[ncl-talk] skewt_8.ncl sample input file

[Michael Weston]

Hi Guido

Thanks very much. Script worked well!

Regards
Mike

On 04/07/2016 16:24, Guido Cioni wrote:
> Hey Mike,
> the format of the input data file (in this case an ASCI file) needed 
> can vary a lot, but it must contain the variables required by the 
> skewT_PlotData function, i.e. air pressure, air temperature, air dew 
> point temperature, height, wind speed and wind direction. It doesn’t 
> matter how the file looks like, you just need to read the variable, do 
> the necessary conversion and then provide them to the function.
> For this reason, you don’t need all the columns present in the file 
> that you are mentioning…
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> I’m attaching an example script (really simple) and the datafile used 
> to plot a skew t diagram, hope that helps. I’ve taken the data from 
> the Wyoming university website, but as you can see in the script most 
> of the columns are not even used.
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> Guido Cioni
> http://guidocioni.altervista.org
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>> On 04 Jul 2016, at 13:33, Michael Weston <mjweston at masdar.ac.ae 
>> <mailto:mjweston at masdar.ac.ae>> wrote:
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>> Can anyone please provide a description of the variables in the ascii 
>> file at the following link.
>>
>> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/Data/asc/sounding.testdata
>>
>> I have data for a site that I would like to plot using skewt_8 and I 
>> will need to format it as the testdata.
>> Do other versions of skewt accept ascii as input?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Mike
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