[ncl-talk] Trying to understand code in NCL example documentation...

[Adam Phillips]

Hi Srishti,
That snippet of code is assigning coordinate variables (hgt and xcoord) to
each dimension of the depol array. See page 11 of the NCL User's Guide here:
http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Manuals/NCL_User_Guide/NCL_User_Guide_v1.1_Legal.pdf
Adam

On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 10:30 AM Srishti Dasarathy <srdasara at ucsd.edu>
wrote:

> Dear NCL-talk community,
>
> I have a bit of an unusual question. I'm currently in the midst of
> transferring my code over to MATLAB for various reasons, but I'm having
> trouble understanding the syntax of certain sections pasted here
> <https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/calipso.shtml> under
> calipso_3.ncl. I was wondering if you can help me understand what is going
> on.
>
> I am trying to produce a similar imagine in MATLAB, but do not understand
> these lines completely even after looking at the documentation.
>
> The lines I'm struggling to understand are below:
>
> ;----------------------------------------------
> ;  ASSIGN NEW DIMENSIONS AND ATTRIBUTES TO COORDINATE CALIPSO DATA WITH  ;  ALTITUDE
> ;----------------------------------------------
>    depol!0   = "hgt"
>    depol&hgt =  hgt
>    xcoord    = ispan(0,dimsizes(lat(:,0)) - 1,1)
>    depol!1   = "xcoord"
>    depol&xcoord = xcoord
>
>
> I understand that hgt is the array of altitude values, but I do not
> understand how depolorization is getting associated with either hgt or
> xcoord.
>
> If anyone has any guidance on understanding this code example so that I
> can logically transfer the syntax to MATLAB, I'd really appreciate it!
>
> Thank you,
> Srishti Dasarathy
>
> --
> Srishti Dasarathy
> Graduate Student
> Integrative Oceanography Division
> Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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