<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi Laura,<br><br></div>It seems something somewhere is referencing that BlueWhiteOrangeRed.rgb colortable, even if you are using your own. I don't know offhand if this is a default behavior somewhere or if its unintentional. Do you reference it in an .hluresfile, perhaps?<br><br>But in any case, I think Kyle's right -- the solution is to include the default colormap in addition to your own:<br><br></div>export NCARG_COLORMAPS=/glade/u/home/laura:$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/colormaps<br><br></div>HTH...<br></div>Rick<br><br><div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Laura Fowler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:laura@ucar.edu" target="_blank">laura@ucar.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Kyle:<br>
I always use my own color table (colorTable.rbg in my home directory),<br>
and I do not need to use the default color tables. Thanks for your<br>
suggestion anyway,<br>
Laura<br>
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On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Kyle Griffin <<a href="mailto:ksgriffin2@wisc.edu">ksgriffin2@wisc.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
> Laura,<br>
><br>
> You need to be sure to include the default colormaps directory in your path<br>
> as well, or move all of NCL's colormaps into the one directory you have set.<br>
> Since you don't include that directory, most of the default colormaps will<br>
> not work.<br>
><br>
> See:<br>
> <a href="http://ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/create_color_table.shtml#MoveColorTableFile" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/create_color_table.shtml#MoveColorTableFile</a><br>
><br>
><br>
> Kyle<br>
><br>
> ----------------------------------------<br>
> Kyle S. Griffin<br>
> Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences<br>
> University of Wisconsin - Madison<br>
> Room 1421<br>
> 1225 W Dayton St, Madison, WI 53706<br>
> Email: <a href="mailto:ksgriffin2@wisc.edu">ksgriffin2@wisc.edu</a><br>
><br>
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Laura Fowler <<a href="mailto:laura@ucar.edu">laura@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hi:<br>
>> For the last week or so, I have trouble with setting NCARG_COLORMAPS<br>
>> on yellowstone to use my color table /glade/u/home/laura/colorTable. I<br>
>> have:<br>
>><br>
>> [laura@yslogin5 QUASI-UNIFORM]$ echo $NCARG_ROOT<br>
>> /glade/apps/opt/ncl/6.3.0/intel/12.1.5<br>
>><br>
>> and<br>
>><br>
>> echo $NCARG_COLORMAPS<br>
>> /glade/u/home/laura<br>
>><br>
>> I get the error:<br>
>> fatal:CvtStringToCmap:Unable to convert string "BlueWhiteOrangeRed" to<br>
>> ColorMap<br>
>> warning:Error retrieving resource wkColorMap from DB - Using default value<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> This error seems to be recent as I have used that color table without<br>
>> any issue in the last few weeks. I am not sure what I am doing wrong<br>
>> and need a few hints to help figure this one out.<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks,<br>
>> Laura<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
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>> National Center for Atmospheric Research<br>
>> P.O. Box 3000, Boulder CO 80307-3000<br>
>><br>
>> e-mail: <a href="mailto:laura@ucar.edu">laura@ucar.edu</a><br>
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