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19990126: 19990105: time sections...

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  • Subject: 19990126: 19990105: time sections...
  • Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 11:27:17 -0700
>From: Maureen Ballard <address@hidden>
>Organization: UK Ag Weather Center
>Keywords: 199901211845.LAA17989

>Steve,
>
>Finally getting a chance to get back to the experimentation with gdthgt and ha
> ve
>one question - is it possible to color the contours? The lines are nice, but c
> olor
>coordinating them would be nicer. Thanks! (somehow I am guessing that the answ
> er
>is no, but you never know until you ask!)
>
>Maureen
>

Maureen,

As you suspected, there isn't a contour fill option in either gdthgt or 
Garp's equivalent routine.

Steve Chiswell





>Unidata Support wrote:
>
>> >From: Maureen Ballard <address@hidden>
>> >Organization: UK Ag Weather Center
>> >Keywords: 199901051932.MAA09153
>>
>> >Well, we survived the year boundary with all the gempak scripts we have
>> >running - weren't reallly sure what to expect!
>> >
>> >Any way, I had started at looking how to do some time sections a month
>> >or so ago but got sidetracked. What I want to do is, for instance, using
>> >a model, plot the relh at all levels for one station over a period of
>> >time. I tried using GDTSERV but that only gives a time station for a
>> >specific level. Is there any program available that I can do this with?
>> >I wasn't able to find anything in the manual help pages online or
>> >searching through the mailing list. Any help would be appreciated.
>> >
>> >Thanks!!!
>> >
>> >Maureen
>> >
>> >--
>> >========================================================================
>> >
>> >Maureen Moore Ballard                   address@hidden
>> >Staff Meteorologist                           ph:  606-257-3000ext244
>> >Ag. Weather Center                         fax: 606-257-5671
>> >243 Ag. Engineering Bldg
>> >Dept. of Biosystems and Ag. Engr.
>> >University of Kentucky
>> >Lexington, KY 40546-0276
>> >HOMEPAGE   http://wwwagwx.ca.uky.edu
>> >=========================================================================
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> Maureen,
>>
>> You can plot a time series cross section for a model using the forecast time
> s
>> at a single station or point with the program GDTHGT (grid time vs height).
>>
>> For a Relh cross section for model forecast hours f000 through f048 for
>> today's 12Z eta for instance at SDF:
>>
>> GPOINT = SDF
>> GDATTIM = f000-f048
>> GFUNC = relh
>> GVCORD = pres
>> PTYPE = log
>> GVECT = obs
>> GDFILE   = $HDS/99010512_eta211.gem
>> etc.
>>
>> Steve Chiswell
>> Unidata User Support
>>
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