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How to produce an orographic map of Sri Lanka using CDT

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 What is Orography? "Orography is the study of the topographic relief of mountains, and can more broadly include hills, and any part of a region's elevated terrain. Orography (also known as oreography, orology or oreology) falls within the broader discipline of geomorphology." - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For more Information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orography#:~:text=Orography%20is%20the%20study%20of,the%20broader%20discipline%20of%20geomorphology. Producing Orographic map of Sri Lanka  Step 1: Download Digital Elevation Model of the Sri Lanka - First of all, we have to download a netCDF file for the digital elevation model of the Sri Lanka.  Downloading the Digital Elevation Model - You Can See a window as follows. Input the Maximum and Minimum Longitude and Latitude in shown no 1 as follows. Then give the path to save netCDF file. (It stores in Documents file as default.) - If we follow the steps correctly, it shows that files are downloading in the bottom ...

How to Visualize station daily rainfall data using CDT

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Introduction CDT is a free and open-source R package. It was developed as part of the Enhancing National Climate Services (ENACTS) initiative by the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), part of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.  We can use CDT to work with climate data such as visualize data in charts and maps. Following are the steps to visualize data in CDT. Step 1 - Open the data file in CDT We have to convert our data file into CDT data file to work with CDT. That file should be .csv file format. See this link below. http://fectdata.blogspot.com/2020/10/how-to-open-data-file-in-cdt.html Step 2 - Convert the data file into CDT file format There is a file format to work with CDT. Therefore we have to convert our station data file into CDT file format.  Use the following path to convert the file to CDT format.     -  Data Preparation → Format CDT input Station Data. Make the following settings in the dialog box that appears....