[gradsusr] Gridding and Plotting Station Data

[Nena Carina Española]

Hi John. Thanks for the reply.

The recipe was derived from the operational procedure of Brazil and we 
wanted to adopt a similar procedure for the Philippines. I am from the 
IT sector so I'm really new to all of these. What I actually wanted to 
ask about is the numerical model data itself. I don't have that. I only 
have observed data from AWS network. Can I actually use the wrf.dat that 
came with the recipe or do I have to create my own from WRF? :-)

What our team wants is to be able to visualize the hourly data we have 
for temperature, humidity, pressure, wind speed, wind direction, solar 
radiation, and hourly rain. But our priority is pressure, wind speed, 
and wind direction. If you know of other techniques/recipes that I could 
follow please let me know.

Thanks and BR,

Nena


On Tuesday, 21 September, 2010 07:40 PM, Huddleston, John wrote:
> Nena
> run 'grads -l'
> open wrf.ctl
> set gxout shaed
> set csmooth on
> d slvl.1
> and you will see the background color as shown in the example
> set lon -43.75 -43.1
> set lat -23.1 -22.7
> d slvl.1
> and it zooms into the area where the data points can be plotted
> John Huddleston, PhD
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org [gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org] 
> On Behalf Of Nena Carina Española [nena at asti.dost.gov.ph]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 21, 2010 12:24 AM
> *To:* GrADS Users Forum
> *Subject:* [gradsusr] Gridding and Plotting Station Data
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> First of all, I'm not a meteorologist so pardon me if my questions 
> here might sound silly to you. :-)
>
> I need help with Recipe-013: Gridding and Plotting Station Data 
> <http://cookbooks.opengrads.org/index.php?title=Recipe-013:_Gridding_and_Plotting_Station_Data>. 
> What I need to do is to be able to plot contour maps from hourly AWS 
> data, just like what was done in Recipe-013. However, I won't be 
> plotting just precipitation. I'll just start out with pressure. Later 
> on if I already know the ins and outs of this recipe, I'll be creating 
> plots for other variables such as temperature, wind speed, and wind 
> direction.
>
> We have a team in charge of parsing the information from AWS and could 
> feed me data that's already been formatted to what Recipe-013 
> requires. Following the recipe, I was able to create a control file 
> and binary that GrADS could read. What I don't understand is the 
> wrf.dat and wrf.ctl that the recipe is using. The recipe says it 
> "contains any forecasted variable and, most important, the information 
> of the grid we want the station data to be gridded to." Can someone 
> explain this further to me? I was only asked to plot actual data, no 
> forecasting or whatsoever. :-)
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> Nena
>
>
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