Re: Axis units in wrf_user_intrp3d()

From: Mary Haley <haley_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:48:46 -0600 (MDT)

Don,

The units that are appearing in the top right corner of your
plot come from the metadata that is attached to
the "z" array that you are plotting.

If you type "printVarSummary(z)" (or whatever the name of your
variable is), you will see what the units are.

Perhaps the "units" are not being reset after the calculation is done?
I'm not familiar enough with wrf_user_intrp3d to know if it resets the
units, but I'll include wrfhelp_at_ucar.edu on this one to see if they
can include more information.

--Mary

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Don Morton wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> First, I'd really like to thank you all for the great suite
> of routines for the WRF output files. These are turning
> out to be very useful.
>
> I've created a plot that shows a vertical cross section
> of the u-component of the wind over a defined transect
> (graphic attached). Just in case you're curious, the transect
> is roughly west-to-east, the west end being at Missoula
> International Airport and the east end being in Hellgate
> Canyon on the east side of Missoula, where Interstate
> 90 enters the city. I'm trying to assess WRF's capture
> of the famous easterly "Hellgate Winds" that we often
> get in the morning (sort of a "drainage flow" from the
> east), and you can see a hint of it in this graphic.
>
> But, on to the question - I don't understand what the units
> are on the vertical axis. I've passed in an array of "z" values
> to the function, and I've verified that the values I pass in
> are reasonable, with units of meter. I "suppose" the units
> could be km, and it looks like that would be an appropriate
> unit on the horiz axis, too (the distance is about right).
> But, I'm wondering if someone can verify.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Don
> --
> Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
> http://weather.arsc.edu/
>
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