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8.0 GEMPAK Graphing Exercises!!

Graphing Program Exercises!!

Exercises:

  1. Pick 5 stations and plot a meteogram comparing temperatures, sky cover, wind barbs and weather symbols.

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  2. Draw a Skew-T, Log-P for a station selected from your sounding station map, let's use Charlotte, NC (CHS), so that we have the same answers . What happens when you specify area as CHS instead of @CHS?

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  3. Plot spatial cross sections for 12 UTC on August 19, 1991, using the Hurrcane Bob Data, along the station line El paso (ELP) to Albequerque (ABQ) to Denver (DEN) to Rapid City (RAP) with contours of temperature (degress C) on a log P axis.

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  4. Draw a hodograph (SNHODO) for a sounding station. Try using pressure and height as the vertical coordinates. Try specifying LEVELS as ALL, MAN, and a range or list of values.

  5. Plot a time series (SNTSER) of pressure at the surface for the sounding station at Atlantic City, NJ (ACK) during Hurricane Bob on August 17-21, 1991.

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  6. Plot a vertical cross section of Theta-E using gridded data, along a line from Colorado to east of Massachusets for 12Z August 19, 1991. User the cursor command to select the cross section axis.

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