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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks Mary!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">First, I am sorry for the slow response. Yesterday was one of those days ….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Right after I sent my original email I realized that the difference in the three plots (and software used) was that we had done the subset for the NCL plots.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Some of this code was written last year by a student with “guidance” from me. It was probably more likely pointing at documentation at the NCL web site than
getting real guidance like a new programmer should have. I should have been more careful in thinking it all through, but I don’t get to code in NCL regularly enough to retain all the details.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">One last question (for now). The documentation for tfDoNDCOverlay says it is a Boolean (i.e. just two possible choices, but there are three options under the
section in the documentation. I know part of my confusion is related to not really understanding the language, but how do I invoke the option NDCDataExtent?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/Resources/tf.shtml">https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/Resources/tf.shtml</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks again for the quick help!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Chris H.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Dr. Christopher G. Herbster<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Schedule at: http://wx.erau.edu/faculty/herbster/Schedules/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Mary Haley <haley@ucar.edu>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 27, 2018 6:58 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Herbster, Christopher G. <herbstec@erau.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> ncl-talk@ucar.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ncl-talk] Problem aligning data with map<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The issue is that you are subsetting your data by selecting a lat/lon area of interest, but then trying to plot this data using the projection defined for the original data. When you set the "tfDoNDCOverlay" resource to True, this signals
to NCL that you are plotting data in its "native" projection, and hence you need to set the map parameters exactly right for the data you are plotting.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you are plotting the original data (see narr_plot.ncl), then you can use the map projection parameters on the file to plot the data. This script shows how to plot the data on both a cylindrical equidistant projection using the 2D lat/lon
arrays read off the file, and in the native projection using map projection information attached to the lat/lon arrays. I've attached the PNGs from this script.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you want to zoom in on the data, then unless you know the exact projection parameters for the zoomed data, you will have to subset the 2D lat/lon arrays in the same fashion as the data, and use these for plotting. See the attached narr_plot_zoom.ncl
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<p class="MsoNormal">Finally, I took your original script and applied the same concepts I used in narr_plot_zoom.ncl. Instead of using tfDoOverlay, it uses the subsetted lat/lon arrays to get the overlay correct:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> res@sfXArray = lon2d_small<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Note that in narr_plot_zoom.ncl, I didn't use sfXArray / sfYArray. Instead, I used:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> var_subset@lat2d = lat_subset <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">These are essentially the same thing. I was just lazy and didn't want to have to attach the special "lat2d" and "lon2d" attributes to every variable being plotted.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For more descriptive information on all this, you may want to visit our "plotting data on a map" page:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/plot_data_on_map.shtml">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/plot_data_on_map.shtml</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Let me know if you have any questions about what I did.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 3:02 PM, Herbster, Christopher G. <<a href="mailto:herbstec@erau.edu" target="_blank">herbstec@erau.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Hi folks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Here is a sequence of events that we are using to download some NARR data from NOMADS at NCDC:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">We use the
<a href="http://get-httpsubset.pl" target="_blank">get-httpsubset.pl</a> script from<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/guide/index.php?name=advanced#adv-httpsubset" target="_blank">https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/guide/index.php?name=advanced#adv-httpsubset</a>
and the Perl scripts from<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/wesley/fast_downloading_grib.html" target="_blank">http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/wesley/fast_downloading_grib.html</a> to
grab a handful of parameters from the NARR dataset.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">This gives us GRIB files like:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="http://wx.erau.edu/faculty/herbster/demo/.hidden/NCL/narr-a_221_20101201_1200_000.sub.grb" target="_blank">http://wx.erau.edu/faculty/herbster/demo/.hidden/NCL/narr-a_221_20101201_1200_000.sub.grb</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I then used: ncl_convert2nc narr-a_221_20101201_1200_000.sub.grb -nc4c -l<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">To make
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="http://wx.erau.edu/faculty/herbster/demo/.hidden/NCL/narr-a_221_20101201_1200_000.sub.nc4" target="_blank">http://wx.erau.edu/faculty/herbster/demo/.hidden/NCL/narr-a_221_20101201_1200_000.sub.nc4</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I did this for 30 years of data ending 12-31-2010.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">We then used an NCL script to do some calculations on a month of data, and write the results into a new file.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Here is the script:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="http://wx.erau.edu/faculty/herbster/demo/.hidden/NCL/read_narr_ncar-help.ncl" target="_blank">http://wx.erau.edu/faculty/herbster/demo/.hidden/NCL/read_narr_ncar-help.ncl</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">My apologies to those of you who actually know how to code in NCL. I am strictly an amateur at this.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Here is the file we created:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="http://wx.erau.edu/faculty/herbster/demo/.hidden/NCL/D-Value_Monthly_Stats.2010.12.averages.1200.nc" target="_blank">http://wx.erau.edu/faculty/herbster/demo/.hidden/NCL/D-Value_Monthly_Stats.2010.12.averages.1200.nc</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Our problem seems to be aligning the data to the map background, as I can show with the following images:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The grey area in this image is supposed to be where the terrain is higher than the calculated value:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The data mask area is too far to the west, even extending out over the ocean.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">When we plot it in the Unidata IDV we get what we expect:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="http://wx.erau.edu/faculty/herbster/demo/.hidden/NCL/IDV_4K_Mask_D-Val.png" target="_blank">http://wx.erau.edu/faculty/herbster/demo/.hidden/NCL/IDV_4K_Mask_D-Val.png</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Then we decided to try plotting it in Matlab as another test. We got:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">While I suspect that I am not doing something properly with the mapping of the data, I am also wondering about the results of making the NetCDF file from the ncl_convert command.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">First, is the compression lossy? I realized that the default compression is zero, so this step did not do much for disk space! (Actually made bigger files, but never mind.)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">When I load the original GRIB file into the IDV it displays the region properly without any problem. When I try to load the original NetCDF file, the IDV does not seem to know
the geographic region of the data. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">This can be seen in the following images:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="http://wx.erau.edu/faculty/herbster/demo/.hidden/NCL/load-both-idv.png" target="_blank">http://wx.erau.edu/faculty/herbster/demo/.hidden/NCL/load-both-idv.png</a> shows
the Mean Sea Level Pressure data from both files. They appear to match. However, when I added the second panel (NetCDF file), the IDV did not display the data properly, and did so only after I selected a predefined CONUS projection (as shown).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">When I open the NetCDF file and plotted MSLP in a window by itself, I got this:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="http://wx.erau.edu/faculty/herbster/demo/.hidden/NCL/load-netcdf-idv.png" target="_blank">http://wx.erau.edu/faculty/herbster/demo/.hidden/NCL/load-netcdf-idv.png</a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I had to zoom way out to display this data. It knows where to put the data, but the IDV thinks the data should be in the white box area, I think. (I’m not really sure about this
interpretation.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The questions I have are:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="m4321895138347317005msolistparagraph">1)<span style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span>Why does this happen?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="m4321895138347317005msolistparagraph">2)<span style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span>Is this related to my data masking and mapping problem, or are they separate issues?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Thanks in advance for any help on any of these problems/questions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Chris
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">PS If you want to test our script, there is a month of data in this tar file:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="http://wx.erau.edu/faculty/herbster/demo/.hidden/NCL/sample-narr.tgz" target="_blank">http://wx.erau.edu/faculty/herbster/demo/.hidden/NCL/sample-narr.tgz</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Director of Science and Technology<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">for the ERAU Weather Center<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Applied Aviation Sciences<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">600 S. Clyde Morris Blvd.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Daytona Beach, FL 32114-3900<o:p></o:p></p>
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