Hi Carol, re: > Hum, ok well that sounds very complicated. I think you have more faith in > my mcidas abilities than you should :) I do have faith in your McIDAS abilities :-) re: > Could I at least plot the wind barbs from the surface stations via what's > coming through on NOAAPORT? Absolutely. re: > I could use PTDISP I assume. Is that a common > thing that people do? Sorry, clearly I'm not too familiar with this. For surface data, you would use SFCPLOT, for upper air data, you would use RAOBPLOT. The dataset that you would most likely use for surface data is RTPTSRC/SFCHOURLY, and the dataset you would use for upper air data (on mandatory levels) is RTPTSRC/UPPERMAND. Try the following to get familiar with plotting surface winds: DATALOC ADD RTPTSRC atm.ucar.edu SF 1 ERASE F SFCPLOT WINDB NACONF Then, overlay surface wind barbs over a GOES-16 CONUS thermal IR image: SF 1 ERASE F IMGDISP RTGOESR/CONUSC13 LAT=30 87 MAG=-2;MAP SFCPLOT WINDB OLAY Check out the various options for SFCPLOT and RAOBPLOT using the built in HELP: HELP SFCPLOT HELP RAOBPLOT The corresponding routines for contouring data are: SFCCON RAOBCON Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: ITE-161076 Department: Support McIDAS Priority: Normal Status: Closed =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.
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