The Plot-Data-Plane utility provides a way to visualize the gridded data fields that MET can read. When running Point-Stat, we verified 2-meter temperature, and we'll now run Plot-Data-Plane to visualize that data with the following command:
plot_data_plane \
$MET_TUTORIAL_DATA/input/sample_fcst/2007033000/nam.t00z.awip1236.tm00.20070330.grb \
$MET_TUTORIAL_DATA/output/point_stat/nam.t00z.awip1236.tm00.20070330_TMPZ2.ps \
'name="TMP"; level="Z2";'
$MET_TUTORIAL_DATA/input/sample_fcst/2007033000/nam.t00z.awip1236.tm00.20070330.grb \
$MET_TUTORIAL_DATA/output/point_stat/nam.t00z.awip1236.tm00.20070330_TMPZ2.ps \
'name="TMP"; level="Z2";'
Now try running Plot-Data-Plane, plotting the 2-meter temperature from a GRIB2 RTMA file, on the command line using the following command:
plot_data_plane \
$MET_TUTORIAL_DATA/input/sample_obs/rtma/rtma_2012051712_F000.grib2 \
$MET_TUTORIAL_DATA/output/plot_data_plane/rtma_2012051712_F000.ps \
'name="TMP"; level="Z2";'
$MET_TUTORIAL_DATA/input/sample_obs/rtma/rtma_2012051712_F000.grib2 \
$MET_TUTORIAL_DATA/output/plot_data_plane/rtma_2012051712_F000.ps \
'name="TMP"; level="Z2";'
When running PCP-Combine, we summed up four 3-hourly accumulation forecast files into a single 12-hour accumulation forecast. Run Plot-Data-Plane to plot the NetCDF output from PCP-Combine on the command line using the following command:
plot_data_plane \
$MET_TUTORIAL_DATA/output/pcp_combine/sample_fcst_24L_2005080800V_12A.nc \
$MET_TUTORIAL_DATA/output/pcp_combine/sample_fcst_24L_2005080800V_12A.ps \
'name="APCP_12"; level="A12";'
$MET_TUTORIAL_DATA/output/pcp_combine/sample_fcst_24L_2005080800V_12A.nc \
$MET_TUTORIAL_DATA/output/pcp_combine/sample_fcst_24L_2005080800V_12A.ps \
'name="APCP_12"; level="A12";'
Next, let's visualize the gridded RMSE data generated by the Series-Analysis tool:
plot_data_plane \
$MET_TUTORIAL_DATA/output/series_analysis/series_analysis_2005080700_2005080800_3A.nc \
$MET_TUTORIAL_DATA/output/series_analysis/series_analysis_2005080700_2005080800_3A_RMSE.ps \
'name="series_cnt_RMSE"; level="(*,*)";'
$MET_TUTORIAL_DATA/output/series_analysis/series_analysis_2005080700_2005080800_3A.nc \
$MET_TUTORIAL_DATA/output/series_analysis/series_analysis_2005080700_2005080800_3A_RMSE.ps \
'name="series_cnt_RMSE"; level="(*,*)";'
