Re: cape and max_dbz problem

Goran,

I think you may have some code that was never released. The
"rip_reflectivity" function doesn't exist, but there's one called
"wrf_dbz" that will be released in the next version.

Also, I'm not sure what "max_dbz" is, as this is not in our version of
wrf_user_getvar in WRFUserARW.ncl. I'm CC'ing wrfhelp_at_ucar.edu in case
they know what "max_dbz" is supposed to be.

We are getting ready to release a new set of wrf functions, including
wrf_cape_2d, wrf_cape_3d, wrf_dbz, among others. This will be in
V5.0.1 of NCL.

--Mary

On Nov 25, 2008, at 3:21 AM, Goran Gasparac wrote:

> Dear users,
>
> I'm trying to plot max_dbz from wrfout file, but i'm getting this
> kind of error:
>
> fatal:Either file (nc_file) isn't defined or variable (mcape) is not
> a variable in the file
> fatal:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 596 in file ./
> WRFUserARW.ncl
> fatal:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 54 in file wrf_RADAR.ncl
>
> wrf_RADAR.ncl - is script in which are defined all necessary
> variables:
> dbz = wrf_user_getvar(a,"max_dbz",it)
> pres = wrf_user_getvar(a,"pressure",it)
> tk = wrf_user_getvar(a,"tk",it)
> qv = wrf_user_getvar(a,"QVAPOR",it)
> qr = wrf_user_getvar(a,"QRAIN",it)
> qs = wrf_user_getvar(a,"QSNOW",it)
> qg = qs
> qg = 0.0 ; set to 0.0 [array operation]
> mdbz = rip_reflectivity(dbz, pres, tk, qv, qr, qs, qg, False)
>
> When i'm trying to plot something else, e.g. temperature,
> pressure...everything is OK, so i suppose that problem is not in
> defining input nc_file..
>
> Same thing is happening when i try to plot CAPE (mcape)..
>
> Thanks,
> Best Regards,
>
> Goran
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Received on Tue Nov 25 2008 - 08:57:49 MST