[gradsusr] Plotting a NEXRAD netCDF file

Sytske Kimball skimball at southalabama.edu
Fri Sep 20 16:19:53 EDT 2013


Andrew,

Thank you for your response - unfortunately it still doesn't look like the
radar image.....

Sytske


Sytske (seets-kah) Kimball
Professor of Meteorology
Director, South Alabama Mesonet
Dept. of Earth Sciences
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL
phone (251) 460-7031
fax       (251) 460-7886
email   skimball at southalabama.edu <skimball at usouthal.edu>
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On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Andrew Friedman <andfried at berkeley.edu>wrote:

> Hi Sytske,
>
> In your script you have 2 plot settings right after each other:
>
> 'set gxout grfill'
> 'set gxout shaded'
>
> I believe the second one overrides the first. Try commenting it out to see
> what the grfill plot looks like.
>
> Also, you could try changing the shaded plot setting to the
> higher-resoluttion algorithm:
> 'set gxout shade2b'
>
> Andrew
>
> On Sep 20, 2013, at 12:23 PM, Sytske Kimball <skimball at southalabama.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > Dear GrADS users,
> >
> > I (finally) managed to plot a NEXRAD radar reflectivity fil, in netCDF
> format, using GrADS. The plot is attached (IdaRadar-test.png) as is the
> original radar image for the same area, displayed using GRLevelII
> (RadarLevel2.png). I can't figure out why the resolution on the GrADS image
> is so much worse than on the original image. The script is also attached.
> >
> > Any help would be much appreciated.
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> > Sytske
> >
> > Sytske (seets-kah) Kimball
> > Professor of Meteorology
> > Director, South Alabama Mesonet
> > Dept. of Earth Sciences
> > University of South Alabama
> > Mobile, AL
> > phone (251) 460-7031
> > fax       (251) 460-7886
> > email   skimball at southalabama.edu
> > web:   http://chiliweb.southalabama.edu/
> > <RadarLevel2.png><IdaRadar-test.png><StationPlot+radar2.gs
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