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Wind vector rotation troubles (rotate_vector)
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I am currently working with a gridded data set that has its wind vectors already in an earth-relative frame. When looking to rotate the wind vectors appropriately for plotting on a Basemap projection I've run into a strange problem where the vectors, quite simply, look rather odd. I ran a few tests with simple test points to make sure the `rotate_vector` routine appeared to be working correctly, and it seemed fine. But when I run a whole model output grid through the `rotate_vector` routine, it seems to produce wind fields which don't look quite right (see below).

Here are some stats associated with the point that has the red star on the plot with the title 'Rotated vectors'
```
Lat and Lon: 39.11, -70.0144
Original U and V: 1.30, 7.14
Rotated U and V: -1.33 , 7.13
```
Now note how the rotated wind at this point is aligned along the -70 meridian, which would suggest that in earth relative terms we might expect the wind components to be more along the lines of u=0 and v=7. However, judging from above that's certainly not the case.
Now, if I rotate that same vector, _by itself_, I get the following rotated wind:
`Rotated U and V: -0.03 7.26`
And see the second plot for a visual:

It would seem desirable to have the same behavior for the single point that we have for the gridded set of winds.
The only thing special about the gridded data, that I have noticed, is that the latitudes can vary in a non-standard way with increasing x dimension, west to east (e.g. 35.5N, 34.2N, 33.1N, 36.2N, etc.). It wasn't clear if this was okay within `rotate_vector`. In some simple tests it didn't seem to be a problem.
It would be nice to be able to use this routine for not only a set of gridded data, but observations as well. It's worth noting that observations wouldn't necessarily be ordered in a nice, regular way given the nature that observations tend to be irregularly spaced (e.g. surface stations co-located with airports).
Unfortunately I don't have any suggestions for a solution, but am hopeful others may have an idea.
Below is the snippet of code used to generate the first plot above.
Thanks!
Jacob
```
import nemsio
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap
# Get the input file
f='restart_file'
nio=nemsio.nemsfile(f)
skip=25
u10=u[::skip,::skip,0]
v10=v[::skip,::skip,0]
lats=nio.lats[::skip,::skip]
lons=nio.lons[::skip,::skip]
# Create the figure
fig=plt.figure(figsize=(18, 6))
# Domain covers NE CONUS
llcrnrlon=-84.0
llcrnrlat=35.0
urcrnrlon=-60.0
urcrnrlat=49.0
res='l'
m = Basemap(llcrnrlon=llcrnrlon,llcrnrlat=llcrnrlat,urcrnrlon=urcrnrlon,urcrnrlat=urcrnrlat,\
rsphere=(6378137.00,6356752.3142),\
resolution=res,projection='lcc',\
lat_1=25.0,lon_0=-95.0)
#The vector rotation to the Basemap projection just specified
u10_rot, v10_rot, x, y = m.rotate_vector(u10, v10, lons, lats, returnxy=True)
parallels = np.arange(-80.,90,5.)
meridians = np.arange(0.,360.,5.)
# - First sublot is without rotation
ax = fig.add_subplot(121)
ax.set_title('Without rotation')
m.drawmapboundary(fill_color='aqua')
m.fillcontinents(color='#cc9955', lake_color='aqua', zorder = 0)
m.drawcoastlines(color = '0.15')
m.drawparallels(parallels)
m.drawmeridians(meridians)
m.barbs(x, y, u10, v10, pivot='middle', barbcolor='black',zorder=10)
# - Second subplot is with rotation
ax = fig.add_subplot(122)
ax.set_title('Rotated vectors')
m.drawmapboundary(fill_color='aqua')
m.fillcontinents(color='#cc9955', lake_color='aqua', zorder = 0)
m.drawcoastlines(color = '0.15')
m.drawparallels(parallels)
m.drawmeridians(meridians)
m.barbs(x, y, u10_rot, v10_rot,
pivot='middle', barbcolor='black',zorder=10)
m.scatter(-70.0144,39.11,s=175,color='red',marker='*',latlon=True)
```
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首先复现提供的 Basemap 示例,并比较 m.rotate_vector 对单个点和切片后的网格数组的结果。调查该例程如何处理非标准的二维纬度网格和不规则的观测坐标;当旋转行为一致,或已明确确定支持的坐标约束时,即视为完成。
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