; 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_CrossSection_1") ; Set some basic resources res = True res@MainTitle = "REAL-TIME WRF" res@Footer = False pltres = 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 ; First get the variables we will need 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 ;--------------------------------------------------------------- ; Plot a cross session that run south-north through the middle of the plot ; For this we need a pivot point and a angle ; | ; angle=0 is | ; | ; angle = 0 plane = new(2,float) plane = (/ mdims(nd-1)/2, mdims(nd-2)/2 /) ; pivot point is center of domain (x,y) opts = False ; start and end points not specified rh_plane = wrf_user_intrp3d(rh,z,"v",plane,angle,opts) tc_plane = wrf_user_intrp3d(tc,z,"v",plane,angle,opts) ; Plotting options for RH opts_rh = res 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 = res 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) ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; end do ; END OF TIME LOOP end