[ncl-talk] Can't figure out how to increase thickness of the lines in the legend
Ruksana Abedin
ruksana.abedin at gmail.com
Mon Jan 25 10:48:42 MST 2016
Dear Adam and Dennis,
Thanks a lot, using lgLineThicknessF did the job. Here is the new figure
with changes in color. And I will change the font later.
Best regards,
Ruksana
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On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 5:12 PM, Dennis Shea <shea at ucar.edu> wrote:
> Also, you are (I think) using Times-Roman font. I suggest that you use
> Helvetica (sharper).
> In your .hluresfile (in your home directory), add
>
> ! Font stuff
> *appClass*Font : helvetica
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Adam Phillips <asphilli at ucar.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ruksana,
>> I see that you are setting lgres at gsLineThicknessF. Have you tried
>> setting lgres at lgLineThicknessF instead?
>>
>> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/Resources/lg.shtml#lgLineThicknessF
>>
>> If that does not fix the issue let ncl-talk know..
>> Adam
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Ruksana Abedin <ruksana.abedin at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I need to increase the thickness of the lines used as the indicators of
>>> the data types (RCM, UoD, GPCC, etc.) within the legend. Otherwise, reader
>>> can not see properly the legend and finds it hard to identify the line's
>>> colour indicating for a specific data source.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions will be highly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Ruksana
>>>
>>>
>>> ;*****************************************************
>>> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl"
>>> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_csm.ncl"
>>> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/contributed.ncl"
>>> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/shea_util.ncl"
>>> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/contrib/time_axis_labels.ncl"
>>> ;*****************************************************
>>> begin
>>> ;*****************************************************
>>> ;read in data
>>> ;*****************************************************
>>> f0=addfile ("....../wah2_sas_1985_2007.part.LRBdesh.ymonmean_1_11.nc",
>>> "r");
>>> f = addfile("......./APHRO_LRBdesh_ppt_1985_2007_ymonmean_1_11.nc", "r")
>>> f1 = addfile("......./
>>> GPCC.precip.ymonmean_1_11.1985-2007.v6.360d.LRBdesh.nc","r")
>>> f2 = addfile("......../
>>> UoD.precip.360d.ymonmean.1985_2007_LRBDesh.v301.nc","r")
>>>
>>> ;*****************************************************
>>> ; parameters
>>> ;*****************************************************
>>>
>>> PPT_mod = f0->field90(:,0,:,:)
>>> PPT_mod = PPT_mod*86400
>>>
>>> PPT_obs = f->precip
>>> PPT_obs1 = f1->precip/30
>>> PPT_obs2 = f2->precip/3
>>>
>>> fldmean0 = wgt_areaave_Wrap(PPT_mod,1.0,1.0,1)
>>> fldmean = wgt_areaave_Wrap(PPT_obs,1.0,1.0,1)
>>> fldmean1 = wgt_areaave_Wrap(PPT_obs1,1.0,1.0,1)
>>> fldmean2 = wgt_areaave_Wrap(PPT_obs2,1.0,1.0,1)
>>>
>>> time = f0->time0
>>> x = PPT_mod&time0
>>> timax = dimsizes(time)-1
>>>
>>> ;--convert the time proleptic_gregorian calendar to UTC date
>>> utc_date = cd_calendar(time,0)
>>>
>>> ;-- set date variable names
>>>
