20000824: Creating vertical profiles from gridded Model Data

>From: Darren Gallant <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200008241951.e7OJpYN27174

>Dear Unidata support,
>
>I want to create vertical profiles of wind, temperature, and dew point at 
>specific pressure levels for points contained within a model grid. Is
>there a way using GEMPAK GD* routines this can be done? Using gdlist, I
>can extract data for many grid points but only for one parameter or a
>parameter which uses inputs from two levels.
>
>Thanks 
>
>Darren R. Gallant              UCAR/JOSS
>Programmer/Technician           Joint OfFice Of Science Support
>303-497-2634                    P.O. Box 3000
>address@hidden                Boulder,CO 80307-30000
>
>


Darren,

Do you mean a vertical profile plot like gdprof provides? Skew-t or x/y plot
at a point?

The only catch with gdprof is you have to run it twice, 1 for temp and
a second time (with clear=no for dewpoint).

Steve Chiswell