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pssolar - Plot day-light terminators and other sunlight parameters

pssolar [ -B[p|s]parameters ] [ -C ] [ -Gfill|c ] [ -I[lon/lat][+ddate][+zTZ] ] [ -Jparameters ] [ -K ] [ -M ] [ -N ] [ -O ] [ -P ] [ -Q ] [ -Rregion ] [ -Tdcna[+ddate][+zTZ]] [ -U[stamp] ] [ -V[level] ] [ -Wpen ] [ -Xx_offset ] [ -Yy_offset ] [ -bobinary ] [ -hheaders ] [ -oflags ] [ -pflags ] [ -ttransp ]

Note: No space is allowed between the option flag and the associated arguments.

pssolar Calculate and plot the day-night terminator and the civil, nautical and astronomical twilights.

There are no required arguments but either -I or -T must be selected.

Set map boundary frame and axes attributes.

Formats the report selected by -I using tab-separated fields on a single line. The output is Sun Lon Lat Azimuth Elevation in degrees, Sunrise Sunset Noon in decimal days, day length in minutes, SolarElevationCorrected corrected for the effect of refraction index and Equation of time in minutes. Note that if no position is provided in -Ilon/lat the data after Elevation refers to the point (0,0).

Select color or pattern for filling of terminators; or use -Gc for clipping [Default is no fill]. Deactivate clipping by appending the output of gmt psclip -C.

Print current sun position as well as Azimuth and Elevation. Append lon/lat to print also the times of Sunrise, Sunset, Noon and length of the day. Add +ddate in ISO format, e.g, +d2000-04-25, to compute sun parameters for this date. If necessary, append time zone via +zTZ.

Select map projection.

Do not finalize the PostScript plot.

Write terminator(s) as a multisegment ASCII (or binary, see -bo) file to standard output. No plotting occurs.

Invert the sense of what is inside and outside the terminator. Only used with clipping (-Gc) and cannot be used together with -B.

Append to existing PostScript plot.

Select "Portrait" plot orientation.

Specify the region of interest.

Plot (or dump; see -M) one or more terminators defined via the dcna flags. Where: d means day/night terminator; c means civil twilight; n means nautical twilight; a means astronomical twilight. Add +ddate in ISO format, e.g, +d2000-04-25T12:15:00 to know where the day-night was at that date. If necessary, append time zone via +zTZ.

Draw GMT time stamp logo on plot.

Select verbosity level [c].

Set pen attributes for lines or the outline of symbols [Defaults: width = default, color = black, style = solid].

-X[a|c|f|r][x-shift[u]]

Shift plot origin.

Select native binary output.

Skip or produce header record(s).

Select output columns (0 is first column).

Select perspective view.

Set PDF transparency level in percent.

Print current Sun position and Sunrise, Sunset times at:

gmt pssolar -I-7.93/37.079+d2016-02-04T10:01:00




Plot the day-night and civil twilight

gmt pscoast -Rd -W0.1p -JQ0/14c -Ba -BWSen -Dl -A1000 -P -K > terminator.ps
gmt pssolar -R -J -W1p -Tdc -O >> terminator.ps




Set up a clip path overlay based on the day/night terminator:

gmt pssolar -R -J -Gc -Tc -O -K >> someplot.ps




gmt, psclip, pscoast, psxy

2019, P. Wessel, W. H. F. Smith, R. Scharroo, J. Luis, and F. Wobbe

May 21, 2019 5.4.5