GEMPAK Manual |
Programs | Parameters
CINT
CINT is the contour interval, minimum and maximum values and number
of digits, separated by slashes:
contour interval / minimum / maximum / ndigits
The contour interval may be any real number. If it is not specified
or if the value is 0, the program will select an interval which will
generate 5 to 10 contour levels.
The minimum and maximum values specify the range of data to use in
selecting contour levels. If either value is not specified, the
value will be obtained from the range of values in the dataset. If
the minimum and maximum are equal, that value will be used and only
one contour level will be selected.
A list of two or more contour levels may be entered using semicolons
to separate the individual values. In this case, the minimum and
maximum are ignored.
A text string may be specified to replace the contour level value as
the contour label. In a list of contour values, enter a value and a
text string separated by an "=" sign. The input format is shown
below:
value1=label1;value2=label2;...;valueN=labelN
To set the contour label when plotting a single contour level by
setting the minimum and maximum equal, enter the value and the text
string separated by an "=" sign before the first slash. For example:
value1=label1 / value1 / value1
If the number of digits (ndigits) is specified, the integer portion
of the contour labels is forced to contain ndigits characters, not
counting the minus sign, if present. If the the number of characters
in the integer portion is less than ndigits, that portion is expanded
by padding to the left of the leading digit with zeroes. For example:
if ndigits = 3 and the original label is 15 or -5, the new labels will
be plotted as 015 and -005 respectively. If the number of characters
in the original label is greater than or equal to ndigits, the original
label will be unchanged. Using ndigits = 4, original labels 1260 and
43712 would be plotted as 1260 and 43712, while a label of 580
would be plotted as 0580. If there are decimal places or scientific
notation in the original labels, everything to the right of the decimal
point will be plotted without change. Therefore, if ndigits = 3, then
7.25, -12.4, and 6.5E+12 would be plotted as 007.25, -012.4 and
006.5E+12, respectively.