<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi Laura,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Is there something unique about the TRMM high-res orbital data that would prevent you from using the standard TRMM examples? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I'm not familiar with TRMM data, but I see from the "hdf4sds_1.ncl" example:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""> <a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/HDF.shtml">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/HDF.shtml</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><div class="gmail_default">that there were a few of things that had to be done before the data could be plotted:</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><ul><li>The array was reordered to be scan x latitude x longitude, because it originally comes in as scan x longitude x latitude:<br></li></ul><div><pre> prc = work(scan|:,latitude|:,longitude|:)</pre><pre><ul><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Some metadata was attached (to make better titles on the plots)
</font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Lat/lon arrays were created from scratch and attached to "prc".
I'm not sure why this was done, because I would think the lat/lon arrays would be provided on the file, but the script keeps referring to a README section that I haven't looked at)</font></li></ul><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">You then simply call gsn_csm_contour_map to plot "prc" over a map. Note that "res@cnFillMode" is being set to "RasterFill". This is *very* important for large datasets. The default "AreaFill" (smoothed) contouring in NCL is too slow for large data.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">If you still have problems, then can you point us to a data file that we can download? Also, it would help to know what kind of plot you need to create.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">--Mary</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div></pre></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 8:51 PM, Laura Fowler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:laura@ucar.edu" target="_blank">laura@ucar.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi ncl users:<br>
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I browsed through the examples that show how to plot TRMM data, but I<br>
did not find an example on how to plot high-resolution orbital data.<br>
Is there an example that I can used to plot 2B31 TRMM data?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Laura<br>
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