[gradsusr] Gridding and Plotting Station Data

[Yaqiang Wang]

You can use MeteoInfo software to visualize AWS observation data.
ASCII format data were also supported. The software could be
downloaded freely from the website http://www.esnips.com/web/MeteoInfo
. The documents on the website will help you to use it.

Yaqiang

2010/9/22 Nena Carina Española <nena at asti.dost.gov.ph>:
> 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. 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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