;******************************************************** ; Plot storm stracks from wrfout files. ;******************************************************** ; ; JUN-18-2005 ; So-Young Ha (MMM/NCAR) ; SEP-01-2006 ; Slightly modified by Mary Haley to add some extra comments. ; =========================================== load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl" load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_csm.ncl" load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/contributed.ncl" load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/wrf/WRF_contributed.ncl" load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/wrf/WRFUserARW.ncl" begin ; DATES date = (/1512,1600,1612,1700,1712,1800,1812,1900/) ndate = dimsizes(date) sdate = sprinti("%4.0i",date) ; Experiment name (for legend) EXP = (/"EXP_I"/) ; (/"EXP_I","EXP_II","EXP_III"/) nexp = dimsizes(EXP) ; To get lat/lon info. a = addfile("wrfout_d01_2003-07-15_00:00:00.nc","r") lat2d = a->XLAT(0,:,:) lon2d = a->XLONG(0,:,:) dimll = dimsizes(lat2d) nlat = dimll(0) mlon = dimll(1) ; Sea Level Pressure slp = wrf_user_getvar(a,"slp",0) dims = dimsizes(slp) ; Array for track time = new(ndate,string) imin = new(ndate,integer) jmin = new(ndate,integer) smin = new(ndate,integer) ; ======= ; ndate ; ======= fs = systemfunc("ls wrfout*00") nfs= dimsizes(fs) if(nfs .ne. ndate) then print("Check input data:"+nfs+" .ne. "+ndate) end if do ifs=0,nfs-1 f = addfile(fs(ifs)+".nc","r") time(ifs) = wrf_user_list_times(f) ; print(time(ifs)) slp2d = wrf_user_getvar(f,"slp",0) ; We need to convert 2-D array to 1-D array to find the minima. slp1d = ndtooned(slp2d) smin(ifs) = minind(slp1d) ; Convert the index for 1-D array back to the indeces for 2-D array. minij = ind_resolve(ind(slp1d.eq.min(slp2d)),dims) imin(ifs) = minij(0,0) jmin(ifs) = minij(0,1) ; print(time(ifs)+" : "+min(slp2d)+" ("+imin(ifs)+","+jmin(ifs)+")") end do ; ; Graphics section wks=gsn_open_wks("ps","track") ; Open PS file. gsn_define_colormap(wks,"BlGrYeOrReVi200") ; Change color map. res = True res@gsnDraw = False ; Turn off draw. res@gsnFrame = False ; Turn off frame advance. res@gsnMaximize = True ; Maximize plot in frame. res@tiMainString = "Hurricane Isabel" ; Main title WRF_map_c(a,res,0) ; Set up map resources ; (plot options) plot = gsn_csm_map(wks,res) ; Create a map. ; Set up resources for polymarkers. gsres = True gsres@gsMarkerIndex = 16 ; filled dot ;gsres@gsMarkerSizeF = 0.005 ; default - 0.007 cols = (/5,160,40/) ; Set up resources for polylines. res_lines = True res_lines@gsLineThicknessF = 3. ; 3x as thick dot = new(ndate,graphic) ; Make sure each gsn_add_polyxxx call line = new(ndate,graphic) ; is assigned to a unique variable. ; Loop through each date and add polylines to the plot. do i = 0,ndate-2 res_lines@gsLineColor = cols(0) xx=(/lon2d(imin(i),jmin(i)),lon2d(imin(i+1),jmin(i+1))/) yy=(/lat2d(imin(i),jmin(i)),lat2d(imin(i+1),jmin(i+1))/) line(i) = gsn_add_polyline(wks,plot,xx,yy,res_lines) end do lon1d = ndtooned(lon2d) lat1d = ndtooned(lat2d) ; Loop through each date and add polymarkers to the plot. do i = 0,ndate-1 print("dot:"+lon1d(smin(i))+","+lat1d(smin(i))) gsres@gsMarkerColor = cols(0) dot(i)=gsn_add_polymarker(wks,plot,lon1d(smin(i)),lat1d(smin(i)),gsres) end do ; Date (Legend) txres = True txres@txFontHeightF = 0.015 txres@txFontColor = cols(0) txid1 = new(ndate,graphic) ; Loop through each date and draw a text string on the plot. do i = 0, ndate-1 txres@txJust = "CenterRight" ix = smin(i) - 4 print("Eye:"+ix) if(i.eq.1) then txres@txJust = "CenterLeft" ix = ix + 8 end if txid1(i) = gsn_add_text(wks,plot,sdate(i),lon1d(ix),lat1d(ix),txres) end do ; Add marker and text for legend. (Or you can just use "pmLegend" instead.) txres@txJust = "CenterLeft" txid2 = new(nexp,graphic) pmid2 = new(nexp,graphic) do i = 0,nexp-1 gsres@gsMarkerColor = cols(i) txres@txFontColor = cols(i) ii = ((/129,119,109/)) ; ilat jj = ((/110,110,110/)) ; jlon ji = ii*mlon+jj ; col x row pmid2(i) = gsn_add_polymarker(wks,plot,lon1d(ji(i)),lat1d(ji(i)),gsres) txid2(i) = gsn_add_text(wks,plot,EXP(i),lon1d(ji(i)+5),lat1d(ji(i)),txres) end do draw(plot) frame(wks) end