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NAME
grdspotter - Create CVA image from a gravity or topography grid
SYNOPSIS
grdspotter [grdfile] rotfile CVAgrid increment region [ agegrid ] [ DIgrid ] [ IDgrid ] [
] [ upper_age ] [ PAgrid ] [ IDinfo ] [ ] [ t|ufixed_val ] [ [ [level] ] [ n_try ]] [
-Zz_min[/z_max[/z_inc]] ] [ -r ]
Note: No space is allowed between the option flag and the associated arguments.
DESCRIPTION
grdspotter reads a grid file with residual bathymetry or gravity and calculates flowlines
from each node that exceeds a minimum value using the specified rotations file. These
flowlines are then convolved with the volume of the prism represented by each grid node
and added up to give a Cumulative Volcano Amplitude grid (CVA).
REQUIRED ARGUMENTS
grdfile
Data grid to be processed, typically residual bathymetry or free-air anomalies.
-Erotfile
Give file with rotation parameters. This file must contain one record for each
rotation; each record must be of the following format:
lon lat tstart [tstop] angle [ khat a b c d e f g df ]
where tstart and tstop are in Myr and lon lat angle are in degrees. tstart and
tstop are the ages of the old and young ends of a stage. If tstop is not present in
the record then a total reconstruction rotation is expected and tstop is implicitly
set to 0 and should not be specified for any of the records in the file. If a
covariance matrix C for the rotation is available it must be specified in a format
using the nine optional terms listed in brackets. Here, C = (g/khat)*[ a b d; b c
e; d e f ] which shows C made up of three row vectors. If the degrees of freedom
(df) in fitting the rotation is 0 or not given it is set to 10000. Blank lines and
records whose first column contains # will be ignored. You may prepend a leading +
to the filename to indicate you wish to invert the rotations. Alternatively, give
the filename composed of two plate IDs separated by a hyphen (e.g., PAC-MBL) and we
will instead extract that rotation from the GPlates rotation database. We return an
error if the rotation cannot be found.
-G Specify name for output CVA grid file.
-Ixinc[unit][=|+][/yinc[unit][=|+]]
x_inc [and optionally y_inc] is the grid spacing. Optionally, append a suffix
modifier. Geographical (degrees) coordinates: Append m to indicate arc minutes or s
to indicate arc seconds. If one of the units e, f, k, M, n or u is appended
instead, the increment is assumed to be given in meter, foot, km, Mile, nautical
mile or US survey foot, respectively, and will be converted to the equivalent
degrees longitude at the middle latitude of the region (the conversion depends on
PROJ_ELLIPSOID). If /y_inc is given but set to 0 it will be reset equal to x_inc;
otherwise it will be converted to degrees latitude. All coordinates: If = is
appended then the corresponding max x (east) or y (north) may be slightly adjusted
to fit exactly the given increment [by default the increment may be adjusted
slightly to fit the given domain]. Finally, instead of giving an increment you may
specify the number of nodes desired by appending + to the supplied integer
argument; the increment is then recalculated from the number of nodes and the
domain. The resulting increment value depends on whether you have selected a
gridline-registered or pixel-registered grid; see App-file-formats for details.
Note: if -Rgrdfile is used then the grid spacing has already been initialized; use
-I to override the values.
-R[unit]west/east/south/north[/zmin/zmax][r]
west, east, south, and north specify the region of interest, and you may specify
them in decimal degrees or in [+-]dd:mm[:ss.xxx][W|E|S|N] format. Append r if lower
left and upper right map coordinates are given instead of w/e/s/n. The two
shorthands -Rg and -Rd stand for global domain (0/360 and -180/+180 in longitude
respectively, with -90/+90 in latitude). Alternatively for grid creation, give
Rcodelon/lat/nx/ny, where code is a 2-character combination of L, C, R (for left,
center, or right) and T, M, B for top, middle, or bottom. e.g., BL for lower left.
This indicates which point on a rectangular region the lon/lat coordinate refers
to, and the grid dimensions nx and ny with grid spacings via -I is used to create
the corresponding region. Alternatively, specify the name of an existing grid file
and the -R settings (and grid spacing, if applicable) are copied from the grid.
Using -Runit expects projected (Cartesian) coordinates compatible with chosen -J
and we inversely project to determine actual rectangular geographic region. For
perspective view (-p), optionally append /zmin/zmax. In case of perspective view
(-p), a z-range (zmin, zmax) can be appended to indicate the third dimension. This
needs to be done only when using the -Jz option, not when using only the -p option.
