John:

Got your mail yesterday re Ray's timesgcm run. He has run the
model out for 15 days to get a steady state. He saved histories
every 6 hours for the first 4 days, then every 12 hours through
the 15th day. The only history of interest to us now is the
one he gave you, i.e., model time 15.0.0 (day 15, hour 0, minute 0).
This history is one of two histories on the ncar mss file 
/ROBLE/RGR93/TSWIS10. We call these files history volumes -- they
usually have multiple histories (TSWIS10 has 14.12.0 and 15.0.0).
This is all with geomagnetic quiet conditions around equinox.

A history contains model output on the global grid for all the
fields saved at a specific time (day,hr,min). The geographic grid is
latitude -87.5 to 87.5 (every 5 degrees), longitude -180 to +180
(every 5 degrees), and log pressure -17 to 5 (every 0.5). This
results in 73 longitudes, 36 latitudes, and 45 pressure levels
in the vertical. Since height is one of the model fields, we can
always interpolate fields to constant height surfaces at any
geographic grid point.

Ray suggested I make some plots for you to look at using the
post-model processors I have written. They just read the history
(15.0.0) from the volume and makes various 2-d contour maps and
slices. This way we can get a feeling for where the model is
re tn, o1, and co2. If it looks ok, we can go ahead and run the
model for a day or two saving histories every hour (49 histories).
Then I could write code to interpolate the model results in space
and time to follow your orbit data.

I have some plots from 15.0.0 to show you, but you will need to
tell me what format you need. How do you look at graphics on your
system? If you happen to have ncar graphics we're in fat city,
but I suspect you don't. Can you look at hdf files? Sun raster
files? cgm files?

Also, my post-model processors can write ascii data files, which
you could then read on your system, and rewrite in your favorite
binary form, or make your own plots, etc. ftp would probably be
the best way to transfer this stuff.

--Ben