Hi John,
We are displaying WRF polar stereographic gridded files
in VERDI - a Java application that uses
netcdf-4.1 Java which contains WRFConvention.java.
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/v4.1/javadocAll/index.html
Apparently the map is not being projected correctly.
The attached zip file contains a sample WRF NetCDF
data file wrfinput_d01 and screen.gif which shows
correct CMAQ (M3IO NetCDF) data and map on the left and
WRF land-use data and mis-matched map on the right.
The grids are almost identical and so should display
almost the same. Note that South America and
Africa are clearly mis-registered with respect to the
land-use data where (most/all) red is ocean.
Some relevant attributes are:
west_east = 199 ;
south_north = 199 ;
float LU_INDEX(Time, south_north, west_east) ;
:DX = 108000.f ;
:DY = 108000.f ;
:GRIDTYPE = "C" ;
:MAP_PROJ = 2 ;
:CEN_LAT = 90.f ;
:CEN_LON = -8.f ;
:TRUELAT1 = 45.f ;
:TRUELAT2 = 45.f ;
:MOAD_CEN_LAT = 90.f ;
:STAND_LON = -98.f ;
CEN_LON looks suspect. Perhaps it should be -98?
In any case, which attributes are actually used by
WRFConventions?
I don't see any information about the ellipsoid in the file.
CMAQ usually uses a sphere of radius 6,370,000 meters.
Perhaps WRF does too.
It would seem that the constructors for all projectors should
have ellipsoid input parameters e.g.,
double major_semiaxis, double minor_semiaxis.
Is there a fix available?
Thanks,
Todd
1-919-541-5500
