Re: outputting latitudes and longitudes that NCL computes

Hi,

No, the satellite file only has one 2-D array in it containing the
values of the satellite image itself. So it seems NCL knows where to
put all the pixels in the image, but not how to share that information
with the user?

Anneliese

----- Original Message -----
From: Mary Haley <haley_at_ucar.edu>
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 7:14 am
Subject: Re: outputting latitudes and longitudes that NCL
computes

>
>
> On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Anneliese Alexander wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a satellite image that I know the corner points of. It
> is a
> > Lambert-Conformal image, and I also have the standard latitude
(just
> > one, not 2), and standard longitude. Using that information,
> NCL is
> > able to plot the image using the "gsn_contour_map" command.
> However, I
> > want to know the specific latitudes and longitudes of each point
> in the
> > image. Is there a way to get NCL to print out those values or
> get them
> > into a data array that I can access?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Anneliese
>
> Anneliese,
>
> As I understand your question, this is not possible with NCL.
>
> However, is it possible that the file with the satellite image
> has this information availble, probably as 2D lat/lon arrays
> on the file?
>
> --Mary
>
>
> > --
> >
>
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Received on Tue Jun 30 2009 - 08:33:19 MDT