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Dear helping desk,<br>
I am a beginner with NCL and I have the following issue. I have a
netcdf file with some data obtained from an ice sheet model run. The
model transforms latitude-longitude coordinates into native
Cartesian distances coordinates via the Lambert equal Area
projection, using as a center of projection the North Pole (0,90).
Hence my data in the netcdf file are geographically dependent on
native Cartesian distances coordinates. I am trying now to plot a
contour over a map of the Northern Emisphere of one of the netcdf
file variables (let's say the ice thickness). First of all, I
imported succesfully the variables I am interested to, depending on
time, x and y, along with the latitude and longitude variables, on x
and y (where x and y are defined in native Cartesian distances from
(0,90). In order to go back from the native Cartesian distances to
latitude and longitude, I define a new array <i>without </i>attributes
(if the original variable is H, I just insert Hlatlon= (\ H \)).
Then I name the three dimensions of the new variable Hlatlon (time,
lat, lon), and I assign to the dimension number 1 and 2 (using the
NCL enumeration from 0) the coordinate variables lat and lon.
Finally, I plot the contour of ice thickness over the map. What I
get when I run the script is wrong (I'm sure as, for instance,
Greenland is ice free). Where I did wrong? Is there a better (faster
or more correct) way to plot my contour with such variables?<br>
Thank you for your help,<br>
<br>
Michele
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Michele Petrini
Ph.D. student in Earth Science and Fluid Mechanics
Universitą degli studi di Trieste,
Dipartimento di Matematica e Geoscienze
Palazzina C - via Weiss 1, 34128 Trieste, Italy
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mpetrini139@yahoo.it">mpetrini139@yahoo.it</a>
Skype: michele.petrins
Mobile: +39 3398367372
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