[ncl-talk] SST plot with strange range

Don Murray (NOAA Affiliate) don.murray at noaa.gov
Thu Nov 12 09:13:02 MST 2015


The numbers are probably packed into shorts with scale/offset, so when 
you read in the data, use the short2flt function which will unpack the 
values and apply the scale/offset.  See:

https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Contributed/short2flt.shtml

Don

On 11/12/15 9:07 AM, Izidine Pinto wrote:
> Dear NCL users,
>
> I was wondering if anyone can help me solving my problem. It might be
> simple but I'm missing something.
> When I plot it in NCL I get big numbers of SSTs but when I plot in
> ferret I get what I expect (temperature range -2:34 degC)
> Please see attached the working example and the figure.
>
>
> Thank you
> Izidine
>
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