Re: Irregular grids in NCL

From: Szymon Jaranowski <szymon.jaranowski_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Wed Aug 22 2012 - 03:57:08 MDT

Dear Mary,
I've commented the option; the result is very strange (attachment).
Just like the coordinate systems of a map and data were completely
different (the data is in geographic coordinates).

-- 
With best regards,
Szymon Jaranowski
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Mary Haley <haley@ucar.edu> wrote:
> Dear Szymon,
>
> In land_var.ncl, I noticed you are setting:
>
>   res@tfDoNDCOverlay        = True
>
> When you do this, you are effectively telling NCL that you've already set up the
> map projection to exactly match the projection of your data, and hence it ignores
> any settings of sfXArray and sfYArray.
>
> Try commenting this line out and rerunning your script.
>
> --Mary
>
> On Aug 21, 2012, at 6:06 AM, Szymon Jaranowski wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to draw a simple landmask using NCL.
>>
>> First on a regular grid - it works fine.
>> Some images (attached):
>>
>> 1. Plot of grid's nodes (plot of geographic coordinates): grid_reg.png
>> 2. Result: land_reg.png
>> 3. NCL script: land_reg.ncl
>>
>> Then I'm doing the same on a second grid. The second grid covers the same area,
>> but is more dense and irregular. Zoom of upper left corner:
>>
>> 4. Zoom of upper left corner: grid_var_zoom.png
>>
>> As seen on the image, nodes are irregularily spaced, but still this grid is
>> a cartesian product of 1D grids. The effect:
>>
>> 5. Result: land_var.png
>> 6. NCL script: land_var.ncl
>>
>> It seems sfXArray and sfYArray options are ignored - the data is plotted just
>> like the spaces between the nodes where the same. Is it possible to draw plots
>> on such grids in NCL?
>>
>> --
>> With best regards,
>> Szymon Jaranowski
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