Simulation Files
The QuickView family of tools has been developed using history output on the physics grids (pg2 grids) of the E3SM Atmosphere Model, EAM, generated using EAMv2, v3, and intermediate versions towards v4 (EAMxx). Some sample output files can be found on Zenodo.
The horizontal dimension
Starting from version 2, QuickView has been generalized to handle all NetCDF variables on pg2 cubed-sphere meshes regardless of what name is used for the horizontal dimension (e.g., ncol in EAM files and lndgrid in ELM files).
Furthermore, QuickView2 has been generalized to visualize all variables in a NetCDF file that have a horizontal dimension matching the connecitivity file, regardless of how many additional dimensions the variables have.
Global averages
If an area variable with the correct horizontal dimension is present in the simulation file, this variable is used for calculating the area-weighted horizontal averages displayed in the viewport. If the area variable is not present, then an arithmetic average is calculated and displayed.
Missing values
If a variable has an attribute named missing_value or _FillValue, the value is converted to NaN and ignored in the calculation of global averages and for the visualization.