Hi Ansley,
I tooled around more today with the wind trajectories and I am more
certain that there must be something wrong with Ferret's output to
Vis5D format. I downloaded a FORTRAN produced file from
WISC/SSEC/CIMSS and got the wind trajectories to work fine on my
local copy of Vis5D. After consulting with someone from SSEC, I
rearranged my Ferret file to have levels in km instead of hPa with
all var names/units correct and still the trajectories didn't work.
I will have to go the fortran route unless there is a quick fix
from Ferret users...
Steve
Quoting Ansley Manke <Ansley.B.Manke@noaa.gov>:
Hi Stephen,
Replying off-line from the Ferret end; let's see if anybody using
Vis5D answers and then we'll know what the whole answer is. It's
possible that Ferret's Vis5D writing function is out of date and
doesn't do everything that it should. It was written several years
ago and has not been updated to include any newer Vis5D
capabilities or updates. It'd be fairly straitforward to take the
function, which is a Ferret external function, and make any updates.
I wrote the Ferret function, but I'm not very familiar with Vis5D
and all its capabilities - I just hooked up Ferret output to the
inputs to the Vis5D file-writing calls.
Ansley
Stephen R. Guimond wrote:
Hello Clan,
I am creating Vis5D formatted files through FERRET to view in
Vis5D. With some playing around, I am able to make a ribbon wind
trajectory at a certain time step. However, when I step through
my times, the ribbon does not evolve, it remains only at the
original time step. I have tried using the SCHL.v5d file that
comes with the software and have created wind trajectories
successfully, so I am thinking it may be a problem on FERRET's
end. Has anyone successfully used the wind trajectory function in
Vis5D from FERRET produced files?
Thanks Much,
Steve
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Stephen R. Guimond
Graduate Research Assistant
Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS)
Tallahassee, FL 32304
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