[ncl-talk] Overlay plot of vertical cross section of WRF derived U and precipitation using NCL

George Vandenberghe - NOAA Affiliate george.vandenberghe at noaa.gov
Mon Mar 1 09:23:17 MST 2021


OOPS wrong thread

On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 11:22 AM George Vandenberghe - NOAA Affiliate <
george.vandenberghe at noaa.gov> wrote:

> I don't have significant experience installing python packages and have
> not tried to develop it because it generally leads to new and more package
> requirements and admins eventually cracking down and saying they  won't
> support this.   I am forwarding to rdhpcs support who have experiience with
> this and also to someone who has downloaded and installed packages.
> Downloading and installing a package even into user controlled space  on
> WCOSS gets your account  suspended  so I just have not even thought about
> going there.
>
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 10:59 AM Rashed Mahmood via ncl-talk <
> ncl-talk at mailman.ucar.edu> wrote:
>
>> My mistake. I did not realize that you are trying to overlay an xy plot
>> on top of a contour plot which would not work as it is. Can you be more
>> specific what you are trying to do (what is the end goal here)?
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 11:24 AM Prasad Kunjeer <pskunjeer at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Sir,
>>>
>>> I have tried the solution, now there is single figure but precipitation
>>> is not plotted over it.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> प्रसाद कुंजीर / Prasad Kunjeer
>>> वैज्ञानिक - सी / Scientist - C
>>> केन्द्रीय जल और विद्युत अनुसंधान शाला / Central Water and Power
>>> Research Station
>>> पुणे 411 024/ Pune 411 024
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 12:38 AM Rashed Mahmood <rashidcomsis at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> You need set the following in the respective resources list:
>>>>
>>>> res at gsnDraw              = False             ; do not draw the plot
>>>> res at gsnFrame             = False             ; do not advance the frame
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> res_z at gsnDraw              = False             ; do not draw the plot
>>>> res_z at gsnFrame             = False             ; do not advance the
>>>> frame
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 7:47 PM Prasad Kunjeer via ncl-talk <
>>>> ncl-talk at mailman.ucar.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I am writing a script to overlay U wind and precipitation from the wrf
>>>>> run. My script is as below.
>>>>>
>>>>> ;----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> ; wrf_interp_3.ncl
>>>>> ;----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> ; Concepts illustrated:
>>>>> ;   - Interpolating a vertical cross-section from a 3D WRF-ARW field.
>>>>> ;----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> ; wrf_user_vert_cross and wrf_user_interp_level replace the
>>>>> ; deprecated wrf_user_intrp3d function.
>>>>> ;
>>>>> ; NCL V6.6.0 or higher is required to run this example.
>>>>> ;----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> begin
>>>>>   dir = "/media/prasad/C_Drive/2016/res/regrid_exp/"
>>>>>   a   = addfile(dir+"wrfout_d03_2016-06-30_17_00_00.nc","r")
>>>>>
>>>>>   z    = wrf_user_getvar(a, "z",0)          ; grid point height
>>>>>   qv   = wrf_user_getvar(a, "QVAPOR",0)     ; cloud field
>>>>>   lats = wrf_user_getvar(a, "lat",0)
>>>>>   lons = wrf_user_getvar(a, "lon",0)
>>>>>   pr   = wrf_user_getvar(a, "pressure",0)
>>>>>   ua   = wrf_user_getvar(a, "ua",0)
>>>>>   va   = wrf_user_getvar(a, "va",0)
>>>>>   wa   = wrf_user_getvar(a, "wa",0)
>>>>>
>>>>>   rain_exp = wrf_user_getvar(a,"RAINNC",0) / 25.4
>>>>>   rain_con = wrf_user_getvar(a,"RAINC", 0) / 25.4
>>>>>   rain_tot = (rain_exp + rain_con)
>>>>>   copy_VarMeta(rain_exp,rain_tot)
>>>>>
>>>>>   printVarSummary(rain_tot)
>>>>>   printVarSummary(rain_exp)
>>>>>   printMinMax(rain_tot,0)
>>>>>
>>>>>   xlon = wrf_user_getvar(a, "XLONG",0)
>>>>>
>>>>>   start_lat       = 29.75
>>>>>   end_lat         = 29.75
>>>>>   start_lon       = 77
>>>>>   end_lon         = 83
>>>>>   opt             = True
>>>>>   opt at latlon      = True
>>>>>   opt at linecoords  = True
>>>>>   opt at file_handle = a
>>>>>   qv_latlon       =
>>>>> wrf_user_vert_cross(ua,pr,(/start_lon,start_lat,end_lon,end_lat/),opt)
