The land mask, posteriori filter, and distance to land fields are fixed, or at least slowly evolving. The current use of flat binary is not as transportable as if the fields were in netcdf. Also 'skip' -- grid points to skip in performing evaluations of skill in models.
There should be a number of these -- for each grid type in use:
latlon -- 5 arcmin, 30 arcmin
nps -- 25.4, 12.7, 6.35 km
sps -- 25.4, 12.7, 6.35 km
The land mask, posteriori filter, and distance to land fields are fixed, or at least slowly evolving. The current use of flat binary is not as transportable as if the fields were in netcdf. Also 'skip' -- grid points to skip in performing evaluations of skill in models.
There should be a number of these -- for each grid type in use: latlon -- 5 arcmin, 30 arcmin nps -- 25.4, 12.7, 6.35 km sps -- 25.4, 12.7, 6.35 km