Re: Output for Google Earth

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All:

I too have done this but for a webpage that uses GrADS though it doesn't
matter too much which plotting tool in this context. I crop the plot
and use those cropping parameters to automatically generate the image. I
produce a global plot which makes it easier to crop. If you produce CE
plots, you probably can automate the cropping parameters as they would
be linearly related to the lat/lon.

see

http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/Composites/printpage.kml.pl

(there is some debugging output). You can get a kml and kmz file to
download. The resolution should be increased and I will get around to
that someday :)

Ask if you have any questions.

Cathy Smith

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NOAA/ESRL PSD and CIRES CDC
303-497-6263
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Don Morton wrote:
> I "might" be the person you're referring to who brought this up
> last summer. We had a student working on this. I don't
> have the details in front of me, but he essentially post-processed
> his NCL graphic by "cropping" it to remove all the unnecessary
> whitespace.
>
> Don
>
> On 3/7/08, David Brown <dbrown_at_ucar.edu> wrote:
>> Hi Walter,
>> I'm sorry that I can't tell you immediately the steps to follow to
>> accomplish your goal, but
>> I can tell you that there is a group here at NCAR that is currently
>> using output from NCL
>> in a Google Earth context. They have developed a procedure for
>> getting the output into the
>> correct format. I have just contacted them. The person who can give
>> the most direct response
>> is out until next Tuesday. I will followup to make sure you get
>> answer sometime next week.
>> -dave
>>
>>
>> On Mar 5, 2008, at 10:52 PM, Walter Sessions wrote:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I am trying to create a contour overlay for Google Earth on a
>> > Cylindrical Equidistant projection. The problem I'm running into is
>> > creating a plot that consists of only the data field (ie. no margins,
>> > labelbar whitespace). This is important because Google Earth wants to
>> > be able to treat the image edges as lat/lon coordinate borders.
>> >
>> > There's a posting similar to this from last August, however there
>> > don't
>> > appear to be any responses.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Walter
>> >
>> >
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