WRF ARW User's Guide - MMM - UCAR

POST-PROCESSING
slp - sea level pressure
umet and vmet - winds rotated to earth coordinates
u10m and v10m - 10m winds rotated to earth coordinates
wdir - wind direction
wspd - wind speed coordinates
wd10 - 10m wind direction
ws10 - 10m wind speed
Run ARWpost
Type:
./ARWpost.exe
This will create output_root_name.dat and output_root_name.ctl files if creating GrADS
input, and output_root_name.v5d, if creating Vis5D input.
NOW YOU ARE READY TO VIEW THE OUTPUT
GrADS
For general information about working with GrADS, view the GrADS home
page: http://grads.iges.org/grads/
To help users get started a number of GrADS scripts have been provided:
• The scripts are all available in the scripts/ directory.
• The scripts provided are only examples of the type of plots one can generate with
GrADS data.
• The user will need to modify these scripts to suit their data (e.g., if you did not
specify 0.25 km and 2 km as levels to interpolate to when you run the "bwave"
data through the converter, the "bwave.gs" script will not display any plots, since
it will specifically look for these to levels).
• Scripts must be copied to the location of the input data.
GENERAL SCRIPTS
cbar.gs Plot color bar on shaded plots (from GrADS home page)
rgbset.gs Some extra colors (Users can add/change colors from color number 20
to 99)
skew.gs Program to plot a skewT
TO RUN TYPE: run skew.gs (needs pressure level TC,TD,U,V as input)
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