[ncl-talk] CMIP5 tos Problem

sjd.marjani sjd.marjani at ut.ac.ir
Wed Oct 25 13:27:49 MDT 2017


On 2017-10-25 21:53, Dennis Shea wrote:

> I think you should provide what you have done. 
> 
> If you are learning NCL, please look at the excellent tutorial by DKRZ at:
> 
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Manuals/
> 
> The User Guide has many examples. 
> 
> To learn any language you must invest the time to learn 
> 
> --- 
> We do not have any tos file available. The following is an untested guess. ANy errors you must fix. 
> 
> --- 
> diri = "./"     ; input directory 
> fili   = "tso ...nc"                     ; your file 
> pthi = diri+fili 
> f     = addfile( pthi, "r")
> 
> x    = f->tos                           ; (time,nlat,mlon) 
> lat2d = f->lat                         ; (nlat,mlon) 
> lon2d =f->lon
> 
> printVarSummary(x)
> printMinMax(x, 0)   print("---") 
> printVarSummary(lat2d) 
> printMinMax(lat2d, 0)   print("---")
> printVarSummary(lon2d) 
> printMinMax(lon2d, 0)   print("---")
> 
> wks  = gsn_open_wks("png","marjani")            ; open a ps file
> gsn_define_colormap(wks,"BlAqGrYeOrRe")         ; choose colormap
> 
> res                      = True
> res at cnFillOn             = True                 ; turn on color
> res at cnFillMode        = "RasterFill"         ; turn on raster mode  ... optional
> res at cnLinesOn        = False                ; turn off contour lines
> res at cnLineLabelsOn    = False
> res at cnFillPalette      = "BlAqGrYeOrRe"   ; your choice
> 
> x at lat2d = lat2d
> x at lon2d = lon2d 
> 
> nt = 0
> plot = gsn_csm_contour_map_ce(wks,x(nt,:,:),res)
> 
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 11:37 PM, sjd.marjani <sjd.marjani at ut.ac.ir> wrote:
> 
>> Hello . I have problem with CMIP5 sea surface temperature(tos). 
>> 
>> I dont know how to read it in ncl and how to plot it (the shape of data is not regular), 
>> 
>> its more than 1week I'm working on it . 
>> 
>> could YOU please help me ,send me an example script or something like this ??? 
>> 
>> thank you 
>> 
>> best regaurd 
>> 
>> Sajede,MS student   
>> 
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my problem is with this kind of data,,which are not regular.and i didn't
find any suitable example in ncl examples. 

I dont know how to plot this kind of data with lat and lon vertices 

and I cant understand how shoul I read latititude and longitude 

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netcdf tos_Omon_CCSM4_historical_r1i1p1_185001-200512 {
dimensions:
        time = UNLIMITED ; // (1872 currently)
        j = 384 ;
        i = 320 ;
        bnds = 2 ;
        vertices = 4 ;
variables:
        double time(time) ;
                time:bounds = "time_bnds" ;
                time:units = "days since 0000-01-01 00:00:00" ;
                time:calendar = "noleap" ;
                time:axis = "T" ;
                time:long_name = "time" ;
                time:standard_name = "time" ;
        double time_bnds(time, bnds) ;
        int j(j) ;
                j:units = "1" ;
                j:long_name = "cell index along second dimension" ;
        int i(i) ;
                i:units = "1" ;
                i:long_name = "cell index along first dimension" ;
        float lat(j, i) ;
                lat:standard_name = "latitude" ;
                lat:long_name = "latitude coordinate" ;
                lat:units = "degrees_north" ;
                lat:bounds = "lat_vertices" ;
        float lon(j, i) ;
                lon:standard_name = "longitude" ;
                lon:long_name = "longitude coordinate" ;
                lon:units = "degrees_east" ;
                lon:bounds = "lon_vertices" ;
        float lat_vertices(j, i, vertices) ;
                lat_vertices:units = "degrees_north" ;
        float lon_vertices(j, i, vertices) ;
                lon_vertices:units = "degrees_east" ;
        float tos(time, j, i) ;
                tos:standard_name = "sea_surface_temperature" ;
                tos:long_name = "Sea Surface Temperature" ;
                tos:comment = "TEMP at topmost level, units from C to
K\r, CMIP5_table_comment: \"this may differ from \"\"surface
temperature\"\" in regions of sea ice.\"" ;
                tos:units = "K" ;
                tos:original_name = "TEMP" 

