[ncl-talk] Plot *.dat format data

[Mary Haley]

Xi,

I noticed that this website provided ASCII data, so I chose to use that
instead of the binary data:

ftp://sparc-ftp1.ceda.ac.uk/sparc/ref_clim/randel/temp_wind/

It's pretty easy to read this data using NCL's "asciiread" function:

temp = asciiread("temp.ascii",(/33,41,12/),"float") ; lev x lat x time
wind = asciiread("wind.ascii",(/46,41,12/),"float")

Note the ordering is opposite of the Fortran code they provide in the
README file.

I've attached two scripts, one that does a very basic read of your data and
a series of plots, and one that is much more customized, in that it creates
the time, lat, and level coordinates for your data and does a 3 x 4 panel
plot of both sets of variables.

If you are new to NCL, please see:

DKRZ: NCL Tutorial Version 1.1
<https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8357888/homepage/tutoriais/ncl/NCL_Tutorial_V1.1.pdf>

--Mary



On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Xi Chang <xi.chang01 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear NCL,
>
> Im wondering how to plot the zonal mean wind and temperature
> from SPARC dataset here
> http://www.sparc-climate.org/data-center/data-access/reference-climatologies/randels-climatologies/temperature-wind-climatology/
> with a format *wind.dat* dan *temp.dat* using NCL?
>
> Anyhelp would be really appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Xi Chang.
>
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