<div dir="ltr">I've never used station data, ha. If you think it's based on that setup, I'll take a peak at playing with plotting that type of data. :)<div><br></div><div>I do have one last quick question that just came up, if you don't mind. :-/ We've been using the GFS pgrb2.0p25 files for the longest time and I'm wondering, are those the highest-resolution model data (for the GFS in this context) available? I recently came across these sflux files, which are possibly the highest resolution available?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Stephen McMillan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:smcmillan@planalytics.com" target="_blank">smcmillan@planalytics.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I'm not able to view the first for whatever reason, but the one from second link does not appear to be from gxout grid. Rather, it looks like it was done using the method ('draw string...') mentioned in my first response. I would say they were based on station data, possibly used as the basis for the shaded contours, giving it a more irregular appearance. <div><br></div><div>Bottom line...which do you want? Regularly-spaced values based on a grid, or irregular values based on station locations? It can be done either way.<div><br></div><div>Stephen Mc</div></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Christopher Gilroy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris.gilroy@gmail.com" target="_blank">chris.gilroy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I hear you, I've done that too. Can you take a peak at either of the images I linked to? With your knowledge of grads, would you say they are plotting those snowfall numbers using gxout grid? It just seems so different than what a gridded plot does, even with skipping.</div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Stephen McMillan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:smcmillan@planalytics.com" target="_blank">smcmillan@planalytics.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Yes, Chris, what you said makes sense. If all you want to do is thin out the number displays from a grid, then use "skip" (and maskout too if you want to not plot the values over some area such as over water). For example:<div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px">'d skip(maskout(t2m,landsfc-0.5),2)'</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">displays every other grid value in both x- and y-direction over land areas only, where "t2m" was my temperature variable.</div><span><font color="#888888"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Stephen</div></font></span></div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Christopher Gilroy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris.gilroy@gmail.com" target="_blank">chris.gilroy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I do want it to draw snowfall amounts, but like in the two images, not "griddy". If you look at, <a href="http://blog.chron.com/weather/wp-content/blogs.dir/2579/files/2014/01/gfs_6hr_snow_acc_se_19.png" target="_blank">http://blog.chron.com/weather/wp-content/blogs.dir/2579/files/2014/01/gfs_6hr_snow_acc_se_19.png</a> that doesn't appear to be drawing those numbers based on a grid at all. They are all scattered about on the map with no real "grid" structure to them. The only way I know how to "control" the frequency (perhaps "stepping" might be a better word?) of the drawing of values would really be to maskout coupled with re-gridding so it doesn't put a number on every possible area that weasdsfc has a value for is. If that makes sense?<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Stephen McMillan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:smcmillan@planalytics.com" target="_blank">smcmillan@planalytics.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello Chris,<div><br></div><div>If you don't want to display all the grid values, then you can use 'draw string...' using the coordinates of whatever stations or locations you want displayed on top of the shaded contours. See <a href="http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradcomddrawstring.html" target="_blank">http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradcomddrawstring.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Stephen McMillan</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Christopher Gilroy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris.gilroy@gmail.com" target="_blank">chris.gilroy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">I'm trying to plot something like this: </span><a href="http://i60.tinypic.com/2v9voe0.jpg" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">http://i60.tinypic.com/2v9voe0.jpg</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> (WXBell has the same basic setup, </span><a href="http://blog.chron.com/weather/wp-content/blogs.dir/2579/files/2014/01/gfs_6hr_snow_acc_se_19.png" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">http://blog.chron.com/weather/wp-content/blogs.dir/2579/files/2014/01/gfs_6hr_snow_acc_se_19.png</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">) with the inch's plotting on-top of the shaded area but the only way I know how to display "values" like that is with gxout grid, which then makes the numbers plot in grids (obviously) and unless I'm missing something with options I don't see a way to make it output as "loose" as theirs are, instead of literally in a "grid" (square box) format.</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">I'm currently simply doing:</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div>'set gxout grid'</div><div>'set gridln off'</div><div>'set dignum 1'</div><div>'set digsiz 0.05'<br></div><div>'d re(maskout(weasdsfc, weasdsfc-3), 0.25)'<br></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Which, you can image it will output tons of numbers all over, making it completely illegible. Any clue on how to do something like the above two images?</div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div>-Chris A. Gilroy</div>
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