[ncl-talk] Fwd: Creating Skew-T Multi-panel Plot & CSV File

[Dennis Shea]

There are several issues with your code:

[1] You have 2 'do loops':
     One loop reads and writes values
     The 2nd is supposed to plot the values from the 5 grid points.
     You did not save the values in the 1st loop so you are using the last
values from the 1st loop.

     Punch line: You should have one loop.

[2]

You imported CAPE via

cape = f->CAPE_P0_L1_GLC0           ; array

It should be

cape = f->CAPE_P0_L1_GLC0(nt,nn,mm)      ; scalar

[3]

You tried to print cape as:  cape(lv)
This is wrong. cape does not have levels.

[4]

You did not have a required resource for paneling skewT:

 http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/skewt.shtml
See Example 5

skewtOpts at Panel           = True    ; Default is False

[5]
As noted in example 5, the paneling does not allow the wind speed and
direction to be included on paneled skewT. As noted in the example, the
'wmvect' output can not be paneled. This causes problems if you try to do
that.

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Really, for you, I think 'manual paneling' is appropriate. See Example 8.

I modified your code to do 4 of your 5 points. I just don;t have the time
to calculate where the 5th skewT should go. I also included a few other
changes.

FYI: I think 5 skewT plots would yield a figure with very small images.

See attached

Good luck


On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Michelle Serino <mmserino at tamu.edu> wrote:

> Good afternoon everyone,
>
> With NCL version 6.3.0, I am trying to create a plot consisting of 5
> skew-T panels with one panel at the top, two in the middle, and two on the
> bottom.  I am varying the coordinates for each panel, and having them
> plotted together makes comparing them easier.  I have attached my data (
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0VUa1xUjt5GTktLNnBpcjl0WGs/
> view?usp=sharing), code, and the resulting plot.  The problem I am having
> is getting the sounding for each set of coordinates to actually plot in
> each panel - currently, I have one sounding overlaid on five blank panels.
>
> Included in my code, I am saving the sounding data generated from the
> *first* set of coordinates to a csv file.  I am trying to add CAPE to the
> list of data that is written to the csv file, and I am having some trouble
> with that.
>
> For both issues, I imagine that the fixes are not too involved.  I am just
> having trouble getting there as I am not too strong in NCL.  I really
> appreciate the help!
>
> Michelle Serino
>
> Michelle M. Serino
> M.S. Candidate
> Texas A&M University
> Atmospheric Sciences Dept.
> Eller O&M, Suite 1017
> College Station, TX 77843
> (484) 769-0949
>
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