GAMAP User's Guide
1.
Introduction to GAMAP
1.1 Overview
1.2 Summary of new features
2.
GAMAP Installation
2.1 General setup
2.2 Installing the GAMAP directories
2.2.1 A little more information
2.3 The idl_startup.pro file
2.4 Defining the default IDL paths
3.
GAMAP Color Tables
3.1 Overview
3.2 Defining color tables with MYCT
3.2.1 MYCT Basics
3.2.2 Setting the number of colors in the color table
3.2.3 MYCT's "drawing colors"
3.2.4 Other useful MYCT keywords
3.2.5 The !MYCT system variable
3.2.6 Specifying the default color table when you start IDL
3.3 Examples using the GAMAP color tables
3.3.1 Diverging color tables
3.3.1.1 Blue-White-Red
3.3.1.2 Blue-White-White-Red
3.3.1.3 Blue-Yellow-Red
3.3.1.4 Blue-Yellow-Yellow-Red
3.3.1.5 DIAL/LIDAR
3.3.1.6 Other diverging colortables
3.3.2 Spectral color tables
3.3.2.1 White-Blue
3.3.2.2 White-Red
3.3.2.3 Modified Spectrum
3.3.2.4 White-Green-Yellow-Red
3.3.2.5 White-Gray-Black
3.3.2.6 Other spectral colortables
3.4 Displaying color tables
3.4.1 CINDEX
3.4.2 COLORBAR
3.4.3 COLORBAR_NDIV
3.4.4 The /CBSCALE keyword
3.5 Color Table References
4.
Using GAMAP
4.1 Quick start
4.2 Important GAMAP command line options
4.2.1 /NOFILE, FILENAME
4.2.2 DIAGN, TRACER, TAU0, DATE
4.2.3 YRANGE, /AUTORANGE
4.2.4 /LOG, C_LEVEL
4.2.5 /POLAR
4.2.6 /PS, OUTFILENAME, /TIMESTAMP
4.2.7 DO_GIF, GIFFILENAME, etc.
4.2.8 RESULT
4.2.9 TOPTITLE, TTSIZE
4.2.10 APPEND
4.3 Multi-panel plots
4.4 Calling CTM_PLOT directly instead of using the GAMAP interface
4.4.1 General usage
4.4.2 An example with CTM_PLOT
4.4.3 More examples with CTM_PLOT
4.5 Calling CTM_OVERLAY to plot data atop a map
4.4.1 General usage
4.4.2 An example with CTM_OVERLAY
5.
GAMAP Reference
5.1 All GAMAP routines
5.2 GAMAP routines sorted by alphabetical order
5.3 GAMAP routines sorted by category
5.4 View the revisions logs for GAMAP routines
6.
Data Formats
6.1 ASCII "punch" files
6.2 Binary output files
6.2.1 General header
6.2.2 Data block header
6.3 COARDS-compliant
6.3.1 Overview
6.3.2 Reading COARDS-compliant netCDF files
6.3.3 Writing to COARDS-compliant netCDF Files
6.4 The FILEINFO structure
6.4.1 Structure tag names for FILEINFO
6.5 The DATAINFO structure
6.5.1 Structure tag names for DATAINFO
6.6 The MODELINFO structure
6.6.1 General usage
6.6.2 Example
6.6.3 Structure tag names for MODELINFO
6.7 The GRIDINFO structure
6.7.1 General usage
6.7.2 Example
6.7.3 Strucrture tag names for GRIDINFO
6.8 The TRACERINFO structure
6.8.1 Structure tag names for TRACERINFO
6.9 The DIAGINFO structure
6.9.1 Structure tag names for DIAGINFO
6.10 About 4-D data blocks in GAMAP
6.10.1 Writing a 4-D data block
6.10.2 Reading a 4-D data block
6.10.3 Some basic manipulations
7.
GAMAP Input Files
7.1 The "gamap.defaults" file
7.2 The "diaginfo.dat" file
7.3 The "tracerinfo.dat" files
8.
GAMAP Examples
8.1 Lon-lat tracer map for a single vertical level
8.2 Lon-lat tracer map, averaging over vertical levels
8.3 Line plot of the same data along one latitude
8.4 Polar plot with filled contours
8.5 Zonal mean contour plot
8.6 Multipanel map plots
8.7 Multipanel plots with top title
8.8 3-D isopleth surface atop a world map
8.9 Print anthropogenic emission totals
8.10 Print other emission totals
8.11 Using CTM_MAKE_DATAINFO and CTM_WRITEBPCH to make a "fake" restart file
8.12 Using CTM_PLOT to create figures for journals
8.13 Creating plots with a grayscale color table
8.14 Converting *.bpch output to other file formats
8.15 HDF file examples
8.16 HDF-EOS file examples
8.17 netCDF file examples
8.18 Difference plots
8.19 Overlaying data atop an image map
8.20 Finding grid cells by country
9.
Timeseries Tutorial
9.1 A brief tutorial about using timeseries data
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