Mercator projection is longitude equal-interval but not latitude equal-interval. The ctl without PDEF (Mercator is not supported in PDEF at present) may approximatively plot the data at low latitude area, but it's imposible plot the data at exactly position.<br>
<br>On Friday, July 12, 2013, itesh dash wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">The information actually were extracted from in the namelist.wps file using WRF2GrAGS which generate the control(ctl) file. For the model I only provided the grid resolution(9km), no of grid points in both north south (640) and east west(460) and center latitude and longitude (18.0 and 91.0). <div>
<br></div><div>The XDEF,YDEF and other params were automatically calculated by WRF2Grads. But your guessing may be correct as i have changed the start lat from -3.1006 to -2.1006 and the shift is minimized. BUt is this correct way?</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am currently using the mercator projection. I will change to lat-lon projection and see if that makes the difference. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks.<br><div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
</div><div><br><br><div>On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:40 AM, James T. Potemra <span dir="ltr"><<a>jimp@hawaii.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Itesh:<br>
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Your model output is 640 x 460, but your descriptor file has<br>
xdef = 639 and ydef = 459. These should be 640 and 460,<br>
respectively. Also, I think what Mohsen meant was to make<br>
sure your starting lat/lon is the same in the descriptor file<br>
and model grid, i.e., you have 61.1815 as the starting lon<br>
and -3.1006 as the starting lat. Are these the same as the<br>
model grid?<br>
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Jim<div><div><br>
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<div>On 7/11/13 7:31 AM, itesh dash wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear Mohsen,
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<div>thanks for the response. But I am not even trying
to use any script. Just by opening and plotting the ctl file.</div>
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<div>Here is my ctl file</div>
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<div>dset ^Jul1013_12.dat</div>
<div>undef 1.e35</div>
<div>xdef 639 linear 61.1815 0.0935</div>
<div>ydef 459 linear -3.1006 0.0873</div>
<div>zdef 3 levels</div>
<div> 850.00000</div>
<div> 500.00000</div>
<div> 200.00000</div>
<div>tdef 8 linear 12z10jul2013 6hr</div>
<div>vars 1</div>
<div>HGT 0 0 Terrain Height</div>
<div>endvars</div>
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<div>The wrf model ran with mercator projection 640 x
460 grid points 9 km resolution.</div>
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<div>I could not figure out why the shift is there.
Is there a way i can balance the shift.</div>
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<div>regards,</div>
<div>itesh</div>
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<div>On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:58 PM,
Mohsen Soltani <span dir="ltr"><<a>soltani.clima@gmail.com</a>></span>
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<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">itesh,</div>
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Make sure Lat/Lon in your .ctl file are the same as your
script!</div>
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