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\institute{Institut fÌr Meteorologie und Klimatologie, Leibniz UniversitÀt Hannover}
\date{last update: \today}
\event{PALM Seminar}
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\title[Introduction to NCL]{Introduction to NCL}
\author{Siegfried Raasch}

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\titlepage
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\section{Introduction to NCL}
\subsection{Introduction to NCL}

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   \frametitle{Visualization of PALM Output Data}
   \small
   \begin{itemize}     
           \item<1-> There are several ways how you can visualize netCDF data
           \item<1-> If you are lacking experience in the visualization of netCDF data or if you have not yet found your favourite way how to visualize netCDF data, here is one recommendation:
      \item<2-> NCL – The \textbf{N}CAR \textbf{C}ommand \textbf{L}anguage
      \item<2-> Developed by the Computational \& Information Systems Laboratory at the NCAR (continuously updated)
      \item<2-> Detailed information is available under http://www.ncl.ucar.edu
      \item<3-> With the information revealed in this talk you will be able to visualize the output of this week's simulations
   \end{itemize}   
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   \frametitle{What is NCL and Which are its Advantages? (I)}
   \small
   \begin{itemize}     
           \item<1-> Interpreted language designed specifically for scientific data processing and visualization, free available
           \item<2-> Portable: it is running on many different operating systems including Solaris, AIX, IRIX, Linux, MacOSX, DecAlpha, Cygwin/Windows
      \item<3-> It's a powerful tool for file input and output, visualization and data analysis (but please \textbf{avoid the excessive usage of loops}, as NCL is an interpreted language) $\rightarrow$ integrated processing environment
   \end{itemize}  
   \centering
   \onslide<3-> \includegraphics[scale=0.28]{ncl_figures/ncl.png}
   
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   \frametitle{What is NCL and Which are its Advantages? (II)}
   \small
   \begin{itemize}     
           \item<1-> Supports calling C and FORTRAN extended routines
           \item<1-> Over 600 functions and procedures for visualization and data analysis are provided with NCL
           \item<2-> Interactive mode: \texttt{\$ ncl}\\
      \texttt{ncl 0>}
      \item<3-> each line is interpreted as it is entered
      \item<1-> Batch mode: \texttt{\$ ncl ncl\underline{ }script.ncl}\\
      interpreter of complete scripts, variables within the NCL script can\\
      be steered by providing additional parameters with the ncl call\\
      \texttt{\$ ncl ncl\underline{ }script.ncl parameter1=value}
      \texttt{'parameter2=\dq string\dq ' ...}
   \end{itemize}  

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   \frametitle{What is NCL and Which are its Advantages? (III)}

   \begin{itemize}     
           \item<1-> Complete Programming Language
           \begin{itemize}   
              \footnotesize
              \item<1-> data types
              \item<1-> variables
              \item<1-> operators
              \item<1-> expressions
              \item<1-> loops
              \item<1-> functions/procedures/graphics
      \end{itemize}  
           \item<2-> Features
           \begin{itemize}   
              \footnotesize
              \item<2-> query / manipulate meta data
              \item<2-> import data in a variety of formats
              \item<2-> array syntax / operations
              \item<2-> can use user FORTRAN/C codes and commercial libraries
              \item<2-> most functions/procedures ignore missing data
      \end{itemize}  
   \end{itemize}  

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   \frametitle{How to Install NCL (Under Linux) (I)?}
   \small
   \begin{itemize}     
           \item<1-> Detailed information is available under\\
      \underline{http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/index.shtml}
           \item<1-> Request an Earth System Grid account
      \underline{http://www.earthsystemgrid.org/}
           \item<2-> Download the appropriate binaries e.g. \texttt{A.tar.gz} for your system e.g. to \texttt{\$HOME}
      \item<2-> \texttt{\% gunzip \$HOME/A.tar.gz}
      \item<2-> \texttt{\% mkdir -p /usr/local}\\
      \quad \texttt{\% cd /usr/local}\\
      \quad \texttt{\% tar -xvf \$HOME/A.tar}
   \end{itemize}  

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   \frametitle{How to Install NCL (Under Linux) (II)?}
   \footnotesize 
   \begin{itemize}     
           \item<1-> Set the \texttt{NCARG\underline{ }ROOT} environment variable and your search path to where NCL/NCARG resides\\
           csh: \texttt{setenv NCARG\underline{ }ROOT /usr/local/}\\
           \hspace{1.6em} \texttt{setenv PATH /usr/local/bin:\$PATH}\\
           bash/ksh: \texttt{export NCARG\underline{ }ROOT=/usr/local/}\\
           \hspace{4.1em} \texttt{export PATH=/usr/local/bin:\$PATH}\\
           \vspace{3mm}
      \item<2-> Set the DISPLAY environment variable to indicate where to display graphics as for any X11 Windows application that you run\\
      e.g. ksh: \texttt{export DISPLAY=localhost:13.0}, or use \texttt{ssh -X} to tunnel X-communication.\\
      \vspace{3mm}
      \item<3-> Test your NCL installation\\
      \quad \texttt{\% ng4ex gsun01}\\
      NCL script gsun01n.ncl is copied to your working directory and run through NCL. An X11 window should pop up.
   \end{itemize}  

