[ncl-talk] Sim reflectivity not plotting

Ryan Connelly rconne01 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 19 21:09:43 MDT 2016


Hey Kacie,

I am purposely interpolating it to a plane so that I can make an apples to
apples comparison to a 2 km interpolation of radar data without having to
deal with beam height uncertainty.  Otherwise you're right, you can just
call dbz directly, and I think it defaults to the lowest level?

Ryan

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 9:52 PM, Kacie Shourd <Kacie.Shourd at dri.edu> wrote:

> Hey Ryan,
>
> Could you do a printVarSummary on dbz? I don't think it has to be
> interpolated to a plane. I could be wrong, but I know mdbz doesn't have to
> be. Change
>
> contour = wrf_contour(a,wks,dbz_plane(:,:),opts)
>
> to
>
> contour = wrf_contour(a,wks,dbz,opts)
>
> and see if that works.
>
> :)
> Best
> Kacie
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* ncl-talk-bounces at ucar.edu [ncl-talk-bounces at ucar.edu] on behalf
> of Ryan Connelly [rconne01 at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 19, 2016 3:07 PM
> *To:* ncl-talk
> *Subject:* [ncl-talk] Sim reflectivity not plotting
>
> Hi,
>
> Any idea why sim reflec isn't plotting?  It's the baseline script which
> I've been using and modifying for many months, but suddenly today,
> nothing.  No error, but no contours generated.
>
> The WRF run has weather there: a Low, and accumulating rain, so it's
> surprising there's no sim reflec.
>
> I have do_radar_reflec = 1 in the namelist, and I checked that the values
> weren't outside the range being plotted.  I tried switching from "dbz" to
> "REFL_10CM", and neither produces any contours.
>
>      dbz = wrf_user_getvar(a,"dbz",it)
>      z = wrf_user_getvar(a,"z",it)
>
>      height = 2000.     ; 2 km
>      dbz_plane  = wrf_user_intrp3d(dbz,z,"h",height,0.,False)
>
>      opts = res
>      opts at cnFillOn = True
>      opts at ContourParameters = (/ 10., 50., 2./)
>      contour = wrf_contour(a,wks,dbz_plane(:,:),opts)     ; plot only
> lowest level
>      plot = wrf_map_overlays(a,wks,(/contour/),pltres,mpres)
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan
>
> --
> Ryan Connelly
> M.S. Student in Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University
> B.S. in Meteorology with Minors in Mathematics and GIS, Valparaiso
> University
> rconne01 at gmail.com
> ryan.connelly at stonybrook.edu
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Ryan Connelly
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B.S. in Meteorology with Minors in Mathematics and GIS, Valparaiso
University
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