[ncl-talk] Fwd: Random file into polar coordinates

Dennis Shea shea at ucar.edu
Tue Nov 7 12:11:09 MST 2017


Please clarify your question:

re: "polar coordinates"

(a)  r,theta ?  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_coordinate_system
(b)  lat,lon ?

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Keren Rosado <keren.rosadova at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I have a file with observations for the entire globe for one hour period.
> Here are few lines from my txt (observations) files. The highlighted
> values are for lat and lon:
> 2010/08/28,04:00:00.356732, 11.7047, 133.9177,  4.8,  5
>
> 2010/08/28,04:00:00.629722, 36.7353,  52.1856, 26.8,  7
>
> 2010/08/28,04:00:00.559602, 36.8155,  52.2482,  3.3,  5
>
> 2010/08/28,04:00:00.922721,  4.8667, 105.7474,  8.3,  7
>
> 2010/08/28,04:00:00.130999, 22.7165,-105.1758, 24.9,  5
>
> 2010/08/28,04:00:00.400279, 11.7329, 133.9220, 16.3,  9
>
> 2010/08/28,04:00:01.330873, 21.6459,-105.0242,  7.3,  5
>
> 2010/08/28,04:00:01.409443, 28.4564, -90.7360,  9.7,  5
>
>
>
> I plotted these observations using ncl function gsn_add_polymarker for
> the domain I am interested in lat and lon.
>
>
> I will like to now how to transform the lat and lon to polar coordinates
> for the domain I am interested.
>
>
> Does anyone have an idea of how to to this?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
>
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