1. summary: Surface mobilization factors for prognostic dust aerosol in CAM.

2. created by: Dani Bundy Coleman, bundy@ucar.edu

3. date & time: 1 Sep 2006

4. platform: sabaki.cgd.ucar.edu (linux)

5. dataset format: NetCDF

6. endian: N/A

7. archival copy location: NCAR Mass Store /BUNDY/data/dst

8. creation details

a) Charlie Zender created the original files

Example history for 1.9x2.5 file
 :cmd_ln = "bds --bsn_fct_hrz=F --flg_cst_tpr=T --flg_rgn_xcl=T --bkf_itr_nbr=1 -x 144 -y 96 -m 33 -t 19801980 -o /data/zender/data/dst_1.9x2.5.nc" ;

"Tue Aug 22 11:39:12 2006: ncks -O -v
 area,bsn_enm,bsn_sz,lat_grd,lon_grd,lat,lat_fv,lon,lon_sz,lat_sz,oro,
lnd_frc,lnd_msk,rdb_fct_gmr,rdb_fct_unity,rdb_fct_tpg,rdb_fct_hyd,
rdb_fct_rfl_mds_lnr,rdb_fct_rfl_mds_sqr,slat,slon
/data/zender/data/dst_1.9x2.5.nc /data/zender/data/dst_1.9x2.5.nc\n", 

"Tue Aug 22 11:39:11 2006: ncap -O -s
rdb_fct_unity=0.0*mbl_bsn_fct+0.1614 -s rdb_fct_tpg=mbl_bsn_fct -s
rdb_fct_gmr=5.707*sfc_acm_fct -s rdb_fct_hyd=22.429*flw_acm_fct -s
rdb_fct_rfl_mds_lnr=rfl_sfc_lnd_nrm_mds_lnr -s
rdb_fct_rfl_mds_sqr=rfl_sfc_lnd_nrm_mds_sqr
/data/zender/data/dst_1.9x2.5.nc /data/zender/data/dst_1.9x2.5.nc" ; 
}

I downloaded them from 
http://dust.ess.uci.edu/dead/data


b)  I take out just the variable we need and rename it as expected in CAM

Charlie: I changed the name to rdb_fct_gmr ("geomorphic").

ncks -v rdb_fct_gmr from_charlie/$file $file
ncrename -v rdb_fct_gmr,mbl_bsn_fct_geo $file