In the latter case a perspective view of the plane is plotted, with no third
dimension.
OPTIONAL ARGUMENTS
-Aagegrid
Supply a crustal age grid that is co-registered with the input data grid. These
ages become the upper ages to use when constructing flowlines [Default extend
flowlines back to oldest age found in the rotation file; but see ].
-DDIgrid
Use flowlines to determine the maximum CVA encountered along each flowline and
create a Data Importance (DI) grid with these values at the originating nodes.
-LIDgrid
Supply a co-registered grid with seamount chain IDs for each node. This option
requires that you also use .
-M Do not attempt to keep all flowlines in memory when using -D and/or -P. Should you
run out of memory you can use this option to compute flowlines on-the-fly. It will
be slower as we no longer can reuse the flowlines calculated for the CVA step.
Cannot be used with -W or the multi-slice mode in -Z.
-Nupper_age
Set the upper age to assign to nodes whose crustal age is unknown (i.e., NaN) [no
upper age]. Also see .
-PPAgrid
Use flowlines to determine the flowline age at the CVA maximum for each node and
create a Predicted Age (PA) grid with these values at the originating nodes.
-QIDinfo
Either give (1) a single ID to use or (2) the name of a file with a list of IDs to
use [Default uses all IDs]. Each line would be TAG ID [w e s n]. The w/e/s/n zoom
box is optional; if specified it means we only trace the flowline if inside this
region [Default uses region set by -R]. Requires -L.
-S Normalize the resulting CVA grid to percentages of the CVA maximum. This also
normalizes the DI grid (if requested).
-Tt|ufixed_val
Selects ways to adjust ages; repeatable. Choose from -Tt to truncate crustal ages
given via the option that exceed the upper age set with [no truncation], or
ufixed_val which means that after a node passes the test implied by , we use this
fixed_val instead in the calculations. [Default uses individual node values].
-V[level] (more ...)
Select verbosity level [c].
-Wn_try
Get n_try bootstrap estimates of the maximum CVA location; the longitude and
latitude results are written to stdout [Default is no bootstrapping]. Cannot be
used with -M.
-Zz_min[/z_max[/z_inc]]
Ignore nodes with z-values lower than z_min [0] and optionally larger than z_max
[Inf]. Give z_min/z_max/z_inc to make separate CVA grids for each z-slice [Default
makes one CVA grid]. Multi-slicing cannot be used with -M.
-r (more ...)
Set pixel node registration [gridline].
-^ or just -
Print a short message about the syntax of the command, then exits (NOTE: on Windows
use just -).
-+ or just +
Print an extensive usage (help) message, including the explanation of any
module-specific option (but not the GMT common options), then exits.
-? or no arguments
Print a complete usage (help) message, including the explanation of options, then
exits.
--version
Print GMT version and exit.
--show-datadir
Print full path to GMT share directory and exit.
GEODETIC VERSUS GEOCENTRIC COORDIINATES
All spherical rotations are applied to geocentric coordinates. This means that incoming
data points and grids are considered to represent geodetic coordinates and must first be
converted to geocentric coordinates. Rotations are then applied, and the final
reconstructed points are converted back to geodetic coordinates. This default behavior
can be bypassed if the ellipsoid setting PROJ_ELLIPSOID is changed to Sphere.
EXAMPLES
To create a CVA image from the Pacific topography grid Pac_res_topo.nc, using the DC85.d
Euler poles, and only output a grid for the specified domain, run
gmt grdspotter Pac_res_topo.nc -EDC85.d -GCVA.nc -R190/220/15/25 -I2m -N145 -Tt -V
This file can then be plotted with grdimage.
NOTES
GMT distributes the EarthByte rotation model Global_EarthByte_230-0Ma_GK07_AREPS.rot. To
use an alternate rotation file, create an environmental parameters named GPLATES_ROTATIONS
that points to an alternate rotation file.
SEE ALSO
gmt, grdimage, project, mapproject, backtracker, hotspotter, originator
REFERENCES
Wessel, P., 1999, "Hotspotting" tools released, EOS Trans. AGU, 80 (29), p. 319.
Wessel, P., 2008, Hotspotting: Principles and properties of a plate tectonic Hough
transform, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 9(Q08004): doi:10.1029/2008GC002058.
COPYRIGHT
2015, P. Wessel, W. H. F. Smith, R. Scharroo, J. Luis, and F. Wobbe