[gradsusr] gradsusr Digest, Vol 8, Issue 28

Jofre Janué jjanue at hotmail.com
Tue Oct 19 06:47:57 EDT 2010


 Hi,

I am new and for this reason I d'ont know if you have talked about it, but 
any way, Does anybody knows how can we print an alpha chanal image file from 
GrADS?
Thanks.


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>   1. Bug related to 'set clab masked' ? (MY)
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>   3. Re: scale factor (krishnamohan)
>   4. Omega (Wendell Farias)
>   5. Dods Satellite imagery (Metris Limited Forecaster)
>   6. Re: Omega (Jeffrey Duda)
>   7. variable=environment (Andrew Revering)
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> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 09:40:08 +0800
> From: MY <funnytyphoon at gmail.com>
> Subject: [gradsusr] Bug related to 'set clab masked' ?
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> Dear all,
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> I encounter a problem: when the command 'set clab masked' is used, and
> one of the end of a line is located at the region where 'masked'
> labels are displayed, the line can't be displayed with "draw line"
> command.
>
> Is this a bug? I'm using the grads-2.0.a9.oga.1-win32_superpack.exe.
>
> Best wishes,
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> Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 19:33:14 -0700 (PDT)
> From: cellyn lee <cellyn_lee53 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [gradsusr] scale factor
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> Hi,
> ?
> Anybody know what is scale factor and offset in a netcdf file? and how to 
> determine when I want to write a netcdf file?
> Thanks.
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> From: krishnamohan <krishmet at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [gradsusr] scale factor
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> Hai Cellyn,
>
> *scale_factor* - If present for a variable, the data are to be multiplied 
> by
> this factor after the data are read by the application that accesses the
> data
>
> *add_offset* - If present for a variable, this number is to be added to 
> the
> data after it is read by the application that accesses the data. If both
> scale_factor and add_offset attributes are present, the data are first
> scaled before the offset is added. The attributes scale_factor and
> add_offset can be used together to provide simple data compression to 
> store
> low-resolution floating-point data as small integers in a netCDF file.
>
> see http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/noaa_coop/coop_cdf_profile.html for more
> details
>
> -- 
> Krishnamohan.K.S
> Junior Research Fellow
> Department Of Atmospheric Sciences
> Cochin University of Science and Technology
> Cochin,India
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:03 AM, cellyn lee <cellyn_lee53 at yahoo.com> 
> wrote:
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>>   Hi,
>>
>> Anybody know what is scale factor and offset in a netcdf file? and how to
>> determine when I want to write a netcdf file?
>> Thanks.
>>
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> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:12:04 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Wendell Farias <wendellrgf at yahoo.com.br>
> Subject: [gradsusr] Omega
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> Dear all,
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> I'm using the ARWpost and It don't calculate the vertical velocity Omega. 
> How
> can I calculate the Omega on Grads?
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> Thank you in advance,
> Wendell
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> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 07:26:41 +1300
> From: Metris Limited Forecaster <metris at clear.net.nz>
> Subject: [gradsusr] Dods Satellite imagery
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> Question I have  is there any DODS source or other of current satellite
> imagery ... and perhaps script snippets?
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>
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> Regards
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>
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> Howard Staines
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> Forecaster Metris Limited
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> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:30:21 -0500
> From: Jeffrey Duda <jdduda at iastate.edu>
> Subject: Re: [gradsusr] Omega
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> Wendell,
> I can think of two ways:
>
> 1) an approximation for omega is -rho*g*w, where rho is air density at
> whatever height, g = 9.8, and w is vertical velocity in z-wind vertical
> velocity
> 2) Omega can also be approximated by using the 'vint' function.  What you
> would do is vertically integrate divergence up to the level at which you
> want omega.  For example, if you want 700 mb omega, you'd do 'd vint(psfc,
> hdivg(u,v), 700)'.  Obviously make sure all of those expressions are in 
> the
> same units.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Jeff Duda
>
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Wendell Farias 
> <wendellrgf at yahoo.com.br>wrote:
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>> Dear all,
>>
>> I'm using the ARWpost and It don't calculate the vertical velocity Omega.
>> How can I calculate the Omega on Grads?
>>
>> Thank you in advance,
>> Wendell
>>
>>
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> -- 
> Jeff Duda
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> From: "Andrew Revering" <andy at f5data.com>
> Subject: [gradsusr] variable=environment
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> This is probably a simple problem, but I can't figure it out.
>
>
>
> I'm using the OpenGrads superpack, and my variable gx returns 
> "environment"
> instead of a value. Any ideas?
>
>
>
> 'q xy2gr 'sitelon+1' 'sitelat-1
>
> maxx = subwrd(result,3)
>
> gx = subwrd(result,3)
>
> gy = subwrd(result,6)
>
>
>
> say 'Max value is 'gx
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> says..   "Max  value is environment"
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