[gradsusr] Time Stamp

[Andrew Revering]

I appreciate the help everyone is giving me. I have more issues though.

 

Ok, I use the code and it displays the time. but every file says 22z on the
30th. I have no idea where that time is coming from, and why each forecast
hour shows the same time. The model ran at 06z and finished around 14z.

 

Let me give some background. I'm running my own WRF, and I have 21 forecast
hours that I'm creating graphics from.

I want to get either the model run (06z) or the valid time for that forecast
hour. Is that not in the data file? What is q time actually giving me,
because 22z on every file is not making sense to me.

 

Thanks in advance,

Andy

 

 

From: gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org [mailto:gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org]
On Behalf Of Amit Misra
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 11:57 PM
To: GrADS Users Forum
Subject: Re: [gradsusr] Time Stamp

 

Dear Andrew,

 

  I have used the segment suggested by Ming Ying in verbatim, and it does
work. Yes, I have embedded it in my script.

 

  'q time'
    timestr=subwrd(result, 3)
   'draw string 7 7 'timestr

 

The message regarding time being not a valid variable is sorted once you set
it the usual way. eg:

 

set t 1

etc before the above segment.

 

 

All the best, and thanks to Ming.

 

Amit Misra

Indian Institute of Technology

Kanpur

India

 

 

 

 

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On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Andrew Revering <andy at f5data.com> wrote:

I appreciate the help with doing this... but I can't get it to work.
I'm trying to do this through scripts and perhaps my syntax is wrong, I
dunno.

If I do it manually and do a q time I see a time displayed, but when I do it
through scripting it says time is not a valid variable.

Does anyone have a snippet of code directly from a script that pulls the
models time out of it?



-----Original Message-----
From: gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org [mailto:gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org]
On Behalf Of MY
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2010 1:49 AM
To: GrADS Users Forum
Subject: Re: [gradsusr] Time Stamp

Hi, Andrew,

You'd better draw them by "draw string". The time information can be
obtained by
--------
'q time'      ;*  returns:  Time = 00z01jul2010 to 00z01jul2010 Thu to Thu
timstr=subwrd(result, 3)
--------

you can then draw the string by
--------
'draw string 'x' 'y' 'timestr
--------
where the x and y are the location in virtual page. Please note there
is a blank between the quotation marks.

Good luck!

MY

2010/7/10 Andrew Revering <andy at f5data.com>:
> This may be a stupid question. but I can't seem to figure out how to put
the
> actual model run time stamp on the Grads image.
>
> I know you can do the time that the image was made, but how do I pull
either
> the valid time of the forecast, and/or the model run (initialization) time
> and plot it on the image?
>
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> Andrew Revering
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