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> Thank you Yuan for the swift reply! > OK, we have partial success. Your recommendation if using Transect display > does yield a vertical scale in both height and pressure. But I do not see > how to extract that cross section to netcdf as in the vertical cross section > plot (dashboard then calculate vertical cross section then displays then file > then save displayed data as netcdf). Can you help with that? Thanks! > > Shannon If you want to save a netcdf file with pressure as its vertical coordinate, you need to use the formula to do the calculation before the exporting and saving data. Yuan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Unidata IDV Support [mailto:address@hidden] > Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 12:25 PM > To: address@hidden > Cc: address@hidden > Subject: [IDV #ZKB-937399]: z to pressure in wrf > > > Hi, > > > > My name is Shannon Davis and I am a researcher at Woods Hole > > Oceanographic, and an atmospheric scientist who uses IDV. First, big > > fan of the software, and want to pass on my appreciation for a great > > job. Second, I have a technical problem I wondered if anybody could > > help with. The issue is with some WRF output files (ncdf). Thus far I > > have been able to process them, slice and dice the data as I wished > > but all in z coordinates. I would like to transform to pressure > > coordinates. Specifically, I would like to extract some vertical cross > > sections and save them as smaller netcdf. I have done this already > > with z vertical coordinates which seem to load by default in IDV. Any > > way to do it using pressure as the vertical coordinate? Thanks for any help! > > > > > > > > Shannon > > > > > > > Hi Shannon, > Thanks for your comment on the IDV, it would be nice if you can provide your > successful story of using the IDV in your research and share with the > community. > > For the vertical coordinates, you might try using the Transect display which > has the vertical scale in both height and pressure. See the section of the > workshop on this at: > > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/docs/workshop/page_transectviews.html > > Yuan > > Ticket Details > =================== > Ticket ID: ZKB-937399 > Department: Support IDV > Priority: Normal > Status: Open > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: ZKB-937399 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open