Plot-Point-Obs Functionality
The Plot-Point-Obs tool can be used to create a plot showing the locations of the point observations contained in the NetCDF output of the ASCII2NC, PB2NC, MADIS2NC, or LIDAR2NC tools. Occasionally, a postprocessing or timing error can lead to errors in MET. This tool can assist the user by showing the data to be verified to ensure that times and locations match up as expected.
Plot-Point-Obs Usage
View the usage statement for Plot-Point-Obs by simply typing the following:
At a minimum, the name of the file to be plotted, nc_file, and the output PostScript file, ps_file, must be passed in on the command line. The Plot-Point-Obs tool has command line options for filtering which observations get plotted and the area to be plotted. You may use the -data_file command line argument to specify a data file whose grid should be used for the plot.
