WRF ARW User's Guide - MMM - UCAR

POST-PROCESSING
"mdate" times (i.e. YYMMDDHH). Either ptimes
or iptimes can be used, but not both. You can plot
all available times, by omitting both ptimes and
iptimes from the namelist, or by setting the first
value negative.
tacc 1.0 Time tolerance in seconds.
Any time in the model output that is within tacc
seconds of the time specified in ptimes/iptimes
will be processed.
flmin, flmax, .05, .95, Left, right,
fbmin, ftmax .10, .90 bottom and top frame limit
ntextq 0 Text quality specifier (0=high; 1=medium;
2=low).
ntextcd 0 Text font specifier [0=complex (Times);
1=duplex (Helvetica)].
fcoffset 0.0 This is an optional parameter you can use to "tell"
RIP that you consider the start of the forecast to
be different from what is indicated by the forecast
time recorded in the model output. Examples:
fcoffset=12 means you consider hour 12 in the
model output to be the beginning of the true
forecast.
idotser 0 Generate time series output files (no plots) only
an ASCII file that can be used as input to a
plotting program.
idescriptive 1 Use more descriptive plot titles.
icgmsplit 0 Split metacode into several files.
maxfld 10 Reserve memory for RIP.
ittrajcalc 0 Generate trajectory output files (use namelist
trajcalc when this is set).
imakev5d 0 Generate output for Vis5D
ncarg_type ‘cgm’ Output type required. Options are ‘cgm’ (default),
‘ps’, ‘pdf’, ‘pdfL’, ‘x11’. Where ‘pdf’ is portrait
and ‘pdfL’ is landscape.
istopmiss 1 This switch determines the behavior for RIP when
a user-requested field is not available. The default
is to stop. Setting the switch to 0 tells RIP to
ignore the missing field and to continue plotting.
rip_root ‘/dev/null’ Overwrite the environment variable RIP_ROOT.
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