John:

Well, I'm back from the fire drill. I tried calling you but no answer,
so am sending this FYI. The first thing we need to do is set up your
scd account properly. A few weeks ago I requested an scd account for
you, so it is ready and waiting. I will give you the password on the
phone; the first time you log in it will request a new password. Then
I will help you set up .rhosts files so you can rcp between scd and
other internet machines, e.g., hao machines. It would be helpful if 
you could be sitting at a unix machine (maybe logged into your hao
accout) while we're on the phone.

Next I can give you codes to start working with. As I mentioned yesterday, 
there are post-model processors that run on the crays, and separate
post-model codes that use IDL on unix machines. We can talk about the
differences, but you will probably want the use the former, at least
to start. The latest of these, which I've been working on this summer,
includes your CO2 15u, and NO 53u emissions, as well as Sam's OH
vibrational states, all calculated from time-gcm history fields.

There are also "concurrent-model" processors, that execute
the model for a single time step, saving and then plotting fields 
calculated in the model but not saved on the histories (and therefore
not available to the standard post-model processors). 

I have located the code I used last year to interpolate time-gcm along
the shuttle orbit trac for comparison with the ephemeral data you and
Bruce Sullivan (?) sent. This is a more specialized code that runs on
the crays. ONce you're comfortable with the scd machines and the post-
model processors, you can use this code to obtain ascii data files like 
the ones I sent you last year. I guess these are in turn used in the 
sharc code (?). 

So please call, and we can discuss this further.

--Ben
  
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Ben Foster		      	High Altitude Observatory (HAO)
foster@ncar.ucar.edu		phone: 303-497-1595  fax: 303-497-1589  
Nat. Center for Atmos. Res.     P.O. Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307 USA
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