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Thanks very much, Steve, this is just the kind of thing I had in mind. I'll give it a try with the Conduit data we have on hand, and if you hear nothing further, that will mean bright, shiny Success. If this looks as slick as I expect it to, I'll send you a plot from my script at some point. John M. Unidata Support wrote:
John,Low level drawing could be done through gpanot, or to a vgf file in NMAP2, but that is likely not to be a pleasant experience,and even more of a pain should you have to change something along the way. I'd suggest a small script to create a new variable, say TIDX(or tropopause index) defined as TIDX = PRES%TROP@0 / PRES and iterate this between 1000 mb and 50 mb (as an example)so you could plot a countour of TIDX=1. Here is the sample script I ran on the RUC 20km (grid 252 as a test):