Hi Group,
I'm fairly new to the NCL world, and have a question which may be a bit
too specific for this group....but here goes:
I have an interest in creating a surface weather map of sorts.
Specifically what I am trying to do is plot:
1) A background map for a specific domain (from a supplied
upper-right/lower-left lat/lon bounding box pair),
2) representations of various meteorological parameters at
given surface stations which exist in the specific
domain specified in 1. Representations include:
a) wind vectors at each station
and
b) surface station model plots
3) My data are in ASCII format and look like:
Stid lon lat spd dir
---- -------- ------ ----- -----
01 -112.92 40.19 3.7 275
02 -113.22 40.04 2.1 289
03 -113.32 40.20 2.7 193
04 -113.05 40.05 4.3 322
05 -112.89 40.16 3.3 162
06 -112.96 40.14 5.6 271
07 -112.72 40.22 4.5 293
08 -113.17 40.20 3.4 055
09 -113.13 40.24 3.3 310
10 -113.02 40.18 3.5 333
11 -112.98 40.10 2.4 306
12 -113.10 40.10 2.6 271
17 -113.48 40.73 2.5 119
Ideally, I'd like the plot to look similar to that in the attached PNG
-- obs_vec.png. obs_vec.png was created using another tool -- I've just
attached it so you can see what I am shooting for.
I should mention that I am pretty familiar with NCL basics like
asciiread, etc. I have also perused the many SCD and CSM NCL examples,
but didn't see any that were reasonably close to what I am trying to do.
I'm not sure quite how to approach this problem, but would sure appreciate
any help you can provide.
Best regards,
Daran
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Daran L. Rife
Associate Scientist
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Research Applications Program
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder CO, 80307-3000
303.497.8398
drife@ucar.edu
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