Wmap(3NCARG)

✨ Wmap — the weather map bestie ✨

okay so this is Wmap, a whole package from NCAR GRAPHICS for producing daily weather maps and plotting station model data. she lives in section 3NCARG and honestly? she ate. 💅

🌈 NAME 🌈

Wmap — A Package for Producing Daily Weather Maps and Plotting Station Model Data

no cap, that's the whole vibe: weather maps, station model data, all of it. 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

so like, here's the full roster of Fortran routines, each one doing her own little thing:

• WMBARB — Plots wind barbs. 🌬️
• WMDFLT — Returns all values of all internal parameters to their defaults. (the ultimate reset, the factory-reset of the group chat 🙈)
• WMDRFT — Draws weather fronts.
• WMDRRG — Draws weather regions (indicating "snow", "rain", etc.) or regions of solid color indicating temperature regions.
• WMGETC — Retrieves the character value of a specified internal parameter.
• WMGETI — Retrieves the integer value of a specified internal parameter.
• WMGETR — Retrieves the real value of a specified internal parameter.
• WMLABC — Plots city names and daily hi/lows.
• WMLABS — Plots special symbols and daily weather icons. ⛅
• WMLABT — Plots regional temperature labels.
• WMLABW — Plots regional weather labels.
• WMLGND — Plots weather map legends.
• WMSETC — Gives a new character value to a specified internal parameter.
• WMSETI — Gives a new integer value to a specified internal parameter.
• WMSETR — Gives a new real value to a specified internal parameter.
• WMSTNM — Plots station model data.

it's giving get / set, but make it meteorological. ✨

💜 C-BINDING SYNOPSIS 💜

for the C girlies, include this and you're set:

#include <ncarg/ncargC.h>

and then the C entries are literally just the Fortran ones with a c_ glow-up:

c_wmbarb
c_wmdflt
c_wmdrft
c_wmdrrg
c_wmgetc
c_wmgeti
c_wmgetr
c_wmlabc
c_wmlabs
c_wmlabt
c_wmlabw
c_wmlgnd
c_wmsetc
c_wmseti
c_wmsetr
c_wmstnm

sixteen of them, one for one, no one left behind. 🫶

🔥 ACCESS 🔥

To use Wmap Fortran or C entries, load the NCAR Graphics libraries ncarg, ncarg_gks, and ncarg_c — preferably in that order.

lowkey important: that order is not a suggestion bestie, load them ncarg, then ncarg_gks, then ncarg_c. ✨

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

Online: wmap_params, wmbarb, wmdflt, wmdrft, wmdrrg, wmgetc, wmgeti, wmgetr, wmlabc, wmlabs, wmlabt, wmlabw, wmlgnd, wmsetc, wmseti, wmsetr, wmstnm, ncarg_cbind.

Hardcopy: WMAP - A Package for Producing Daily Weather Maps and Plotting Station Model Data

like bestie the whole squad is linked, go read them, iykyk. 👑

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright (C) 1987-2009 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research The use of this Software is governed by a License Agreement.

that's the whole page fr fr 💖 she's from UNIX, dated January 1995, and the page is Wmap(3NCARG) — iconic, timeless, no notes, periodt. 🌈⭐💜