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20021227: plotting Pibal profiles (fwd)

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  • Subject: 20021227: plotting Pibal profiles (fwd)
  • Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 11:09:21 -0700
>From: Darren Gallant <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200212271640.gBRGeJt25088

>
>Dear Unidata Support,
>
>I need to create some wind only profiles derived from Pibal files.
>The only parmaters in the files are station name, latitude, longitude,
>station elevation, and UWND,VWND,DRCT, and SPED, at various heights
>(HGHT). Which program should I use: snprof, setting ptype=lin,acplot
>(where I must create a ship formatted file) or is there another program which
>would work?
>
>Thanks
>
>Darren
>
>
>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,

I would suggest creating a merged sounding file, just as the profiler
data has only winds at height levels. Plot with vcoord=hght.

Steve Chiswell