Tag: 2016

GrADS Tutorial George Mason University ~ tutorial A text file containing the contents of this tutorial This example data set is a a binary data file containing sample model output and data descriptor file a text file that contains the necessary metadata that GrADS needs

Climate Prediction Center GrADS Scripts ~ GrADS Scripts Some people are lazy and lazy people write scripts Here are some of my GrADS scripts is a script to help plot time series of monthly fields For example you have 40 years of monthly data and you just want to plot a time series of January values Instructions are included is a script to change the type of map The script is easy to use just type run map and answer the prompt

GrADS Commands George Mason University ~ GrADS Commands Sorted by Attribute Animation set loopdim Sets dimension to animate set loopincr Sets looping increment set looping Turns on animation when fewer than three dimesions are varying set dbuff Turns onoff double buffer mode swap Swaps buffers when in double buffer mode Annotation and Labeling draw string Draws a string anywhere on the page

GrADSaholic Script Easily create scatter ~ Script Easily create scatter plots with regression lines in GrADS This script not only makes it possible but easy to plot 2D scatter or line plots in GrADS using user specified arrays That is there is no requirement than an outside file be open and the display command is not needed or used

ESRL PSD netCDF Tools ~ plotgsncsmcontourmapcewks slp0 False create a default ce plot For unpacked files in our collection the line with short2flt in it should be changed to slpfslp Further examples of NCL use are available

Bin Guans GrADS Script Library bGASL UCLA ~ GrADS scripts for advanced data analysis and visualization Written by Dr Bin Guan climate scientist and GrADS enthusiast at UCLA and NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory

GrADSaholic TutorialTwo methods to plot more than one ~ TutorialTwo methods to plot more than one shaded variable on the same map using GrADS Plotting more than one shaded variable on the same map can prove frustrating as the new shaded variable continually plots over the old variable even where the new variable is below the minimum value

Grads plotting data from different files different points ~ I am using grads to plot data and it works fine if I plot data from 1 timestep 1 file on a map So my first try was to open the first 2 files and to make a shaded plot showing areas with the same wind speed in the same color