[ncl-talk] Contour Plot Help

Dennis Shea shea at ucar.edu
Mon Sep 14 11:44:14 MDT 2015


Before the plot = ..

   printVarSummary(var)
   printMinMax(var,0)

Why did you comment out the mpMinLatF, etc resources?

Please always include this information when sending questions to ncl-talk.

Also ... the version of NCL you are using.

ncl -V

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On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Adam Phillips <asphilli at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Hi Mariama,
> My guess is that you have either a very high resolution grid and/or a very
> noisy data array, and NCL is warning you that the output graphic is
> exceeding the maximum size that is set.
>
> See the FAQ page here:
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/FAQ/#err_msgs_012
>
> The solutions are:
> 1) Increase your work station size as the FAQ describes.
> 2) Change your contour settings. If it would be better to set non-regular
> levels you can set cnLevelSelectionMode = "ExplicitLevels" and set cnLevels
> to   (/200,300,340,380,420,460,500/)  (Those levels are a complete guess.)
> 3) If it is a very high resolution grid you can try plotting every other
> point or every third point using ::2 or ::3 syntax.
>
> If none of those solutions help please let the ncl-talk email list know.
> Adam
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Mariama Barr - Dallas <bama4 at umbc.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> Everytime I try to manually set the contour spacing to a value  40.0 and
>> below, I get a
>> "fatal:ContourPlotDraw: Workspace reallocation would exceed maximum size
>> 100000000" error. Below is my code:
>>
>>
>>
>>>> --
>> Mariama Barr-Dallas
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>> Computer Science Major, History Major
>> University of Maryland Baltimore County
>> Class of 2015
>>
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