Greetings!
My apologies for the confusion. MetPy's "Combined Plotting" example is plotting contours of temperature (at the 850 hPa pressure level) on top of the Geopotential Height (again of the 850 hPa fixed pressure level). The native format of NARR gridded data is GRIB and can be found here:
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/thredds/catalog/model/narr.html
Using this THREDDS server, in addition to downloading the raw files (using HTTPServer), you can also get a link for accessing using the OPENDAP protocol (can be given directly to `xarray.open_dataset()`) or download a subset in netCDF format using the NetCDF Subset Service.
I'm surprised MetPy's `narr_example.nc` doesn't load with QGis, or especially Panoply, since this is a CF-compatible netCDF file.
Hope this helps,
Ryan
Hi Ryan,
My new question did not involve the old issues with the surface wx map -- it was entirely different and involved the sample program which seems to use a NARR pressure file; but doesn't...it shows an overlay of a pressure field on a temperature field...
Sorry to be so much trouble...
Regards,
Max
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