this question came to me recently. I told jim about
NCL and the new 2d plotting capability.
1) is there anything about his data that will not work
with the new capabilities?
2) when will the new version of NCL be released that contains this?
sylvia
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Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 17:45:17 -0500
From: Jim Hawkins <jhawkins AT psislidell.com>
To: murphys AT ucar.edu
Subject: ncar graphics question
Dear Dr. Murphy,
Monty Peffley told me you might be able to help me. I have been working
with Alex Warn-Varnas at NRL running ocean models and have recently
began investigating the use of NCAR graphics to plot the results. I
spent a fair amount of time going through the CONPACK documentation and
found it reasonably easy to use for the examples given.
My problem is our data is not rectangular. The data sets are
temperature, salinity, etc versus depth generated periodically
throughout a simulation. Typically we might use matlab or idl to contour
the data for example 'contour, X,Y,D' where X,Y, and D are all MxN
arrays, X contains the cartesian ranges at each grid point, Y the
cartesian depths at each grid point, and D the data at each grid point.
The ranges are evenly spaced (say 0, 100km in 50m intervals) but the
depth array follows the bathymetry, so over a shelf the depth might vary
from 0 to 100m in 10m increments but off the shelf the depth might vary
from 0 to 500m in 50m increments. I thought that the NCAR example
'ccpsps2' might work; it assumes addresses irregularly spaced data over
a regular rectangle of X and Y values.
If you head us in a direction which would solve our problem that would
help us immensely. In any case, thanks for you time. Monte seems a
little envious of you living in Boulder!
-- Jim Hawkins 115 Christian Lane Slidell, LA, 70458 ph: (985) 639-3521 email: jhawkins AT psislidell.com_______________________________________________ ncl-talk mailing list ncl-talk AT ucar.edu http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-talk
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