; Example script to produce plots for a WRF real-data run, ; with the ARW coordinate dynamics option. ; Interpolating to specified pressure levels load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl" load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/wrf/WRFUserARW.ncl" begin ; ; The WRF ARW input file. ; This needs to have a ".nc" appended, so just do it. a = addfile("../wrfout_d01_2000-01-24_12:00:00.nc","r") ; We generate plots, but what kind do we prefer? type = "x11" ; type = "pdf" ; type = "ps" ; type = "ncgm" wks = gsn_open_wks(type,"plt_PressureLevel1") ; Set some Basic Plot options res = True res@MainTitle = "REAL-TIME WRF" res@Footer = False pltres = True mpres = True mpres@mpGeophysicalLineColor = "Black" mpres@mpNationalLineColor = "Black" mpres@mpUSStateLineColor = "Black" mpres@mpGridLineColor = "Black" mpres@mpLimbLineColor = "Black" mpres@mpPerimLineColor = "Black" mpres@mpGeophysicalLineThicknessF = 2.0 mpres@mpGridLineThicknessF = 2.0 mpres@mpLimbLineThicknessF = 2.0 mpres@mpNationalLineThicknessF = 2.0 mpres@mpUSStateLineThicknessF = 2.0 ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; What times and how many time steps are in the data set? times = wrf_user_getvar(a,"times",-1) ; get all times in the file ntimes = dimsizes(times) ; number of times in the file ; The specific pressure levels that we want the data interpolated to. pressure_levels = (/ 850., 700., 500., 300./) ; pressure levels to plot nlevels = dimsizes(pressure_levels) ; number of pressure levels ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; do it = 0,ntimes-1,2 ; TIME LOOP print("Working on time: " + times(it) ) res@TimeLabel = times(it) ; Set Valid time to use on plots ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; First get the variables we will need tc = wrf_user_getvar(a,"tc",it) ; T in C u = wrf_user_getvar(a,"ua",it) ; u averaged to mass points v = wrf_user_getvar(a,"va",it) ; v averaged to mass points p = wrf_user_getvar(a, "pressure",it) ; pressure is our vertical coordinate z = wrf_user_getvar(a, "z",it) ; grid point height rh = wrf_user_getvar(a,"rh",it) ; relative humidity ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; do level = 0,nlevels-1 ; LOOP OVER LEVELS pressure = pressure_levels(level) tc_plane = wrf_user_intrp3d(tc,p,"h",pressure,0.,False) z_plane = wrf_user_intrp3d( z,p,"h",pressure,0.,False) rh_plane = wrf_user_intrp3d(rh,p,"h",pressure,0.,False) u_plane = wrf_user_intrp3d( u,p,"h",pressure,0.,False) v_plane = wrf_user_intrp3d( v,p,"h",pressure,0.,False) spd = (u_plane*u_plane + v_plane*v_plane)^(0.5) ; m/sec spd@description = "Wind Speed" spd@units = "m/s" u_plane = u_plane*1.94386 ; kts v_plane = v_plane*1.94386 ; kts u_plane@units = "kts" v_plane@units = "kts" ; Plotting options for T opts = res opts@cnLineColor = "Red" opts@ContourParameters = (/ 5.0 /) opts@cnInfoLabelOrthogonalPosF = 0.07 ; offset second label information opts@gsnContourLineThicknessesScale = 2.0 contour_tc = wrf_contour(a,wks,tc_plane,opts) delete(opts) ; Plotting options for RH opts = res opts@cnFillOn = True opts@pmLabelBarOrthogonalPosF = -0.1 opts@ContourParameters = (/ 10., 90., 10./) opts@cnFillColors = (/"White","White","White", \ "White","Chartreuse","Green",\ "Green3","Green4", \ "ForestGreen","PaleGreen4"/) contour_rh = wrf_contour(a,wks,rh_plane,opts) delete(opts) ; Plotting options for Wind Speed opts = res opts@cnLineColor = "MediumSeaGreen" opts@ContourParameters = (/ 10. /) opts@cnInfoLabelOrthogonalPosF = 0.07 ; offset second label information opts@gsnContourLineThicknessesScale = 3.0 contour_spd = wrf_contour(a,wks,spd,opts) delete(opts) ; Plotting options for Wind Vectors opts = res opts@FieldTitle = "Wind" ; overwrite Field Title opts@NumVectors = 47 ; wind barb density vector = wrf_vector(a,wks,u_plane,v_plane,opts) delete(opts) ; Plotting options for Geopotential Heigh opts_z = res opts_z@cnLineColor = "Blue" opts_z@gsnContourLineThicknessesScale = 3.0 ; MAKE PLOTS if ( pressure .eq. 850 ) then ; plot temp, rh, height, wind barbs opts_z@ContourParameters = (/ 20.0 /) contour_height = wrf_contour(a,wks,z_plane,opts_z) plot = wrf_map_overlays(a,wks,(/contour_rh,contour_tc,contour_height, \ vector/),pltres,mpres) end if if ( pressure .eq. 700 ) then ; plot temp, height, wind barbs opts_z@ContourParameters = (/ 30.0 /) contour_height = wrf_contour(a,wks, z_plane,opts_z) plot = wrf_map_overlays(a,wks,(/contour_tc,contour_height, \ vector/),pltres,mpres) end if if ( pressure .eq. 500 ) then ; plot temp, height, wind barbs opts_z@ContourParameters = (/ 60.0 /) contour_height = wrf_contour(a,wks, z_plane,opts_z) plot = wrf_map_overlays(a,wks,(/contour_tc,contour_height, \ vector/),pltres,mpres) end if if ( pressure .eq. 300 ) then ; plot windspeed, height, wind barbs opts_z@ContourParameters = (/ 60.0 /) contour_height = wrf_contour(a,wks, z_plane,opts_z) plot = wrf_map_overlays(a,wks,(/contour_spd,contour_height, \ vector/),pltres,mpres) end if delete(opts_z) end do ; END OF LEVEL LOOP ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; end do ; END OF TIME LOOP end