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[IDV #KPC-692192]: Calculate Potential Temperature

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  • Subject: [IDV #KPC-692192]: Calculate Potential Temperature
  • Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 09:07:13 -0600
Hi Greg-

> Trying to calculate potential temperature from a NAM 12km grib file. Did a 
> search of support tickets but could not find anything. Would like to be able 
> to do a cross-section of potential temperature.

I just did this from the NAM 12km data we have on motherlode.  

When you load up that dataset, you should see a Derived field
for Potential Temperature under 3D grid->Temperature->Derived

Note with this high resolution a dataset, the calculation is
compute intensive.

Is your grib file Grib 1 or 2?  Does it have a pressure vertical
dimension?  We need that for the calculation.  Are you getting
an error, or do you just want to know how to do this?

Don 


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: KPC-692192
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open