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

Jeff Duda jeffduda319 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 25 16:12:52 EDT 2014


I suggest you convert the specific longitude values in your control file
that are in the western hemisphere to negative values (negative longitude
implies it's in degrees west).  Then a command in grads like "set lon -44
30" should work.  The error with your (1) is to be expected - Grads does
not want to see the first number greater (i.e., to the right on the real
number line) than the first number, even if it represents a legitimate
west-to-east longitude band.

To avoid the seg fault, try running this line-by-line (i.e., by typing the
commands by hand at the Grads command prompt instead of running a script).
It seems likely that some other line of your script (not related to the
current problem) is causing the seg fault.

Jeff


On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Jonathan Wynn Smith <jwsmith9 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Alan:
> Thanks for your response.
>
> When I use:
>
> set LON -320 25
>
> The attached figure is the case.
>
> Jonathan
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Alan Robock <robock at envsci.rutgers.edu>
> wrote:
>
>>  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>
>> 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> 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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>>>> jonathan.smith at noaa.gov
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