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The Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) from Unidata is a framework for analyzing and displaying geoscience data.
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Add Geopotential_isobaric alias for ECMWF grids #33

Closed mhiley closed 11 years ago

mhiley commented 11 years ago

ECMWF grids only natively contain "geopotential", so to display "geopotential height" you must use a derived quantity. However, currently "geopotential height" does not appear as a derived quantity for ECMWF data sources. This simply adds a "Geopotential_isobaric" alias so the derived quantity will show up properly.

To test, load an ECMWF grib file as a data source. If you see "3D grid" -> "Derived" -> "Height from Geopotential (Geopotential_isobaric)" as an option, the fix is working. An example file for testing is here:

ftp://ftp.ssec.wisc.edu/pub/incoming/ecmwf.grb

This is a fix for McV inquiry 1129: http://dcdbs.ssec.wisc.edu/inquiry-v/?inquiry=1129

Thanks! Mike