• WRF kF_ETA errors and possible solutions

    This is a short reference of possible causes for the kf-eta-related errors: WOULD GO OFF TOP: KF_ETA_PARA ... There are many suggested solutions for these but I always manage to find some new way to produce these crashes. Commonly suggested causes/solutions I’ve found these solutions listed on various web-pages Move...


  • EncFS, Dropbox and broken files

    If you’ve used EncFS together with a file-syncing service, you might have ended up with corrupt files that are difficult to recover. If the encrypted file becomes corrupt for some reason, it can be very hard to recover your data. Some services allow you to revert your files to a...


  • Plotting wind vectors in NCL

    A long day of banging my head against the screen… NCL is such a handy toolbox to have, it can create ok-looking geographic plots with almost no work at all. It can also be used to create awesome, super specialized plots if you want it to… (Rant-warning) …as long as...


  • The new OpenNEX/Planet OS data portal

    A while back, I was asked by a colleague to help download some scientific data. What struck me as weird was that the procedure outlined on the web-page involved deploying a docker image. The data was a subset from a global climate simulation, which can be generated at the OpenNEX...


  • Please, no more jet

    When I wrote my bachelor thesis in 2009, I was a big fan of jet, the go–to colormap for many scientist. I guess a big reason why it ever became popular was that it was the default colormap in matlab. In addition, it’s quite pretty to look, unless you actually...