RE: [ferret_users] putting 1D variable into 2D (lat,depth) for using in objective analysis

["Pearse J. Buchanan" <pearseb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Ansley and others,

This works! Thanks for the help.

So to clarify: Ysequence, and the other sequences (Xsequence, Zsequence, etc), simply tell ferret that I want some numbers placed on a certain axis?

Pearse

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From: Ansley C. Manke [ansley.b.manke@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: 07 May 2018 13:16
To: ferret_users@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ferret_users] putting 1D variable into 2D (lat,depth) for using in objective analysis

Hi Pearse,

Replying to the list as well -- Pearse and I looked at this a bit.  The error message is

Bailing out of external function "scat2gridgauss_yz":
        No data in scattered y, z points.  F() data values must be defined on Y or Z axis.
 **ERROR: error in external function

http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/documentation/users-guide/variables-xpressions/XPRESSIONS#_SCAT2GRIDGAUSS_YZ

The arguments to the function are SCAT2GRIDGAUSS_YZ(YPTS, ZPTS, F, YAXPTS, ZAXPTS, ...)   where ypts and zpts are simple lists of points, on any axis.  The third argument, F, can also depend on other dimensions.  This would allow for you to have a set of locations ypts, zpts, and F as a measurement at a set of times and/or a set of longitudes.  This means that for the third argument, the scattered-data direction must lie along a y or z axis. The function then keeps any dependence on an X, T, E, or F axis, and finds the "scattered" data along a Y or Z direction. In the documentation,

F-data: 3rd component of scattered input triples. This is the variable we are putting onto the grid. It must have the scattered-data direction along a Y or Z axis. May be function of X or time.

For this case, all you need to do is recast the data for the 3rd argument onto a Y or Z axis,

yes? define axis/y=-65:25:1/units=degrees yax
yes? define axis/z=0:6000:50/units=meters/depth zax
yes? let xscale = 0.5
yes? let yscale = 25
yes? let cutoff = 3

yes? let no3_ind_on_y = YSEQUENCE(no3_ind)

yes? let no3int_ind = scat2gridgauss_yz(lat_ind, dep_ind, no3_ind_on_y, y[gy=yax], z[gz=zax], xscale, yscale, cutoff, 0)
yes? shade no3int_ind

-Ansley

On 5/4/2018 10:05 AM, Ansley C. Manke wrote:

Hi Pearse,

For your data, the arguments of scat2gridgauss_yz would just be the simple 1-D lists of data, and the result will be on your y-z grid defined by the axes yax and zax that you've defined.  The function allows for the 3rd argument to have more dimensions, for instance scattered locations all measured at a set of times, but it is fine for the first 3 arguments to all be 1-D.

You're treating longitude only as a mask, that is keeping longitudes in the range between 35 and 120 degrees east, correct?  So the result will not depend on longitude.

Since z is a depth, you should define your axis zax with /depth, that is positive values of depth increasing downwards.  You don't say what error you're running into.  What plot commands are you trying and what happens?

Ansley

On 5/4/2018 8:03 AM, Pearse Buchanan wrote:

Hello all,

 

I’m trying to interpolate observations of NO₃ using the function “scat2gridgauss_yz”.

 

I successfully read in my data, which is structured as 1D column data, which looks like so:

 

As you can see, I have 37,200 observations.

 

I now want to select my data from the Indian Ocean, where I eventually would like to do my interpolation using scat2gridgauss_yz.

Plotting the locations it seems like this has worked nicely.

 

 

 

However, the problem then arises when I want to use “scat2gridgauss_yz” to interpolate this data. My command is:

And when trying to plot the data, I have an error. This error is related (I think!) to the fact that my NO₃ data is in a 1D form. That is, it doesn’t have y,z coordinates. Scat2gridgauss requires that the variable in the 3^rd argument be of 2 dimensions. Specifically, it must relate to the 2 dimensions of the 1^st and 2^nd arguments, in this case Latitude and Depth.

 

My question, therefore, is how to place my 1D NO₃ data onto 2 dimensions of the lat,depth coordinates.

 

Thanks all,

Pearse

 

Pearse J. Buchanan

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania

 

PhD Candidate / CSIRO-UTAS Quantitative Marine Science

ARC Centre of Excellence in Climate System Science – UTAS student representative

 

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