latitude bounds derivations
latitude ranges from midpoints
symbol description unit variable name \(\phi(i)\) latitude \(degN\) latitude {:,latitude} \(\phi^{B}(i,l)\) latitude boundaries (\(l \in \{1,2\}\)) \(degN\) latitude_bounds {:,latitude,2} The pattern : for the dimensions can represent {time}, or no dimension at all.
\begin{eqnarray} \phi^{B}(1,1) & = & 2\phi(1) - \phi(2) \\ \phi^{B}(i,1) & = & \frac{\phi(i-1) + \phi(i)}{2}, 1 < i \leq N \\ \phi^{B}(i,2) & = & \phi^{B}(i+1,1), 1 \leq i < N \\ \phi^{B}(N,2) & = & 2\phi(N) - \phi(N-1) \end{eqnarray}This formula applies if the harp option
regrid_out_of_bounds
is set tonan
or toextrapolate
. If the option is set toedge
then the first and last boundary value are set to the midpoints (\(\phi^{B}(1,1) = \phi(1)\), \(\phi^{B}(N,2) = \phi(N)\)).Note that all latitude values will always be clamped to the range \([-90,90]\).