[Met_help] [rt.rap.ucar.edu #64211] History for looking for tools to display prepbufr file

[John Halley Gotway via RT]

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Hi MET_HELP,

I would like to get the software to display/plot the variables in prepbufr
format files. I searched online, but I can not find one. Could you
recommend one?

Thank you in advance,

Jiang

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Jiang Zhu, Ph.D.
Geographic Information Network of Alaska
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Phone: 907-474-5689, EMAIL: jiang at gina.alaska.edu
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Subject: Re: [rt.rap.ucar.edu #64211] looking for tools to display prepbufr file
From: John Halley Gotway
Time: Tue Nov 12 16:08:56 2013

Jiang,

I apologize for the delay in getting back to you.

I am not aware of any tools for displaying PREPBUFR data.  One thing
that comes close is the plot_point_obs tool within MET.  When you run
a PREPBUFR file through pb2nc, you'll get a NetCDF version of
that PREPBUFR file.  Then you can run the plot_point_obs tool on that
NetCDF point observation file, but all it does is plot a dot at each
(lat,lon) where an observation exists.  You can filter the
data to be plotted a bit using command line options for
point_point_obs:
  -gc to specify a particular GRIB code, or observation type
  -msg_typ to specify a particular message type, like ADPSFC or ADPUPA

But it doesn't plot the actual observation values, just their
location.  It's intended as more of a diagnostic tool when performing
verification.  Users often ask, why didn't I get any matched pairs
from Point-Stat.  You can use the output of plot_data_plane to see if
any point observations actually fall within your domain.

But it is not the general-purpose plotting tool that I imagine you're
looking for.

Thanks,
John Halley Gotway
met_help at ucar.edu

On 11/07/2013 06:40 PM, Jiang Zhu via RT wrote:
>
> Thu Nov 07 18:40:59 2013: Request 64211 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created by jiang at gina.alaska.edu
>         Queue: met_help
>       Subject: looking for tools to display prepbufr file
>         Owner: Nobody
>    Requestors: jiang at gina.alaska.edu
>        Status: new
>   Ticket <URL:
https://rt.rap.ucar.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=64211 >
>
>
> Hi MET_HELP,
>
> I would like to get the software to display/plot the variables in
prepbufr
> format files. I searched online, but I can not find one. Could you
> recommend one?
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Jiang
>
> **********************************************************
> Jiang Zhu, Ph.D.
> Geographic Information Network of Alaska
> University of Alaska Fairbanks
> Phone: 907-474-5689, EMAIL: jiang at gina.alaska.edu
> ***********************************************************
>

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Subject: looking for tools to display prepbufr file
From: Jiang Zhu
Time: Tue Nov 12 16:46:15 2013

Hi John,

It is OK. I use python to plot the point scatter plot with map
underneath.

Thank you very much!

Jiang


On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 2:08 PM, John Halley Gotway via RT <
met_help at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Jiang,
>
> I apologize for the delay in getting back to you.
>
> I am not aware of any tools for displaying PREPBUFR data.  One thing
that
> comes close is the plot_point_obs tool within MET.  When you run a
PREPBUFR
> file through pb2nc, you'll get a NetCDF version of
> that PREPBUFR file.  Then you can run the plot_point_obs tool on
that
> NetCDF point observation file, but all it does is plot a dot at each
> (lat,lon) where an observation exists.  You can filter the
> data to be plotted a bit using command line options for
point_point_obs:
>   -gc to specify a particular GRIB code, or observation type
>   -msg_typ to specify a particular message type, like ADPSFC or
ADPUPA
>
> But it doesn't plot the actual observation values, just their
location.
>  It's intended as more of a diagnostic tool when performing
verification.
>  Users often ask, why didn't I get any matched pairs
> from Point-Stat.  You can use the output of plot_data_plane to see
if any
> point observations actually fall within your domain.
>
> But it is not the general-purpose plotting tool that I imagine
you're
> looking for.
>
> Thanks,
> John Halley Gotway
> met_help at ucar.edu
>
> On 11/07/2013 06:40 PM, Jiang Zhu via RT wrote:
> >
> > Thu Nov 07 18:40:59 2013: Request 64211 was acted upon.
> > Transaction: Ticket created by jiang at gina.alaska.edu
> >         Queue: met_help
> >       Subject: looking for tools to display prepbufr file
> >         Owner: Nobody
> >    Requestors: jiang at gina.alaska.edu
> >        Status: new
> >   Ticket <URL:
https://rt.rap.ucar.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=64211 >
> >
> >
> > Hi MET_HELP,
> >
> > I would like to get the software to display/plot the variables in
> prepbufr
> > format files. I searched online, but I can not find one. Could you
> > recommend one?
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> >
> > Jiang
> >
> > **********************************************************
> > Jiang Zhu, Ph.D.
> > Geographic Information Network of Alaska
> > University of Alaska Fairbanks
> > Phone: 907-474-5689, EMAIL: jiang at gina.alaska.edu
> > ***********************************************************
> >
>
>


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Jiang Zhu, Ph.D.
Geographic Information Network of Alaska
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Phone: 907-474-5689, EMAIL: jiang at gina.alaska.edu
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