>>> year = tointeger(utc_date(:,0))
>>> month = tointeger(utc_date(:,1))
>>> day = tointeger(utc_date(:,2))
>>> hour = tointeger(utc_date(:,3))
>>> minute = tointeger(utc_date(:,4))
>>> second = utc_date(:,5)
>>>
>>> ;-- write date as string (MM)
>>> date_str_i = sprinti("%0.2i",month)
>>>
>>> ;-- create the time strings, plot every axis annotation
>>> incr = 1
>>> labels = (/date_str_i(0::incr)/)
>>> labels = (/"J","F","M","A","M","J","J","A","S","O","N"/)
>>>
>>> ;-- set resources
>>> res = True
>>> res at trXMinF = time(0) ; time minimum on axis
>>> res at trXMaxF = time(timax) ; time maximum on axis
>>> res at tmXBMode = "Explicit" ; explicit time setting
>>> res at tmXBValues = PPT_mod&time0(::incr) ; axis tick position
>>> res at tmXBLabels = labels
>>>
>>>
>>> colors = (/"blue","sky blue","yellow","orange"/)
>>> lg_labels = (/"RCM","APHRODITE","GPCC","UoD"/)
>>>
>>> printVarSummary(time)
>>> printVarSummary(PPT_mod)
>>> printVarSummary(PPT_obs)
>>> printVarSummary(PPT_obs1)
>>>
>>>
>>> wks = gsn_open_wks("eps","annpptcycle")
>>>
>>> res =True
>>> res at gsnDraw = False
>>> res at gsnFrame = False
>>> res at gsnPaperOrientation = "portrait"
>>>
>>> res= True ; plot mods desired
>>> res =True
>>> res at gsnMaximize= True
>>> res at gsnDraw = False
>>> res at gsnFrame = False
>>> res at gsnPaperOrientation = "portrait"
>>>
>>>
>>> res= True ; plot mods desired
>>> res at tiMainString = "Bangladesh with Larger Region"
>>> res at tiYAxisString = "Precipitation (mm/day)"
>>> res at tiXAxisString = "months"
>>> res at xyLineThicknessF = (/6,5,5,5/)
>>> res at trYMinF = 0.0
>>> res at trYMaxF = 15.0
>>>
>>> res at xyLineColor = colors(0)
>>> plot0 = gsn_csm_xy(wks,x,fldmean0,res)
>>>
>>> res at xyLineColor = colors(1)
>>> plot1 = gsn_csm_xy(wks,x,fldmean,res)
>>>
>>> res at xyLineColor = colors(2)
>>> plot2 = gsn_csm_xy(wks,x,fldmean1,res)
>>>
>>> res at xyLineColor = colors(3)
>>> plot3 = gsn_csm_xy(wks,x,fldmean2,res)
>>>
>>> overlay(plot0,plot1)
>>> overlay(plot0,plot2)
>>> overlay(plot0,plot3)
>>>
>>>
>>> ; Attach a legend
>>>
>>> lgres = True
>>> lgres at lgLineColors = colors
>>> lgres at lgMonoItemType = True
>>> lgres at lgItemType = "Lines"
>>> lgres at lgMonoDashIndex = True
>>> lgres at lgDashIndex = "SolidLine"
>>> lgres at gsLineDashPattern = 0.
>>> lgres at gsLineThicknessF = 5.
>>> lgres at lgLabelFontHeightF = 0.25
>>> lgres at lgBoxMinorExtentF = 0.25
>>> lgres at vpWidthF = 0.25
>>> lgres at vpHeightF = 0.25
>>> lgres at pmLegendDisplayMode = "Always"
>>> lgres at pmLegendWidthF = 0.6
>>> lgres at pmLegendHeightF = 0.1
>>> lgres at xyExplicitLabels = lg_labels
>>> lgres at lgBoxMinorExtentF = 0.8
>>> lgres at lgPerimOn = False
>>> legend = gsn_create_legend(wks, 4, lg_labels, lgres)
>>>
>>> amres = True
>>> amres at amJust = "BottomRight" ; Use bottom right corner
>>> of box for determining its location.
>>> amres at amOrthogonalPosF = -0.12
>>> amres at amParallelPosF = -0.1
>>>
>>> annoid = gsn_add_annotation(plot0, legend, amres) ; add legend to
>>> plot
>>>
>>> draw(plot0)
>>>
>>> frame(wks)
>>>
>>> end
>>>
>>>
>>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Adam Phillips
>> Associate Scientist, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, NCAR
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>>
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