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   \frametitle{NCL Scripts Delivered with PALM (I)}
   \footnotesize 
   \begin{itemize}     
           \item<1-> Together with the PALM installation you have also received four NCL scripts, a configuration file and a manual; they can be found in the directory\\
           \texttt{\$HOME/palm/current\underline{ }version/trunk/SCRIPTS/NCL/}
      \item<2-> All standard netCDF data output of PALM can be visualized by one of the scripts:
      \begin{itemize}
         \scriptsize
         \item[-]<2-> \texttt{cross\underline{ }sections.ncl} (2D/3D data, e.g. contour or vector plots)
         \item[-]<2-> \texttt{profiles.ncl} (profile data)
         \item[-]<2-> \texttt{timeseries.ncl} (time series data)
         \item[-]<2-> \texttt{spectra.ncl} (spectra data)
      \end{itemize}  
      \item<3-> To run these NCL scripts you can use the shell script \texttt{palmplot} which can be found in the directory\\
      \texttt{\$HOME/palm/current\underline{ }version/trunk/SCRIPTS}
      \item<4-> The output of the plots can be changed with several parameters; these parameters can be either written in the prompt (when calling the shell script \texttt{palmplot}) or modified within the configuration file \texttt{.ncl.config}
   \end{itemize}  

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   \frametitle{NCL Scripts Delivered with PALM (II)}

   Using \texttt{.ncl.config}
   \small
   \begin{itemize}     
           \item[-]<1-> Please create a personal configuration file by copying the default configuration file \texttt{.ncl.config.default} to the PALM working directory \texttt{\$HOME/palm/current\underline{ }version} and naming it \texttt{.ncl.config}
           \item[-]<2-> \texttt{.ncl.config} is used by NCL directly, thus the parameters have to be written according to the rules of the scripting language NCL
           \item[-]<3-> The configuration file contains all steering parameters with a short description and can be modified to personal needs
   \end{itemize}  

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   \frametitle{NCL Scripts Delivered with PALM (III)}

   Using \texttt{palmplot} (I)
   \footnotesize
   \begin{itemize}     
           \item[-]<1-> The shell script is used as follows:\\
      \texttt{palmplot <plot\underline{ }identifier>}
      \item[-]<1-> \texttt{<plot\underline{ }identifier>} has to be \texttt{xy}, \texttt{xz}, \texttt{yz}, \texttt{pr}, \texttt{sp} or \texttt{ts} depending on the data to be plotted
   \end{itemize}     
   \vspace{3mm}
   \onslide<2->\begin{tabular}{ccc}
      \textbf{plot\underline{ }identifier} & \textbf{data used} & \textbf{ncl script}\\
           xy & instantaneous or time-averaged xy or 3D data & cross\underline{ }sections.ncl\\
           xz & instantaneous or time-averaged xz or 3D data & cross\underline{ }sections.ncl\\
           yz & instantaneous or time-averaged yz or 3D data & cross\underline{ }sections.ncl\\
           pr & profile or 3D data & profiles.ncl\\
           sp & spectra data & spectra.ncl\\
           ts & time series data & timeseries.ncl\\ 
   \end{tabular}

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   \frametitle{NCL Scripts Delivered with PALM (IV)}

   Using \texttt{palmplot} (II)
   \footnotesize
   \begin{itemize}     
           \item[-]<1-> To change the output of the plot you can also use:\\
      \scriptsize \texttt{palmplot \textbf{plot\underline{ }identifier} parameter=value parameter=string ...} 
      \footnotesize \\
      \vspace{2mm}
      \item[-]<2-> A list of all available parameters can be found in the configuration file \texttt{.ncl.config} or in the documentation:\\
      \uncover<3->{\texttt{http://palm.muk.uni-hannover.de/wiki/doc/app/nclparlist}}\\
      \vspace{2mm}
      \item[-]<4-> Parameters specified in the prompt override parameters given in the configuration file\\
      \vspace{2mm}
      \item[-]<5-> String parameters which can contain lists (\texttt{var}, \texttt{c\underline{ }var}, \texttt{vec1}, \texttt{vec2}, \texttt{plotvec}) have to be set in single quotes and the list itself has to be separated by blanks, e.g. \texttt{var='pt u w'}\\
      \vspace{2mm}
      \item[-]<1-> A short introduction for using the shell script is given by typing\\
      \texttt{palmplot ?}
   \end{itemize}     

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   \frametitle{Application Example: Visualization of the Output of the Example Run (example\underline{ }cbl) (I)}
   \small
   \begin{itemize}     
           \item<1-> Starting the example run with the command\\
           \vspace{2mm}
      \texttt{mrun -d example\underline{ }cbl ... -r 'd3\# pr\# ts\# xy\# xz\#'}\\
      \vspace{2mm}
      results in the following output files in\\
      \vspace{2mm}
      \texttt{\$HOME/palm/current\underline{ }version/JOBS/example\underline{ }cbl/OUTPUT/}:\\
      \texttt{example\underline{ }cbl\underline{ }pr.nc}, \texttt{example\underline{ }cbl\underline{ }xy.nc}, \texttt{example\underline{ }cbl\underline{ }xz.nc},\\
      \texttt{example\underline{ }cbl\underline{ }ts.nc}
      \item<2-> Example: Visualization of the time series data\\
      \vspace{2mm}
      Goal: Output as eps-file \texttt{timeseries.eps} (by default the plot would be output to an X11 window)
   \end{itemize}     