>>>>>
>>>>>   printVarSummary(ua)          ; [bottom_top | 31] x [south_north |
>>>>> 546] x [west_east | 480]
>>>>>   printVarSummary(qv_latlon)   ; [vertical | 100] x [cross_line_idx |
>>>>> 171]
>>>>>   printMinMax(ua,0)          ; [bottom_top | 31] x [south_north | 546]
>>>>> x [west_east | 480]
>>>>>   printMinMax(qv_latlon,0)   ; [vertical | 100] x [cross_line_idx |
>>>>> 171]
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ;---Interpolate the 2D Rain field to the lat/lon line
>>>>>   t2_line  =
>>>>> wrf_user_interp_line(rain_tot,(/start_lon,start_lat,end_lon,end_lat/),opt)
>>>>>   printVarSummary(t2_line)
>>>>>   long_line  =
>>>>> wrf_user_interp_line(xlon,(/start_lon,start_lat,end_lon,end_lat/),opt)
>>>>>
>>>>>   printMinMax(qv_latlon,0)
>>>>>   printMinMax(t2_line,0)
>>>>>   printMinMax(long_line,0)
>>>>>
>>>>>   wks = gsn_open_wks("png","wrf_interp_u_wind")
>>>>>
>>>>>   res                      = True
>>>>>   res at gsnMaximize          = True     ; maximize plot in frame
>>>>>   res at cnFillOn             = True     ; turn on contour fill
>>>>>   res at cnFillOpacityF       = 0.4
>>>>>   res at cnLinesOn            = False   ; turn off contour lines
>>>>>   res at cnLineLabelsOn       = False    ; turn off line labels
>>>>>   res at lbOrientation        = "Vertical"
>>>>>   res at lbLabelFontHeightF   = 0.01
>>>>>   res at tiMainString         = "Cross section from
>>>>> ("+start_lat+","+start_lon+ \
>>>>>                                            ") to ("+end_lat +
>>>>> ","+end_lon+")"
>>>>>   res at gsnStringFontHeightF = 0.015
>>>>>   res at tmXBLabelFontHeightF = 0.01
>>>>>   res at tmXBLabelAngleF      = 45.
>>>>>   res at trYReverse = True
>>>>>   ;res at gsnDraw              = False             ; do not draw the plot
>>>>>   ;res at gsnFrame             = False             ; do not advance the
>>>>> frame
>>>>>
>>>>> ;--Explicitly set lat/lon labels for X axis
>>>>>   xvalues = ispan(0,dimsizes(qv_latlon(0,:))-1,1)
>>>>>   ll_step = 15                                       ; step interval
>>>>> for tickmarks
>>>>>   res at tmXBMode          = "Explicit"
>>>>>   res at tmXBValues        = xvalues(::ll_step)
>>>>>   res at tmXBLabels        = sprintf("%6.2f",qv_latlon at lats(::ll_step))
>>>>> + "~S~o~N~N~C~" + \
>>>>>                           sprintf("%6.2f",qv_latlon at lons(::ll_step))
>>>>> + "~S~o~N~E"
>>>>>
>>>>>   plot = gsn_csm_contour(wks,qv_latlon,res)
>>>>>
>>>>>   res_z                      = res
>>>>>   res_z at cnFillOn             = False    ; turn on contour fill
>>>>>   res_z at cnLinesOn            = True   ; turn off contour lines
>>>>>   res_z at cnLineLabelsOn       = False    ; turn off line labels
>>>>>   res_z at trYReverse           = False
>>>>>   ;res_z at xyLineColors         = "blue"
>>>>>   res_z at xyLineThicknesses   = (/3.0/)              ; make line thicker
>>>>>   res_z at xyLineColors        = (/"green"/)          ; change line color
>>>>>
>>>>> ;--Explicitly set lat/lon labels for X axis
>>>>>   xvalues = ispan(0,dimsizes(long_line(:))-1,1)
>>>>>   ll_step = 15                                       ; step interval
>>>>> for tickmarks
>>>>>   res_z at tmXBMode          = "Explicit"
>>>>>   res_z at tmXBValues        = xvalues(::ll_step)
>>>>>   res_z at tmXBLabels        = sprintf("%6.2f",qv_latlon at lats(::ll_step))
>>>>> + "~S~o~N~N~C~" + \
>>>>>                           sprintf("%6.2f",qv_latlon at lons(::ll_step))
>>>>> + "~S~o~N~E"
>>>>>
>>>>>   plot_ov = gsn_csm_xy(wks,long_line,t2_line,res_z)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>   overlay(plot,plot_ov)                       ; overlay the U-wind
>>>>> plot on the temperature plot
>>>>>   draw(plot)                                  ; draw the temperature
>>>>> plot (with the rh plot overlaid)
>>>>>   frame(wks)                                  ; advance the frame
>>>>>
>>>>> end
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I am getting both precipitation and U wind plot but both on
>>>>> separate pages. I want to overlay them. The help is really appreciated
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> प्रसाद कुंजीर / Prasad Kunjeer
>>>>> वैज्ञानिक - सी / Scientist - C
>>>>> केन्द्रीय जल और विद्युत अनुसंधान शाला / Central Water and Power
>>>>> Research Station
>>>>> पुणे 411 024/ Pune 411 024
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