<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Hi Tabish,<div><br></div><div>Yes, you are correct. Total pressure = P + PB.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,<br><br><div><span name="x"></span>Eric L. Altshuler<br>Research Scientist<br>Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies<br>253 Research Hall, Mail Stop 6C5<div>George Mason University</div><div>4400 University Drive<br>Fairfax, VA 22030 USA<br><br>E-mail: ela@cola.iges.org<br>Phone: (703) 993-5725<br>Fax: (703) 993-5770</div><span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><b>From: </b>"Tabish Ansari" <tabishumaransari@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>wrf-users@ucar.edu<br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, February 16, 2015 9:04:26 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>[Wrf-users] plot surface pressure in WRF<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#45818e">Hi</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#45818e"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#45818e">I want to plot pressure at various model levels (50 in my case). I notice that there are 2 variables related to pressure in WRF: P (perturbation pressure) and PB (base state pressure).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#45818e"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#45818e">Do I need to add both the variables to obtain the total pressure at a given vertical level?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#45818e"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#45818e">Thanks in advance</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#45818e"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Tabish U Ansari</font><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">MS Research Scholar<br>Environmental & Water Resources Engineering Division</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Department of Civil Engineering</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">IIT Madras</font></div></div></div></div>
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