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icon derives (and returns) a Thermodynamic diagram data unit. In such a diagram, temperature, humidity (represented by the dew point) and wind values are displayed with respect to pressure. There are mainly four different types of thermodynamic diagrams: Tephigram, Skew-T, Emagram and Stuve, but only the Tephigram diagram is currently implemented in Metview.

The Thermo Data icon can be plotted (using a default visualisation and with the plot area based on the range of data values) or saved as a NetCDF data file. The input data types are observation (upper air BUFR) or model field (GRIB) data.

If access to the output computed values is not required, or for more control of the plotting, use the icon Thermo View.

The macro language equivalents are thermo_bufr() and thermo_grib() (depending on the specified data type).

 

The Bufr Picker Editor

Data

Drop any icon containing or returning BUFR data. This may be, for example, a MARS Retrieval (of observations) icon, a BUFR file icon or an Observation Filter icon (provided it outputs BUFR, not geopoints).

Output

Specifies the output format you want. Specify one of the geopoints formats (Geographical Points, Geographical Polar Vectors or Geographical X Y Vectors).

Parameter

To specify a parameter enter its unique BUFR descriptor value (a numerical code). Geographical Polar Vectors and Geographical X Y Vectors require two descriptors, separated by a slash (/). The descriptor value is of the form XXYYY, where XX defines the class (e.g. 12 = Temperature class) and YYY the parameter within that class (e.g. 12004 = Dry bulb Temperature at 2m). These descriptor values are different from the ones of the GRIB format. If you do not know the descriptor value, click-left on the assist button to obtain a check list of parameters and associated descriptors. This list only contains the most common parameters. If the one you need is not on the list you can use the BUFR Examiner (right-click, Examine the BUFR file) to see what is there, or up its descriptor value in the "BUFR Reference Manual" (available from http://www.ecmwf.int/products/data/software/bufr.html#description) - see "BUFR Table B", pages 6-19. The significance of code and flag values for non-quantitative parameters are given in the same manual, in "BUFR code table", pages 22-70.

Missing Data

If set to Ignore, missing data is not included in the output file; this is the default behaviour. If set to Include, missing data will be output to the geopoints file, its value being set to that specified by Missing Data Value. Note that when the output format is one of the two geopoints vector formats, the observation is considered missing if one or both of the parameters are missing.

is the visual definition icon responsible for specifying how Thermodynamic diagram curves are displayed. It controls features such as line colour, style and thickness and how missing data will be plotted.

Info

From Macro/Python the icon can be called as mthermo().



The Thermo Plotting Editor

 All of the parameters in this editor come directly from Magics, and are documented on the graph plotting reference page. Note that this editor contains only a subset of the whole range of parameters available on the graph plotting editor . Also, the parameters names' suffix are Thermo Temperature and Thermo Dewpoint, instead of Graph.