DISPLAY HOVMOLLER STEER.DAT

Basic Information

File-Type

display_hovmoller_steer.dat

File-Form

FORMATTED

Version

April 2016

Description-Date

April 2016

Significance of the File

contains general input data for the program display_hovmoller

File-Contents (in Catchwords)

Picture Colormaps available in MATLAB.

Input Steering Data

information about the file input (block input)
- key "file" : path to folder containing the input data
- key "inputformat" : format of the input data (choose "xtrdata" for files that were created using XTRDATA or "netcdf" for profile oriented data that is stored in NetCDF-files)
information regarding the output (block output)
- key "directory" : path to folder where plots will be saved (program can create this folder if it does not exist yet during runtime)
- key "outputformat" : desired format of the created plots (*.pdf,*.png,*.fig,*.eps); *.pdf is recommended
- key "parameter" : name of the physical quantity that is plotted(choose "all" to plot all quantities or give the name of a quantity as it is given in the Xtrdata-output file)
- Key "profile" : name of the profile as it is given in the variable Mesh1_prof_long_name in the NetCDF-file (is only needed when "inputformat = netcdf" was chosen)
- key "metadata" : set to "1" to display metadata beneath the plot
- key "fontsize" : fontsize of the plot
- key "font" : font of the plot
- key "figsize" : size of the created plot [width height] in cm
further information about the plot (block plotinfo)
- key "palette" : name of the colormap that Matlab should use (see picture for available colormaps)
- key "xlimit" : limits of the x-axis [lower_boundary upper_boundary]
- key "ylimit" : limits of the y-axis [lower_boundary upper_boundary] (optional; can only be chosen if one physical quantity is plotted)

General Remarks

While reading this steering file the dictionary file display_hovmoller_dico.dat will be automatically accessed in directory $PROGHOME/dic/.

Programs using this Type of File

"DISPLAY_HOVMOLLER"

Example-File

siehe $PROGHOME/examples/display_hovmoller/example1/display_hovmoller_steer.dat

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