[ncl-talk] ZOOMING INTO REGION OF INTEREST USING WRFUserARW.ncl

[afwande juliet]

Thanks Adams;
it worked but some boundaries are funny

Afwande


On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Adam Phillips <asphilli at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Hi Afwande,
> Looking at your script, you have this:
>   mpOutlineBoundarySets             = "National"
>   mpDataBaseVersion                 = "MediumRes"
>   mpFillOn                          = True
>   mpProjection                      = "Mercator"
>
> I think you want those lines to look like this:
>   mpres at mpOutlineBoundarySets             = "National"
>   mpres at mpDataBaseVersion                 = "MediumRes"
>   mpres at mpFillOn                          = False
>   mpres at mpProjection                      = "Mercator"
>
> If that does not fix the problem please let ncl-talk know.
> Adam
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 10:00 PM, afwande juliet <afwandej965 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Mary, I have tried increasing the line thickness but still not
>> showing the country outline and national borders.
>> I have tried to set National boundaries but still I cant get the national
>> countries borders and entire domain clearly for East Africa. Could the
>> issue be WRF or NCL?.
>> Some one to help. The figure I get is attached and the script.
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Afwande,
>>>
>>> My apologies if this has already been answered.
>>>
>>> I think the issue is simply that the WRF plotting routines make the
>>> outlines pretty faint and hard to see.  They use a color of "gray", and a
>>> thickness of 0.5, which is half the normal line thickness for map outlines.
>>>
>>> If you want to see the outlines better, you can set the map outline
>>> colors to black, and/or increase the line thickness to something higher
>>> than 0.5, like 1.0 or even 2.0.
>>>
>>> To make sure I get all of them, I usually set:
>>>
>>>   mpres at mpGeophysicalColor          = "black"
>>>   mpres at mpNationalLineColor         = "black"
>>>   mpres at mpUSStateLineColor          = "black"
>>>   mpres at mpGeophysicalLineThicknessF = 1.5
>>>   mpres at mpNationalLineThicknessF    = 1.5
>>>   mpres at mpUSStateLineThicknessF     = 1.5
>>>
>>> --Mary
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 11:18 AM, afwande juliet <afwandej965 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Ncl users. I run WRF for 9hrs and when plotting over my area of
>>>> interestest(domain), I don't see the political boundaries and geographical
>>>> features like lakes are not displayed. I checked from WRF
>>>> WRFUserARW.ncl
>>>> <http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/WRF_arw/WRFUserARW.shtml>
>>>> functions sites specifically  wrf_map_zoom and wrf_map_Resources but still
>>>> i don't see what I want getting plotted .
>>>> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/WRF_arw/index.shtml
>>>>
>>>> Is there anyone with Idea. Thanks
>>>>
>>>> I have attached my modified script and sample plots
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Afwande
>>>>
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