On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Becker, Bernd <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bernd.becker@metoffice.gov.uk">bernd.becker@metoffice.gov.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Hello,<br>
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what have we available in Grads that can sort by size?<br>
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In recipe-020, box and whisker plot ranges are calculated by<br>
fraction of standard deviation.<br>
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Assume, one were to plot quantiles after ranking:<br>
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how would one achieve the ranking?<br>
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of a stack of 2-d fields?<br>
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This can be a compute intensive and time consuming affair.<br>
But it would certainly be nice to have.<br>
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(in metview, macro "distribution" does the trick)<br>
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many thanks for your suggestions.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>One option is to do this in python using the prctile() function. In situations like this I tend to use pygrads to extract the data and complete the calculation using numpy/scipy functions. Yes, it is something new to learn, but nothing like the right tool for the job at hand.</div>
<div><br></div><div> Arlindo</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br>Arlindo da Silva<br><a href="mailto:dasilva@alum.mit.edu">dasilva@alum.mit.edu</a><br>