[Wrf-users] Save ncview movie?

[Dmitry Khvorostyanov]

Dear Tabish,

We use the Chimplot tool for this purpose: 
http://www.lmd.polytechnique.fr/chimplot/

This is a Python program to visualize outputs of the CHIMERE CTM model. 
It recognizes WRF files to make horizontal plots (lon/lat). If you want 
to plot vertical profiles or cross-sections though you'd need vertical 
coordinate in your file. So you can post-process the WRF output using 
the program prepwrf coming with CHIMERE.

To make animations the principle is simple: in the Animation Mode along 
any dimension (time for example), just press the <> button. This 
generates *.png figures for each data slice in the chosen (time) 
interval (for the whole range by default). Then you can use the convert 
command or any other program to unite your images into a *.gif animation.

Please feel free to ask me if you have any questions.

With best wishes, Dmitry


> Hi
>
> Ncview gives us nice animation when we press the play button and the
> variable is a function of time. However, is there a way to save this
> video as a clip maybe to show later in a presentation?
>
> Alternatively, is there any other tool for netcdf to visualize a 4-d or
> 3-d variable and save the movie?
>
> --
> Thanks & Regards
> Tabish Umar Ansari
> MS Research Scholar
> Environmental & Water Resources Engineering Division
> Department of Civil Engineering
> IIT Madras
>
>
>
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Dmitry Khvorostyanov
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