TIME LEVELS: FROM 1993-03-13_00:00:00 TO 1993-03-14_00:00:00 BY 21600 (A) PRESSURE LEVEL MANDATORY: FROM SFC TO PTOP (B) PRESSURE LEVEL NON STANDARD: FROM SFC TO PTOP BY 3 (C) SIGMA LEVEL: FROM 23 TO KMAX BY 5 (D) TITLE: MM5 Tutorial (E) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLOT | FIELD | UNITS | CONTOUR | SMOOTH || OVERLAY | UNITS |CONTOUR |SMOOTH T/F | | | INTERVAL | PASSES || FIELD | |INTERVAL|PASSES -----|-------|-------|----------|--------||---------|-------|--------|------- T | TER | m | 100 | 0 || | | | T | WIND | m/s | 5 | 0 || BARB | m/s | 2 | 0 TP500| HEIGHT| m | 30 | 0 || VOR |10**5/s| 0 | 0 TI305| PV | PVU | 1 | 0 || P | mb | 20 | 0 X | 5 | 5 | 23 | 8 || PSLV | mb | 2 | 0 X | THETA | K | 3 | 0 || CXW | m/s | 10 | 0 X | 5 | 18 | 23 | 5 || PSLV | mb | 2 | 0 X |THETA | K | 3 | 0 || CXW | m/s | 10 | 0 T |SKEWTLL|72469 DEN DENVER, CO |39.75 |-104.87 || | | | T |SKEWTXY|STATION IN (X,Y) | 19 | 30 || | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Description of Table Header Rows:
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(A)
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TIME
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with beginning and ending times given in YYYY-MM-DD_HH:MM:SS,
and time increment given in seconds defined by the number after BY. If
one doesn't use :SS, the increment should be in minutes, and if one doesn't
use :MM, then the increment should be in hours. `BY 0' means to plot every
output times.
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(B)
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MANDATORY
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used for pressure level dataset (such as from DATAGRID
and Rawins). Will plot every mandatory level from the maximum and minimum
level requested. ALL and NONE may also used to replace the entire string
after the colon.
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(C)
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NON STANDARD
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used for pressure level dataset. Will plot every
mandatory level from the maximum and minimum level requested. Optional
use of BY n will make plots at every n levels. ALL and NONE may also be
used to replace the entire string after the colon.
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(D)
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SIGMA
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used for ?-level data. Will plot the levels specified
by indexes (K=1 is at the top of the model). An increment is required,
and defined by the number after BY. Can also use ALL or NONE.
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(E)
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TITLE
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except for a colon (:), any alpha-numeric character
can be used to make a simple 1 line, 80 character title
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Description of Table Columns:
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PLOT
T/F
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True or False to plot this field. Removing the line
from the table has the same effect as F. If the user requests a cross section
plot, the letter is X. If the user requests a plot on pressure level, the
first 2 characters are TP, followed by the pressure value (TP500 is 500
mb level); if the user requests a plot on isentropic surface, the first
2 characters are TI, followed by the potential temperature value (TI330
is 330 K level). The last two options only work with ? data.
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FIELD
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a field name to be plotted. See complete list in
Tables 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3. If the field is a skew-T, the interpretation of
the following columns is changed (see the explanation below).
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UNITS
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units used on a plot. For some fields, there are
different standard units available. If you don't know the unit, use `?'.
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CONTOUR
INTERVAL
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real or integer values used to contour a plot. If
you don't know what contour interval to use, use `0'. For a vector field
(e.g. BARB), this value specifies the grid interval. For streamline field
(VESL), this value specifies how sparse or dense streamlines are drawn.
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SMOOTH
PASSES
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number of passes of the smoother-desmoother used
for each horizontal plot.
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OVERLAY
FIELD
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a field name for the overlay plot. May be left blank.
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* If the plot is a skew-T (SKEWTLL or SKEWTXY), the UNITS column is used to define location name, and lat/long or X/Y appear in the following two columns.
* For a cross-section plot, the location is defined by the 4 numbers in the columns following `X', and they are in the order of X1, Y1, X2, and Y2.