[ncl-talk] Plotting vertical profiles from sounding data

Dennis Shea shea at ucar.edu
Wed Jun 24 21:43:06 MDT 2020


I think you should examine your data.

sounding_1.txt has a value of pressure below 0  [-62]

I only looked at sounding_1.ncl

The attached can be used as a basis for you plotting.

%> ncl vert_profile_shum.ncl

Good Luck

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 11:15 AM Lyndz via ncl-talk <
ncl-talk at mailman.ucar.edu> wrote:

> Dear NCL-experts,
>
> I want to:
>
> [1] plot the vertical profile of specific humidity from sounding data.
> Input file: *sounding_1.txt*.
> Attached is my script: *vert_profile_shum.ncl*
>
> I want the y-axis to be in log format but I can not plot this correctly.
> The output is also not good.
>
> I got the following warning messages:
>
> *warning:XyPlotSetValues:xyYStyle is NhlLOG:trYMinF can't be <=
> 0.0:Setting xyComputeYMin to True*
>
> *warning:XyPlotSetValues:The Minimum Y value is <= 0.0 NhlLOG
> invalid:Changing xyYStyle to NhlLINEAR*
>
> ------------------------------
>
>
> [2] In addition, I have another sounding data with different pressure
> level and height: *sounding_2.txt*
>
>
> I want to combine the two profiles in one plot but I am not sure how to do
> this.
>
>
>
> I'll appreciate any help on this.
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Lyndz
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