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Improved handling of SSTs from ERAi to better cover continental inland water temperatures #104

Closed gutmann closed 2 years ago

gutmann commented 2 years ago

TYPE: enhancement

KEYWORDS: erai2icar helper sst

SOURCE: Ethan Gutmann, NCAR

DESCRIPTION OF CHANGES: Now reads ERAi SST data and landfraction instead of tskin. Unmixes a null (273.16) value that seems to be inserted over land and mixed using landfraction. Then forward fills and backward fills all data with a water fraction less than 0.25 (unmixing doesn't seem very stable for higher values).

ISSUE: n/a

TESTS CONDUCTED: comparisons were made for erai2icar.py 1984-10-08 1984-10-09 60 15 -50 -141

NOTES: There are still some horizontal stripes over land, and discontinuities when changing from an ocean grid cell far away to an inland lake large enough to be present in ERAi (e.g. the Great Lakes)

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