> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 10:24:50 -0600 (CST)
> From: "Eric M. Kemp" <ekemp AT rossby.metr.ou.edu>
> To: <ncl-talk AT UCAR.EDU>
> Subject: NCL code for station model plots?
>
> I would like to use NCL to overlay observations on cross-sections of
> model data. I know that NCAR Graphics has a subroutine call (WMSTNM) to
> plot different elements of a station model, but it is not clear to me if
> that call is accessible from NCL. Is is possible to use this routine in
> NCL, or are there any NCL library calls that emulate WMSTNM? If
> worst comes to worst, I can use the NCL WMBARB call to plot the wind barb
> and then plot temperature, dew point, etc. separately, but I'd still like
> to plot cloud cover and current weather. Plots of icing and turbulence
> severity would be an added bonus.
Eric,
I do not know if WMSTNM can be called from NCL or not. I'm currently using
my own NCL code to plot station model type data on my constant-pressure
upper-air charts (850 thru 200 mb). I use the older NCARG FORTRAN-based
stuff for the METAR plots. I'm too lazy to re-program in NCL since the
FORTRAN way is working quite well. As for Icing/Turbulence PIREP plots
you see on the ADDS website (adds.aviationweather.noaa.gov), these used
to be the old FORTRAN interface but, this summer, my coworker, Deirdre Garvey,
wrote code to do this in NCL. It is done with the normal calls to plot
strings. We can provide this code to anyone who may desire it.
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