ucar.unidata.geoloc.vertical
Class WRFEta

java.lang.Object
  ucar.unidata.geoloc.vertical.VerticalTransformImpl
      ucar.unidata.geoloc.vertical.WRFEta

All Implemented Interfaces:

VerticalTransform

public class WRFEta
extends VerticalTransformImpl

Models the vertical coordinate for the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model's vertical Eta coordinate

Version:

$Revision: 1.19 $

Author:

IDV Development Team

Field Summary

static java.lang.String	BaseGeopotentialVariable _more_
static java.lang.String	BasePressureVariable _more_
static java.lang.String	IsStaggeredX _more_
static java.lang.String	IsStaggeredY _more_
static java.lang.String	IsStaggeredZ _more_
static java.lang.String	PerturbationGeopotentialVariable _more_
static java.lang.String	PerturbationPressureVariable _more_

Fields inherited from class ucar.unidata.geoloc.vertical.VerticalTransformImpl

units

Constructor Summary

WRFEta(NetcdfDataset ds, Dimension timeDim, VerticalCT vCT)
Construct a vertical coordinate for the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model's vertical Eta coordinate

Method Summary

ArrayDouble.D3

getCoordinateArray(int timeIndex) Get the 3D vertical coordinate array for this time step.

Methods inherited from class ucar.unidata.geoloc.vertical.VerticalTransformImpl

getTimeDimension, getUnitString, isTimeDependent, readArray, subset

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

BasePressureVariable

public static final java.lang.String BasePressureVariable

_more_

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Constant Field Values

PerturbationPressureVariable

public static final java.lang.String PerturbationPressureVariable

_more_

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Constant Field Values

BaseGeopotentialVariable

public static final java.lang.String BaseGeopotentialVariable

_more_

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Constant Field Values

PerturbationGeopotentialVariable

public static final java.lang.String PerturbationGeopotentialVariable

_more_

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Constant Field Values

IsStaggeredX

public static final java.lang.String IsStaggeredX

_more_

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Constant Field Values

IsStaggeredY

public static final java.lang.String IsStaggeredY

_more_

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Constant Field Values

IsStaggeredZ

public static final java.lang.String IsStaggeredZ

_more_

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Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

WRFEta

public WRFEta(NetcdfDataset ds,
              Dimension timeDim,
              VerticalCT vCT)

Construct a vertical coordinate for the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model's vertical Eta coordinate

Parameters:

ds - netCDF dataset

timeDim - time dimension

vCT - vertical coordinate transform

Method Detail

getCoordinateArray

public ArrayDouble.D3 getCoordinateArray(int timeIndex)
                                  throws java.io.IOException

Get the 3D vertical coordinate array for this time step.

Specified by:

getCoordinateArray in interface VerticalTransform

Specified by:

getCoordinateArray in class VerticalTransformImpl

Parameters:

timeIndex - the time index. Ignored if !isTimeDependent().

Returns:

vertical coordinate array

Throws:

java.io.IOException - problem reading data