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tri_trunC

Performs triangular truncation on spherical harmonic coefficients.

Prototype

	function tri_trunC (
		ab : numeric, 
		T : integer 
	)
	return_val [dimsizes(ab)] : float or double

Arguments

Spherical harmonic coefficients returned to user by the NCL functions shagC/shaeC. The first dimension must be 2, which addresses the real and imaginary parts.

Triangular truncation parameter. T is the constant number of total wave numbers to keep.

Return value

A double array is returned if the input is double; otherwise a float array is returned. The returned array will be of size dimsizes(ab).

Description

tri_trunC performs triangular truncation on coefficients returned by the Spherepack analysis routines shagC or shaeC.

See Also

tri_trunc, rhomb_trunC, rhomb_trunc, shagC, shsgC shaeC, shseC

Examples

Example 1

g(nlat,nlon)

 T = 42
 ab = shagC (g)
 ab = tri_trunC (ab,T)
 g = shsgC (ab,nlon)