<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Nisha,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">What about simply filling the continents in a dull grey color, and making sure they get drawn last so it covers up any land contours? Or, do you really need to not plot the data over land?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">See the "mask_2.ncl" example at:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/mask.shtml#ex2">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/mask.shtml#ex2</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style>--Mary</div><div class="gmail_default" style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Manisha Ganeshan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:manisha.ganeshan86@gmail.com" target="_blank">manisha.ganeshan86@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I'm plotting data on a coarse resolution (2 deg. lat. X 10 deg. lon) polar stereographic projection but I want to mask out the continents. I tried masking my data using <i>landsea_mask</i> but this masks out some of the ocean points as well (because of the coarse resolution of my grid). I'm wondering if there are any plotting resources to simply avoid plotting data over the continents? </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Nisha</div><div><br></div><div>P.S I also tried gsn_csm_contour_map_overlay to overlay the NCL 1X1 degree landsea_mask file directly onto my map. This works better but I am forced to use the same color table. I'd like the continents to have a dull grey color which is completely different from the color table I'm using for plotting my data.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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