<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">You can use a combination of shapefiles and the "gc_inout" function in order to collect values for a given county and get an average.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">My suggestion is to use the USA_adm2.shp shapefile downloaded from <a href="http://gadm.org/country">gadm.org/country</a>, and then look at example "shapefiles_13.ncl" at:</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/shapefiles.shtml#ex13">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/shapefiles.shtml#ex13</a><br>
</div><div class="gmail_default" style><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style>You can also look at the example right after that, which does the same thing for the coastal counties of Germany, "<a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/Scripts/Germany_coastal_counties_DEU_adm.ncl">Germany_coastal_counties_DEU_adm.ncl</a>".</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style>The "shapefiles_13.ncl" example only does the counties of Georgia. Let me know if you need help extending it to do all the counties of the US. It would help, however, if you could provide me with your two WRF output files.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style>--Mary</div><div class="gmail_default" style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Mohammadhassan Mohegh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mohegh@usc.edu" target="_blank">mohegh@usc.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr">Hi<div><br></div><div>I'm working with WRF model output and I need to average the differences of 2 outputs within a county. Is there any way to do this? Are there shapefiles or netcdf files available for US counties that NCL recognizes?</div>
<div><br></div><div>I have created a netcdf file containing these counties using ARCGIS. The problem is that it does not have the same grid and I can't use the mask() function with it. Does any one know of a </div><div>
<br></div><div>Thanks in advance for your help.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><br></div></font></span></font></span></div></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all">
<div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="Arial"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Mohammadhassan Mohegh, PhD student</span></font></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:small;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Astani Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering</span><font face="Arial"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font face="Arial">University of Southern California</font></span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font face="Arial">3620 South Vermont Ave, KAP227</font></span></div><div><font face="Arial"><font color="#666666">Los Angeles, CA</font></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><font color="#666666"><a href="mailto:mohegh@usc.edu" target="_blank">mohegh@usc.edu</a></font></font></div>
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