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The Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) is a suite of software tools for developing high-performance, multi-component Earth science modeling applications.
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Add extrapDistField output to ESMF_FieldRegridStore() #71

Open oehmke opened 1 year ago

oehmke commented 1 year ago

The extrapDistField would contain the distance between a destination point and the source point that it was extrapolated from. One use for this information would be to gradually merge an extrapolated destination Field with background data (e.g. as the distance from the source increases proportionally increase the percentage of the background merged in). Similarly, other uses could involve changing data or calculations because an extrapolation is going further than wanted. Since this is useful for providing Field merge enabling information to users it could be part of that larger CRB Field Merging task.

anntsay commented 4 months ago

@oehmke to consider whether it can be pushed up to 8.7.x