[gradsusr] GrADS not plotting WRF output west of Prime Meridian

[Alan Robock]

Dear Jonathan,

Try:

Set lon -170 190  [or whatever you want the domain to be. Negative 
values of lon are fine before the display command.]

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On 7/25/2014 3:41 PM, Jonathan Wynn Smith wrote:
> Jeff Duda:
>
> Thanks for your response.
>
> So I tried 3 things:
>
> 1)
> set LON 320 25
> and got the following error and the same plot from the previous email 
> appeared:
> Operation error:  Invalid dimension environment
>   Min longitude > max longitude: 320 25
> DRAW error: Syntax is DRAW STRING x y string
>
> 2) set LON 0 360
> the entire area chosen for plotting was shaded.
> See attachment
> At the fourth iteration the code went to a segmentation fault.
> Because of the segmentation fault I was unable to execute the q dims 
> command afterwards
>
> However upon opening the test.ctl in a new grads section I got the 
> following:
> LON set to 315.172 29.8276
> LAT set to -22.1706 22.1706
> LEV set to 1 1
> Time values set: 2010:4:8:0 2010:4:8:0
> E set to 1 1
>
> What could be done to alleviate this isue?
>
> I know the model domain is correct. See the second attached figure 
> plotted for quick look with ncview.
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Jeff Duda <jeffduda319 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jeffduda319 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Jonathan,
>     I would try defining your longitude values as negative in the
>     western hemisphere to positive in the eastern hemisphere.
>
>     What happens if you try 'set lon 0 360' and displaying? Does it
>     extend to the other side of the world and plot your fields?  Check
>     'q dims' after plotting and see if it shows negative longitude values.
>
>     Jeff Duda
>
>
>     On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Jonathan Wynn Smith
>     <jwsmith9 at gmail.com <mailto:jwsmith9 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hello:
>         How do I get my WRF v3.5.1 model simulation to plot west of
>         the Prime
>         Meridian?  My domain is 44 W to 30 E and 22 S to 22 N.  I have
>         attached a figure that shows the iniability for grads plot
>         beyond 0 E.
>
>         This is the case for a couple versions of grads: 2.0.1 and 2.1.a2
>
>         I have also attached the script and ,ctl file that I am using
>         for this plot.
>
>         Jonathan
>
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