[ncl-talk] two color bars, different color tables

Barry Lynn barry.h.lynn at gmail.com
Tue Jun 20 12:09:57 MDT 2017


You're welcome.

Could we trouble you to tell us the answer you found?

Thanks

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 9:05 PM, Matt Flournoy <mflournoy37 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Barry,
>
> Yes, my original problem was that I couldn't see the color bar associated
> with the trajectories. But... a coworker and I just figured it out! Thanks
> for your quick response.
>
> Best,
> Matt
>
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Barry Lynn <barry.h.lynn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi:
>>
>> Do you mean that you can't see the second color bar?
>>
>> I ask because I can see the trajectories.
>>
>> Barry
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 8:34 PM, Matt Flournoy <mflournoy37 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to plot some WRF output with surface reflectivity shading
>>> overlaid with parcel trajectories. I'd like the reflectivity to be shaded
>>> in a grayscale, and the parcel trajectories to be colored according to
>>> their height. I currently have a color bar for the shaded reflectivity, but
>>> am having trouble getting a second color bar to show the parcel heights. I
>>> think my issue might come from my use of a different color table for the
>>> trajectories than for the reflectivity, which is what I defined my
>>> workstation colormap with (MPL_Greys).
>>>
>>> I've attached the script I'm currently using and the resulting plot. I'm
>>> trying to get the height color bar (using BlAqGrYeOrReVi200) on the right
>>> side of the plot. When I run the script as is, I get this message in
>>> between my "error1" and "error2" print lines:
>>>
>>> fatal:CvtStringGenArrayToColorIndexGenArray: Unable to convert string
>>> "BlAqGrYeOrReVi200" to requested type
>>>
>>> warning:Error retrieving resource lbFillColors from args - Ignoring Arg
>>> If you remove the semicolon before the "frame(xwks2)" line, the plot
>>> will show the parcel height color bar (without the labels working...), but
>>> not the rest of the plot.
>>>
>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Matt
>>>
>>> --
>>> Matthew Flournoy
>>> M.S. Meteorology Candidate, University of Oklahoma
>>> B.S. Meteorology, Penn State University[image: Inline image 1]
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>>
>>
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>> Barry H. Lynn, Ph.D
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>> The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
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>
>
>
> --
> Matthew Flournoy
> M.S. Meteorology Candidate, University of Oklahoma
> B.S. Meteorology, Penn State University
>



-- 
Barry H. Lynn, Ph.D
Senior Lecturer,
The Institute of the Earth Science,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Tel: 972 547 231 170
Fax: (972)-25662581

C.E.O, Weather It Is, LTD
Weather and Climate Focus
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Jerusalem, Israel
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