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Date=200510070900; Object=Front; Type=Warm front; LongitudeLatitude= -9.02711,59.8912, -3.86701,62.8109, 5.02399,65.9834; RGBA=255,0,0,255; ! Object=Symbol; Type=Fog; Size=10; LongitudeLatitude= 1.86341,66.0907; RGBA=128,128,0,255; ! Object=Symbol; Type=Low pressure; Size=10; LongitudeLatitude= 0,82.2265; RGBA=255,0,0,255; ! Object=Symbol; Type=Texts; Text=F~9; Size=10; LongitudeLatitude= 0.532281,75.0545; RGBA=0,0,0,255; ! LABEL anno=<text="Surface analysis for 2005-10-07 09 UTC"> tcolour=red bcolour=black fcolour=white:200 polystyle=both halign=left valign=top font=Helvetica fontsize=12 |
Date=yyyymmddhhmm;, e.g.
Date=200510070900;There must be a semicolon at the end. This is followed by a blank line.
Object=TypeOfObject;TypeOfObject can be Front, Symbol, or Area.
Type=Subtypeis compulsory for each object.
LongitudeLatitude=Coordinatesis compulsory for each object.
RGBA=r,g,b,a;is optional. R,g,b and a, are the red, green, blue and alpha components of the colour.
Size=SymbolsizeSymbol size is the symbol's size in points. If this line is missing the default symbol size will be used.
Text=Symboltextwhere Symbol text is the text to be displayed.
[COLUMNS Date:d Time:t:"some text" Lon:lon Lat:lat RRR:r Station:s Icon:image] [DATA] 2004-11-20 12:00:00 10.86 59.55 0.4 "Dear home" wbkz_green 2004-11-20 12:00:00 10.51 59.89 0.1 Home wbkz_red 2004-11-20 12:00:00 9.99 59.19 6.3 Somewhere wbkz_white |
Command | Example | Description |
UNDEFINED | [UNDEFINED NaN,Inf] |
NaN and Inf are treated as
undefined values |
SKIP_DATA_LINES | [SKIP_DATA_LINES 3] |
Skip first 3 data lines |
LABEL | [LABEL text="Label text"] |
Syntax: see Labels |
COLUMNS | [COLUMNS Date:d Time:t:"some text" Lon:r Lat:r] |
name:type or name:type:tooltip |
DATA | [DATA] |
Start of data section |
Column type | Description |
r | Real number |
i | Integer number |
s | String |
d | Date (yyyy-mm-dd) |
t | Time (HH:MM:SS) |
year | yyyy |
month | mm |
day | dd |
hour | HH |
time | MM |
lat | Latitude in degrees |
lon | Longitude in degrees |
dd | Wind direction in degrees <0,360] |
ff | Wind speed in m/s |
ffk | Wind speed in knots |
image | Name of xpm, must be defined in setup |
lat
and lon
are mandatory.
dd
and ff/ffk
are present,
the parameter Wind
will be added, and wind arrows can be
plotted.
grid_mapping_name=geographic false_easting false_northing
grid_mapping_name=polar_stereographic latitude_of_projection_origin= -90 OR 90 standard_parallel OR scale_factor_at_projection_origin false_easting false_northing
grid_mapping_name=rotated_latitude_longitude grid_north_pole_latitude grid_north_pole_longitude false_easting false_northing
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