; Example script to produce plots for a WRF real-data run, ; with the ARW coordinate dynamics option. ; Plot data on a cross section ; This script will plot data at a set angle through a specified point load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl" load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/wrf/WRFUserARW.ncl" begin ; ; The WRF ARW input file. ; This needs to have a ".nc" appended, so just do it. a = addfile("../wrfout_d01_2000-01-24_12:00:00.nc","r") ; We generate plots, but what kind do we prefer? type = "x11" ; type = "pdf" ; type = "ps" ; type = "ncgm" wks = gsn_open_wks(type,"plt_CrossSection1") ; Set some basic resources res = True res@MainTitle = "REAL-TIME WRF" res@Footer = False pltres = True ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; FirstTime = True times = wrf_user_getvar(a,"times",-1) ; get times in the file ntimes = dimsizes(times) ; number of times in the file mdims = getfilevardimsizes(a,"P") ; get some dimension sizes for the file nd = dimsizes(mdims) ;--------------------------------------------------------------- do it = 0,ntimes-1,2 ; TIME LOOP print("Working on time: " + times(it) ) res@TimeLabel = times(it) ; Set Valid time to use on plots tc = wrf_user_getvar(a,"tc",it) ; T in C rh = wrf_user_getvar(a,"rh",it) ; relative humidity z = wrf_user_getvar(a, "z",it) ; grid point height if ( FirstTime ) then ; get height info for labels zmin = 0. zmax = max(z)/1000. nz = floattoint(zmax/2 + 1) FirstTime = False end if ;--------------------------------------------------------------- do ip = 1, 3 ; we are doing 3 plots ; all with the pivot point (plane) in the center of the domain ; at angles 0, 45 and 90 ; ; | ; angle=0 is | ; | ; if(ip .eq. 1) then angle = 90. end if if(ip .eq. 2) then angle = 0. end if if(ip .eq. 3) then angle = 45. end if plane = new(2,float) plane = (/ mdims(nd-1)/2, mdims(nd-2)/2 /) ; pivot point is center of domain (x,y) opts = False rh_plane = wrf_user_intrp3d(rh,z,"v",plane,angle,opts) tc_plane = wrf_user_intrp3d(tc,z,"v",plane,angle,opts) dim = dimsizes(rh_plane) ; Find the data span - for use in labels zspan = dim(0) ; Options for XY Plots opts_xy = res opts_xy@tiYAxisString = "Height (km)" opts_xy@cnMissingValPerimOn = True opts_xy@cnMissingValFillColor = 0 opts_xy@cnMissingValFillPattern = 11 opts_xy@tmYLMode = "Explicit" opts_xy@tmYLValues = fspan(0,zspan,nz) ; Create tick marks opts_xy@tmYLLabels = sprintf("%.1f",fspan(zmin,zmax,nz)) ; Create labels opts_xy@tiXAxisFontHeightF = 0.020 opts_xy@tiYAxisFontHeightF = 0.020 opts_xy@tmXBMajorLengthF = 0.02 opts_xy@tmYLMajorLengthF = 0.02 opts_xy@tmYLLabelFontHeightF = 0.015 opts_xy@PlotOrientation = tc_plane@Orientation ; Plotting options for RH opts_rh = opts_xy opts_rh@ContourParameters = (/ 10., 90., 10. /) opts_rh@pmLabelBarOrthogonalPosF = -0.07 opts_rh@cnFillOn = True opts_rh@cnFillColors = (/"White","White","White", \ "White","Chartreuse","Green", \ "Green3","Green4", \ "ForestGreen","PaleGreen4"/) ; Plotting options for Temperature opts_tc = opts_xy opts_tc@cnInfoLabelOrthogonalPosF = 0.00 opts_tc@ContourParameters = (/ 5. /) ; Get the contour info for the rh and temp contour_tc = wrf_contour(a,wks,tc_plane,opts_tc) contour_rh = wrf_contour(a,wks,rh_plane,opts_rh) ; MAKE PLOTS plot = wrf_overlays(a,wks,(/contour_rh,contour_tc/),pltres) ; Delete options and fields, so we don't have carry over delete(opts_tc) delete(opts_rh) delete(tc_plane) delete(rh_plane) end do ; make next cross section ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; end do ; END OF TIME LOOP end