Surface Divergence

[Chris Lander]

Thanks to everyone who responded,

I got it working. 

Chris


Steve Chiswell wrote:
> Chris,
>
> Try setting SCALE=999 to let GEMPAK scale the data rather than
> trying to plot values on the order of E-10 (or set SCALE to
> an appropriate order of magnitude once you have a feeling of the typical
> data range).
>
> With CINT = blank as you have, the package will try to create around 16
> contour
> levels, but in a loop of times, consistent scaling and contour intervals
> is best.
>
> Steve Chiswell
> Unidata User Support 
>
>
> On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 19:23 -0230, Chris Lander wrote:
>   
>> I'm trying to display surface divergence and convergence (technically 
>> speaking it is at 10m) from the CMC Regional model. Can someone look at 
>> my restore file and tell me what I am doing wrong?  All I get when it 
>> plots is a lot contours with a value of -2.9E-10.  What I am looking for 
>> is a contour plot highlighting areas of maximum convergence and 
>> divergence at the surface.
>>
>> Regards
>> Chris
>>
>>
>> plain text document attachment (sfc_div)
>> !
>> ! Restore File : sfc_div
>> !                Surface divergence for the CMC Regional model
>> !
>> ! Log:
>> ! J.W. Carr/HPC 	 4/98	Initial creation
>> !
>> GDATTIM fall
>> GLEVEL  10
>> GVCORD  hght
>> PANEL   0                                                                       
>> SKIP    0
>> SCALE   0
>> GDPFUN  div(wnd)
>> TYPE    c
>> CONTUR  1      
>> CINT    
>> LINE    4/1/1         
>> FINT    
>> FLINE   
>> HILO                                                                            
>> HLSYM                                                                           
>> CLRBAR                                                                         
>> WIND    18/1/1
>> REFVEC                                                                          
>> TITLE   32/-1/~ @ Surface Divergence!
>> TEXT    1/21//hw                                                                
>> CLEAR   yes                                                                     
>> STNPLT                                                                          
>> SATFIL                                                                          
>> RADFIL                                                                          
>> STREAM                                                                          
>> POSN    4                                                                       
>> COLORS  2                                                                       
>> MARKER  2                                                                       
>> GRDLBL  5                                                                       
>> LUTFIL  none
>> FILTER  yes
>>