a = addfile("wrfout_d03_2017-04-03_06:00:00_ctrl","r") time = 0 refl_10cm = wrf_user_getvar(a,"REFL_10CM",time) z = wrf_user_getvar(a, "z", time) lat = wrf_user_getvar(a, "lat", time) lon = wrf_user_getvar(a, "lon", time) ; convert the lat/lon to x,y start_lat = 20.9 start_lon = 92.5 end_lat = 29.2 end_lon = 92.5 opt = True start_ij = wrf_user_ll_to_ij(a, start_lon, start_lat, opt) start_ij = start_ij - 1 end_ij = wrf_user_ll_to_ij(a, end_lon, end_lat, opt) end_ij = end_ij - 1 start_end = (/start_ij(0), start_ij(1), end_ij(0), end_ij(1)/) lat_line = wrf_user_intrp2d(lat,start_end,0.0,True) nlat = dimsizes(lat_line) lon_line = wrf_user_intrp2d(lon,start_end,0.0,True) refl_cross = wrf_user_intrp3d(refl_10cm,z,"v",start_end,0.,True) ; Need to make a vertical coordinate by using the same code as the ; cross section ; Currently, the vertical coordinate is not set, so let's do it ; manually. This will be fixed in the next version of NCL. ; If you want to set these levels yourself, you'll need to copy the ; code I sent before and manually set the levels in the cross section ; routine, then do it again here. z_max = max(z) z_min = 0. dz = 0.01 * z_max nlevels = tointeger( z_max/dz ) z_var2d = new( (/nlevels/), typeof(z)) z_var2d(0) = z_min do i=1, nlevels-1 z_var2d(i) = z_var2d(0)+i*dz end do refl_cross&Vertical = z_var2d wks = gsn_open_wks("png","cross") cmap := read_colormap_file("BlAqGrYeOrReVi200") cmap(0,:) = (/0,0,0,0/) ; make first color fully transparent resx = True resx@gsnMaximize = True resx@lbLabelAutoStride = True ; default v6.1.0 resx@cnFillOn = True ; turn on color fill resx@cnLinesOn = False ; turn lines on/off ; True is default resx@cnLineLabelsOn = False ; turn line labels on/off ; True is default resx@cnFillPalette = cmap nLabels = 8 ; arbitrary resx@tmXBLabels = new(nLabels,"string") resx@tmXBMode = "Explicit" resx@tmXBValues := toint(fspan(0,nlat-1,nLabels)) do i=0,nLabels-1 x = lon_line(i) y = lat_line(i) resx@tmXBLabels(i) = sprintf("%5.1f", y)+"~C~"+sprintf("%5.1f", x) end do resx@tiMainString = "Full South-North Grid Line X-Section" plot1 = gsn_csm_contour(wks, refl_cross, resx )