[ncl-talk] dsgrid interpolation problem station data)

[Rick Brownrigg]

Hi Stavros,

I don't see where the array zo returned from dsgrid2() has any coordinate
information (?)

I'm not expert at this, but if I correctly understand what's going on, I
think you need to do something like:

; make coordinate variables; i.e, varname == dimension name
xo!0 = "xo"
yo!0 = "yo"

; associate coord vars to data variable
zo!0 = "xo"
zo!1 = "yo"
zo&xo = xo
zo&yo = yo

and then of course, to reorder for plotting you'd write  zo(yo|:, xo|:)

I hope that helps.

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 6:07 AM, Stavros Dafis <sdafis at cc.uoi.gr> wrote:

> Dear NCL users,
>
> I am facing a problem when interpolating unstructured station data. I read
> an
> ascii file with lat/lon and rainfall data. The problem is that the
> interpolated
> values with dsgrid2 do not match with the real data, for example in the map
> attached 69mm of rainfall (North Greece) is printed on the map but the
> shaded
> rainfall is far away from the actual position of the station. Moreover,
> near
> Athens, we have some stations with up to 20mm of accumulated rainfall but
> interpolation gives 0-5mm.
>
> I have to mention that with temperature data, from the same ascii, using
> the
> same method with dsgrid2, the result is almost flawless (attached png with
> Attica).
>
> I have also tried ESMF method (attached), obj_anal_ic, triple2grid,
> natgrid but
> the problem is the same. Here is the part of the code doing calculations:
>
>
> x = stations(:,2)  ; Column 3 of file contains LONGITUDE values.
> y = stations(:,1)  ; Column 2 of file contains LATITUDE values.
> z = stations(:,15)  ; Column 11 of file contains RAINFALL values.
>
>
>   numxout = 100  ; Define output grid for call to "dsgrid2".
>   numyout = 100
>   xmin    = min(x)
>   ymin    = min(y)
>   xmax    = max(x)
>   ymax    = max(y)
>   zmin    = min(z)
>   zmax    = max(z)
>
>   xc      = (xmax-xmin)/(numxout-1)
>   yc      = (ymax-ymin)/(numyout-1)
>   xo      = xmin + ispan(0,numxout-1,1)*xc
>   yo      = ymin + ispan(0,numyout-1,1)*yc
>
>   ;zo = natgrid(x, y, z, xo, yo)  ; Interpolate.
>   ;zo = natgrids(x, y, z, xo, yo) ; Interpolate.
>    rscan = (/0.25, 0.1, 0.01/)
>   ;zo = obj_anal_ic(x,y,z, xo,yo, rscan, False)
> opt  = True
> opt at distmx = 30      ; kilometers
> ;zo = triple2grid(x, y, z, xo, yo, opt)
>
>
> zo = dsgrid2(x, y, z, xo, yo)  ; Interpolate.
>
> zo!0 = "i"  ; Name the dimensions of "zo".
> zo!1 = "j"
>
>
> contour = gsn_csm_contour_map(wks,zo(j|:,i|:),res)
>
>
> ;--------
> ;ESMF
>   Opt                 = True
>   Opt at SrcGridLat      = y
>   Opt at SrcGridLon      = x
>   Opt at DstLLCorner     = (/floor(min(y)),floor(min(x))/)
>   Opt at DstURCorner     = (/ ceil(max(y)), ceil(max(x))/)
>   Opt at DstGridType     = "0.1deg"
>   Opt at ForceOverwrite  = True
>   Opt at Debug           = True
>   Opt at InterpMethod    = "patch"
>   ;zo = ESMF_regrid(z,Opt)
>
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
>
> --
> Stavros NTAFIS (DAFIS)
> -----------------------------------------------
> Physicist - Meteorologist, M.Sc.
> Research Associate, National Observatory of Athens
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