[ncl-talk] Fwd: Make a plot

[Kwesi Quagraine]

Hello Mary, thanks for the reply, I can make the plot as you have attached
but the challenge was how to make the plot with dates on the label bar
indicating the dates as attached.

Kwesi

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 6:52 PM, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Kwesi,
>
> If you are new to NCL, I suggest that you start by looking at this
> tutorial:
>
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8357888/homepage/
> tutoriais/ncl/NCL_Tutorial_V1.1.pdf
>
> It's a very nice step-by-step tutorial on how to create NCL graphics. This
> tutorial starts off with simple examples and then gradually moves onto more
> complex examples.
>
> To see some basic examples of plotting data over a map, go to our examples
> page:
>
> "Plotting data on a map"
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/plot_data_on_map.shtml
>
> This gives you an overview of how to understand your data so you know how
> to plot it correctly.  You have data on a rectilinear grid, which is
> usually the easiest kind of data to plot, because the lat/lon arrays
> associated with your data are actually attached to the variable when you
> read the data in.
>
> Please see the attached script, which I started for you, based on examples
> dataonamap_1.ncl and dataonamap_7.ncl.
>
> Hopefully you can take it from here, by reading the above tutorial, and
> looking over some of the examples on our website:
>
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/
>
> You may also want to see our examples page that is specifically for
> precipitation:
>
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/HiResPrc.shtml
>
> It says "high-res" on the page, but really, you can use this for low
> resolution too.
>
> --Mary
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 1:59 AM, Kwesi Quagraine <starskykwesi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello was wondering if anyone could help me with this? thanks
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Kwesi Quagraine <starskykwesi at gmail.com>
>> Date: Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 1:45 PM
>> Subject: Make a plot
>> To: "ncl-talk at ucar.edu" <ncl-talk at ucar.edu>
>>
>>
>> Hello NCLers, I want to make a plot similar to the one attached with the
>> data attached as well. I will be grateful if someone can  point me in a
>> direction. Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kwesi
>>
>>
>> var summary;
>> Variable: pr
>> Type: float
>> Total Size: 22296240 bytes
>>             5574060 values
>> Number of Dimensions: 3
>> Dimensions and sizes:    [time | 180] x [lat | 179] x [lon | 173]
>> Coordinates:
>>             time: [15011.5..20455.5]
>>             lat: [-46.25..42.75]
>>             lon: [-25.25..60.75]
>> Number Of Attributes: 5
>>   standard_name :    precipitation_flux
>>   long_name :    Precipitation
>>   units :    kg m-2 s-1
>>   _FillValue :    1e+20
>>   cell_methods :    time: mean
>> (0)    Precipitation (kg m-2 s-1) : min=0   max=0.00116586
>>
>> --
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>> Einstein
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>> Einstein
>>
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University of Cape Coast|College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences|Department
of Physics|
Team Leader|Recycle Up! Ghana|Technology Without Borders|
Other emails: kwesi.quagraine at ucc.edu.gh|kwesi.quagraine at teog.de|
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