! ------------------------------------------- ! Purpose: read in L_r and C from Chelton et al. 1998 ! from ascii data file produced with F90 program "raw2grid.f90". ! Output to netCDF file ! Usage: start ferret (see ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/Ferret) ! type: go map2netCDF.jnl ! ! Coded by Rob Scott ! do with it whatever you want. ! ------------------------------------------- DEFINE SYMBOL outfile = rossby_radius.cdf DEFINE AXIS/x=0.5E:359.5E:1/UNIT=longitude/MODULO x_axis DEFINE AXIS/y=89.5S:89.5N:1/UNIT=latitude y_axis DEFINE GRID/x=x_axis/y=y_axis grid_2d FILE/GRID=grid_2d/ORDER=xy/COLUMN=6/VAR=jj,ii,lat,lon,c,lr rossby_radius_map.dat SET VARIABLE/BAD=999/UNITS=degrees/TITLE="latitude" lat SET VARIABLE/BAD=999/UNITS=degrees/TITLE="longitude" lon SET VARIABLE/BAD=-1/UNITS="m/s"/TITLE="Rossby phase speed" c SET VARIABLE/BAD=-1/UNITS=km/TITLE="Rossby radius" lr SAVE/FILE=($outfile) lr, c