 tos:original_units = "degC" ;
                tos:history = "2012-02-06T03:00:10Z altered by CMOR:
Converted units from \'degC\' to \'K\'. 2012-02-06T03:00:10Z altered by
CMOR: replaced missing value flag (9.96921e+36) with standard missing
value (1e+20)." ;
                tos:cell_methods = "time: mean (interval: 30 days)" ;
                tos:cell_measures = "area: areacello" ;
                tos:missing_value = 1.e+20f ;
                tos:_FillValue = 1.e+20f ;
                tos:associated_files = "baseURL:
http://cmip-pcmdi.llnl.gov/CMIP5/dataLocation gridspecFile:
gridspec_ocean_fx_CCSM4_historical_r0i0p0.nc areacello:
areacello_fx_CCSM4_historical_r0i0p0.nc" ;
                tos:coordinates = "lat lon" ; 

// global attributes:
                :institution = "NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric
Research) Boulder, CO, USA" ;
                :institute_id = "NCAR" ;
                :experiment_id = "historical" ;
                :source = "CCSM4" ;
                :model_id = "CCSM4" ;
                :forcing = "Sl GHG Vl SS Ds SD BC MD OC Oz AA LU" ;
                :parent_experiment_id = "piControl" ;
                :parent_experiment_rip = "r1i1p1" ;
                :branch_time = 937. ;
                :contact = "cesm_data at ucar.edu" ;
                :references = "Gent P. R., et.al. 2011: The Community
Climate System Model version 4. J. Climate, doi: 10.1175/2011JCLI4083.1"
;
                :initialization_method = 1 ;
                :physics_version = 1 ;
                :tracking_id = "422cd5f0-a259-4e97-bc7a-54200741a241" ;
                :acknowledgements = "The CESM project is supported by
the National Science Foundation and the Office of Science (BER) of the
U.S. Department of Energy. NCAR is sponsored by the National Science
Foundation. Computing resources were provided by the Climate Simulation
Laboratory at the NCAR Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
(CISL), sponsored by the National Science Foundation and other
agencies." ;
                :cesm_casename = "b40.20th.track1.1deg.008" ;
                :cesm_repotag = "ccsm4_0_beta43" ;
                :cesm_compset = "B20TRCN" ;
                :resolution = "f09_g16 (0.9x1.25_gx1v6)" ;
                :forcing_note = "Additional information on the external
forcings used in this experiment can be found at
http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/CMIP5/forcing_information" ;
                :processed_by = "strandwg on silver.cgd.ucar.edu at
20120205  -200010.598" ;
                :processing_code_information = "Last Changed Rev: 526
Last Changed Date: 2012-02-05 16:49:28 -0700 (Sun, 05 Feb 2012)
Repository UUID: d2181dbe-5796-6825-dc7f-cbd98591f93d" ;
                :product = "output" ;
                :experiment = "historical" ; 

 :frequency = "mon" ;
                :creation_date = "2012-02-06T03:00:22Z" ;
                :history = "2012-02-06T03:00:22Z CMOR rewrote data to
comply with CF standards and CMIP5 requirements." ;
                :Conventions = "CF-1.4" ;
                :project_id = "CMIP5" ;
                :table_id = "Table Omon (12 January 2012)
980e0aeb02de4233251f100571014e41" ;
                :title = "CCSM4 model output prepared for CMIP5
historical" ;
                :parent_experiment = "pre-industrial control" ;
                :modeling_realm = "ocean" ;
                :realization = 1 ;
                :cmor_version = "2.7.1" ; 

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