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7.18 Volumes and Spatial Selections

To demonstrate potential usage of the new programs grdvolume and gmtselect we extract a subset of the Sandwell & Smith altimetric gravity field7.3for the northern Pacific and decide to isolate all seamounts that (1) exceed 50 mGal in amplitude and (2) are within 200 km of the Pratt seamount. We do this by dumping the 50 mGal contours to disk, then making a simple $AWK script center.awk that returns the mean location of the points making up each closed polygon, and then pass these locations to gmtselect which retains only the points within 200 km of Pratt. We then mask out all the data outside this radius and use grdvolume to determine the combined area and volumes of the chosen seamounts. Our illustration is presented in Figure 7.18.

    #!/bin/sh
    #               GMT EXAMPLE 18
    #
    # Purpose:      Illustrates volumes of grids inside contours and spatial
    #               selection of data
    # GMT progs:    gmtset, gmtselect, grdclip, grdcontour, grdgradient, grdimage
    # GMT progs:    grdmath, grdvolume, makecpt, pscoast, psscale, pstext, psxy
    # Unix progs:   $AWK, cat, rm
    #
    ps=example_18.ps

    # Use spherical projection since SS data define on sphere
    gmtset ELLIPSOID Sphere D_FORMAT %lg

    # Define location of Pratt seamount
    echo "-142.65 56.25" > pratt.d

    # First generate gravity image w/ shading, label Pratt, and draw a circle
    # of radius = 200 km centered on Pratt.

    makecpt -Crainbow -T-60/60/10 -Z > grav.cpt
    grdgradient AK_gulf_grav.nc -Nt1 -A45 -GAK_gulf_grav_i.nc
    grdimage AK_gulf_grav.nc -IAK_gulf_grav_i.nc -JM5.5i -Cgrav.cpt -B2f1 -P -K -X1.5i -Y5.85i > $ps
    pscoast -RAK_gulf_grav.nc -J -O -K -Di -Ggray -Wthinnest >> $ps
    psscale -D2.75i/-0.4i/4i/0.15ih -Cgrav.cpt -B20f10/:mGal: -O -K >> $ps
    $AWK '{print $1, $2, 12, 0, 1, "LB", "Pratt"}' pratt.d | pstext -R -J -O -K -D0.1i/0.1i >> $ps
    $AWK '{print $1, $2, 0, 400, 400}' pratt.d | psxy -R -J -O -K -SE -Wthinnest >> $ps

    # Then draw 10 mGal contours and overlay 50 mGal contour in green

    grdcontour AK_gulf_grav.nc -J -C20 -B2f1WSEn -O -K -Y-4.85i \
            -U/-1.25i/-0.75i/"Example 18 in Cookbook" >> $ps
    grdcontour AK_gulf_grav.nc -J -C10 -L49/51 -O -K -Dsm -Wcthin,green >> $ps
    pscoast -R -J -O -K -Di -Ggray -Wthinnest >> $ps
    $AWK '{print $1, $2, 0, 400, 400}' pratt.d | psxy -R -J -O -K -SE -Wthinnest >> $ps
    rm -f sm_*[0-9].xyz     # Only consider closed contours

    # Now determine centers of each enclosed seamount > 50 mGal but only plot
    # the ones within 200 km of Pratt seamount.

    # First determine mean location of each closed contour and
    # add it to the file centers.d

    rm -f centers.d
    for file in sm_*.xyz; do
            $AWK 'BEGIN{x=0;y=0;n=0};{x+=$1;y+=$2;n++};END{print x/n,y/n}' $file >> centers.d
    done

    # Only plot the ones within 200 km

    gmtselect -C200/pratt.d centers.d -fg | psxy -R -J -O -K -SC0.04i -Gred -Wthinnest >> $ps
    psxy -R -J -O -K -ST0.1i -Gyellow -Wthinnest pratt.d >> $ps

    # Then report the volume and area of these seamounts only
    # by masking out data outside the 200 km-radius circle
    # and then evaluate area/volume for the 50 mGal contour

    grdmath -R `cat pratt.d` GDIST = mask.nc
    grdclip mask.nc -Sa200/NaN -Sb200/1 -Gmask.nc
    grdmath AK_gulf_grav.nc mask.nc MUL = tmp.nc
    area=`grdvolume tmp.nc -C50 -Sk | cut -f2`
    volume=`grdvolume tmp.nc -C50 -Sk | cut -f3`

    psxy -R -J -A -O -K -L -Wthin -Gwhite >> $ps << END
    -148.5  52.75
    -140.5  52.75
    -140.5  53.75
    -148.5  53.75
    END
    pstext -R -J -O >> $ps << END
    -148 53.08 14 0 1 LM Areas: $area km@+2@+
    -148 53.42 14 0 1 LM Volumes: $volume mGal\264km@+2@+
    END

    # Clean up

    rm -f grav.cpt sm_*.xyz *_i.nc tmp.nc mask.nc pratt.d center* .gmt*

Figure 7.18: Volumes and geo-spatial selections.

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