The page show results from downscaling: When downscaling (mapping from a high resolution grid (ne120pg2) to a much lower low resolution grid (ne3pg2)We use the TempestRemap Y16) the main issue is what the mapping procedure does to the features with length scales that can not be resolved on the low resolution grid. With interpolation based algorithms, high frequency modes often alias onto lower frequency modes. With cell integrated type algorithms, high frequencies are averaged over the target cell, mapping to their mean value and removing variance.
The page show results from an extreme case: mapping a high frequency mode (TempestRemap’s T16_32 spherical harmonic based test function:When plotted on the original ne120pg2 grid, the ) from ne120pg2 (~40km) to ne3pg2 (~1600km). The Y16_32 function can be see to have has 16 oscillations in the mid-latitudelatitudes which are well represented on the ne120pg2 grid. On the ne3pg2 grid, we have approximately 24 cells along 45N or 45S, and thus this grid is far too coarse to capture the Y16_32 oscillations.
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