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   \frametitle{Application Example: Visualization of the Output of the Example Run (example\underline{ }cbl) (II)}
   \small
   \begin{itemize}     
           \item<1-> In order to reach the goal you can either ...
      \item<1-> ... Change to the directory\\
      \texttt{\$HOME/palm/current\underline{ }version/JOBS/example\underline{ }cbl/OUTPUT/}\\
      and use the shell script with the command\\
      \vspace{2mm}
      \texttt{palmplot ts file\underline{ }1=example\underline{ }cbl\underline{ }ts.nc format\underline{ }out=eps file\underline{ }out=timeseries}\\
      \vspace{2mm}
      Thus, the script \texttt{timeseries.ncl} is called and some of the parameters in the configuration file \texttt{.ncl.config} are directly set by specifying the related parameters in the command line,\\
      \vspace{2mm}
      \onslide<2-> e.g. \texttt{file\underline{ }1 = <netCDF file>} \textbf{(Note: the input file has always to be specified!)}, \texttt{file\underline{ }out = <output file>}
   \end{itemize}     

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   \frametitle{Application Example: Visualization of the Output of the Example Run (example\underline{ }cbl) (III)}
   \footnotesize
   ... or you can modify the configuration file \texttt{.ncl.config}, e.g.\\
   \vspace{2mm}
   \texttt{if(.not. isvar(\dq file\underline{ }1\dq))then}\\
   \quad \quad \texttt{file\underline{ }1 = \dq File in\dq}\\
   \texttt{end if}\\
   \vspace{2mm}
   \onslide<2-> has to be changed to\\
   \vspace{2mm}
\texttt{if(.not. isvar(\dq file\underline{ }1\dq))then}\\
   \quad \quad \texttt{file\underline{ }1 = \dq \$HOME/palm/current\underline{ }version/JOBS/example\underline{ }cbl/OUTPUT/example\underline{ }cbl\underline{ }ts.nc\dq}\\
   \texttt{end if}

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   \frametitle{Application Example: Visualization of the Output of the Example Run (example\underline{ }cbl) (IV)}
   \footnotesize
   \begin{itemize}
      \item<1-> Both ways will lead to the creation of a new file called \texttt{timeseries.eps} in the directory\\
      \texttt{\$HOME/palm/current\underline{ }version/JOBS/example\underline{ }cbl/OUTPUT/}
   \end{itemize}
   \centering
   \onslide<2->\includegraphics[scale=0.4]{ncl_figures/vis1.png}
   
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   \frametitle{Application Example: Visualization of the Output of the Example Run (example\underline{ }cbl) (V)}
   \footnotesize
   \begin{itemize}
      \item<1-> If you only want to get the plot of the time series of one variable, e.g. the maximum of the velocity component u, you can add the command line parameter \texttt{var='umax'} or modify the configuration file respectively, e.g.\\
      \vspace{2mm}
      \texttt{if(.not. isvar(\dq var\dq ))then}\\
      \quad \quad \texttt{var = \dq ,umax,\dq }\\        
      \texttt{end if}
   \end{itemize}
   \centering
   \onslide<2->\includegraphics[scale=0.7]{ncl_figures/vis2.png}
   
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   \frametitle{Application Example: Visualization of the Output of the Example Run (example\underline{ }cbl) (VI)}
   \footnotesize
   Plot profiles with the command\\
   \quad \texttt{palmplot pr file\underline{ }1=example\underline{ }cbl\underline{ }pr.nc}\\
   \vspace{3mm}
   Profiles of same dimension are plotted\\
   together, e.g. total, resolved and\\
   subgridscale temperature flux (default)\\
   \vspace{3mm}
   (This composition is written to the\\
   NetCDF header by the \texttt{d3par}\\
   parameter \texttt{cross\underline{ }profiles})\\
   \vspace{3mm}
   If you add the parameter var=all to\\
   the command, all profiles will be plotted\\
   separately 
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   \frametitle{More Comments}
   \small
   \begin{itemize}     
           \item<1-> The other NCL scripts delivered with PALM can be used in a similar way, however the parameters that can be specified differ from script to script
           \item<2-> There are plenty of parameters for each script. Please have a look to the NCL documentation (\texttt{http://palm.muk.uni-hannover.de/wiki/doc/app/nclparlist}) for detailed information 
      \item<1-> If one of the program aborts and there is no comment, check the configuration file - the scripts should not abort with the default values. Be sure to use the right data type (e.g.: integer = 2; float = 2.0; double = 2.0d; string = \dq name\dq )  
   \end{itemize}   
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