[ncl-talk] "newcolor_14.ncl" with polar stereographic plots

Denise Worthen - NOAA Affiliate denise.worthen at noaa.gov
Thu Mar 8 12:04:23 MST 2018


Great, works perfect now. I suspected it had something to do with the
"square-ness" of the polar stereographic plots but I didn't know where to
look.

Denise.

On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 1:59 PM, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Hi Denise,
>
> ​There's a bug in this script that is causing the labelbar height to be
> used in the calculation it uses to determine the size of the individual
> plots.
>
>
> To fix this​, you need to subscript the leftmost dimension of bb to be
> "0:2", so it doesn't also grab the labelbar object:
>
>   bb     = NhlGetBB(pplots)
>   height = max(bb(0:2,0)) - min(bb(0:2,1))
>
> I think the only reason it worked for the Aitoff case is because these
> plots are not as high as the polar plots, so it wasn't running out of room
> to place all the plots. In the case of polar plots, which have the same
> width and height, it ran out of room by the time it got to the third row,
> and so it squished them to make them fit.
>
> More than you probably wanted to know, but hopefully this fix works for
> you. I've updated newcolor_14.ncl on the web to have this fix.
>
> --Mary
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 11:12 AM, Denise Worthen - NOAA Affiliate <
> denise.worthen at noaa.gov> wrote:
>
>> I edited this example script to make a NH polar stereographic projection
>> instead of the Aitoff projection. The only changes I made to to set:
>>
>>   res at gsnPolar     =  "NH"
>>   res at mpMinLatF    =  66                          ; minimum lat to plot
>>   res at mpCenterLonF = -45
>>
>> and to use  gsn_csm_contour_map_polar.
>>
>> I've attached the output. How can I alter the script to make all the
>> plots the same size?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Denise.
>>
>>
>>
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