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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma"><a><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">Nena</font></a></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">run 'grads -l' </font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">open wrf.ctl<a></a></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">set gxout<a></a> shaed<a></a></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">set csmooth<a></a> on</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">d slvl.1<a></a></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">and you will see the background color as shown in the example</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr">set lon<a></a> -43.75 -43.1</div>
<div dir="ltr">set lat -23.1 -22.7</div>
<div dir="ltr">d slvl.1<a></a></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">and it zooms into the area where the data points can be plotted</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">John Huddleston, PhD</font></div>
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<font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org [gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org] On Behalf Of Nena Carina Espaņola [nena@asti.dost.gov.ph]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 21, 2010 12:24 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> GrADS Users Forum<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [gradsusr] Gridding and Plotting Station Data<br>
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<div>Hi Guys,<br>
<br>
First of all, I'm not a meteorologist so pardon me if my questions here might sound silly to you. :-)<br>
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I need help with <a href="http://cookbooks.opengrads.org/index.php?title=Recipe-013:_Gridding_and_Plotting_Station_Data" target="_blank">
Recipe-013: Gridding and Plotting Station Data</a>. 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.<br>
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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. :-)<br>
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Thanks and regards,<br>
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Nena<br>
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