile to prevent interpolation over the coastline (0=land/1=ocean)
	-s	stationlistname filename of station coordinate list (no header, 2 or 3 columns: [stationname/id] longitude latitude, UNIX format)
	-c	columnorder "latlon" or "lonlat", columnorder in stationlistname file (default=latlon) "xyz" for cartesian coordinates, coverted by WGS84 parameters
	-v	list of vars specify variables from netCDF files (default: time, duV, duN, duEW) use "time" as 1st variable to extract and write the time column information variable1, ... extract time series only for variable1, [variable2, ...]
	-o	outfilename specify file names for output (->outfilename.stationID.txt) default is >extractlatlon<.

EXAMPLES:
> extractlatlon_bicubintp -f 'ESMGFZ_HYDL_cf_v1.3_24h_*.nc' -3.023 -60.055

This will extract the variables duV, duEW, duNS from all hydrological loading files ESMGFZ_HYDL_cf_v2.0_24h_yyyy.nc at the location Manaus City (3.023°S, 60.055°W) and writes the time series into the default output file extractlatlon.duV, including the time information.

> extractlatlon_bicubintp -f ESMGFZ_HYDL_cf_v1.3_24h_2000.nc -3.023 -60.055 -v duV -o manaus

This will extract the variable duV for the year 2000 from ESMGFZ_HYDL_cf_v2.0_24h_2000.nc at the location Manaus City (3.1333°S, 60.0167°W) and writes the time series to then file manaus.txt

> extractlatlon_bicubintp -f 'ESMGFZ_HYDL_cf_v1.3_24h_*.nc' -s stationlist.txt -v time duV duEW duNS -o lsdmhydl

This will extract the variables duV, duEW, duNS including the time information, from all hydrological loading files ESMGFZ_HYDL_cf_v2.0_24h_yyyy.nc at the locations listed in the file stationlist.txt and writes the time series into single files named lsdmhydl.stationID.txt. The file stationlist.txt consist of 2 or 3 columns with station name or ID (optional), latitude,
longitude. If latitude and longitude are switched, use option -c lonlat.

> extractlatlon_bicubintp -f 'ESMGFZ_NTAL_CF_v1.0_03h_*.nc' -m lwmask_AOD_0.5.nc -s stationlist.txt -c xyz -v time duV duNS duEW -o NTALseries

this will extract the variables duV, duEW, duNS including the time information, from all atmospheric loading files ESMGFZ_NTAL_CF_v1.0_03h_yyyy.nc at the locations listed in the file stationlist.txt and writes the time series into single files named NTALseries.stationID.txt. The file stationlist.txt consist of 3 or 4 columns with station name or ID (optional), x-coordinate, y-coordinate, and z-coordinate (-c xyz). The -m option avoids interpolation over the coastline defined in land-water maskfile lwmask_AOD_0.5.nc (mask that was used for IB correction).

File:	extractlatlon_bicubintp 31 KB
Kind:	Software Tool
Software Use:	Analysis
Software Type:	Desktop
Science Domain:	Earth
Platform:	Unix
License:	Open Source
Development Status:	beta
Capabilities:	extract station time series from netCDF loading data files needs NCO and CDO