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Hi John. Thanks for the reply.<br>
<br>
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? <span
class="moz-smiley-s1"><span> :-) </span></span><br>
<br>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span
style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;"></span></span>.
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. <br>
<br>
Thanks and BR,<br>
<br>
Nena<br>
<br>
<br>
On Tuesday, 21 September, 2010 07:40 PM, Huddleston, John wrote:
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">run 'grads -l' </font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">open wrf.ctl</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">set gxout shaed</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">set csmooth on</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">d slvl.1</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">and you will see the
background color as shown in the example</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr">set lon -43.75 -43.1</div>
<div dir="ltr">set lat -23.1 -22.7</div>
<div dir="ltr">d slvl.1</div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">and it zooms into the
area where the data points can be plotted</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">John Huddleston, PhD</font></div>
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<hr tabindex="-1"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><b>From:</b>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org">gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org</a> [<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org">gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org</a>] On Behalf
Of Nena Carina Española [<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nena@asti.dost.gov.ph">nena@asti.dost.gov.ph</a>]<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>
<br>
I need help with <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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>
<br>
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>
<br>
Thanks and regards,<br>
<br>
Nena<br>
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