<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks Mary, my problem is solved. My simple error was that typing</div><div><br></div><div> mpres@mpGeophysicalColor = "Black" ........Syntax error</div><div><br></div><div>instead of </div><div><br></div><div> mpres@mpGeophysicalLineColor = "Black"........correct syntax</div><div> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Mary Haley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:haley@ucar.edu" target="_blank">haley@ucar.edu</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"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">[Adam, good catch on the resource errors.]</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Afwande,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">It looks like some of your map outlines are still being drawn in gray, which is the default used by the wrf_xxxx plotting functions. If you want them to be something other than gray, you need to set the three "LineColor" resources I mentioned previously:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> mpres@mpGeophysicalColor = "black"</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> mpres@mpNationalLineColor = "black"</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> mpres@mpUSStateLineColor = "black"</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div></span><div class="gmail_default">If you want them all gray, then don't set these resources at all.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">If you continue to have problems, then email ncl-talk and include the new version of your script.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">--Mary</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div></font></span></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 3:22 AM, afwande juliet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:afwandej965@gmail.com" target="_blank">afwandej965@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr"><div>the uniformity; some are black some are brown; I don't know where the problem is coming from </div><div><br></div><div>thanks</div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 2:20 AM, afwande juliet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:afwandej965@gmail.com" target="_blank">afwandej965@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks Adams;</div><div>it worked but some boundaries are funny</div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Afwande</div><div><br></div></font></span></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Adam Phillips <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:asphilli@ucar.edu" target="_blank">asphilli@ucar.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr">Hi Afwande,<div>Looking at your script, you have this:</div><div><div> mpOutlineBoundarySets = "National" </div><div> mpDataBaseVersion = "MediumRes"</div><div> mpFillOn = True </div><div> mpProjection = "Mercator"</div></div><div><br></div><div>I think you want those lines to look like this:</div><div><div> mpres@mpOutlineBoundarySets = "National" </div><div> mpres@mpDataBaseVersion = "MediumRes"</div><div> mpres@mpFillOn = False</div><div> mpres@mpProjection = "Mercator"</div></div><div><br></div><div>If that does not fix the problem please let ncl-talk know.</div><div>Adam</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 10:00 PM, afwande juliet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:afwandej965@gmail.com" target="_blank">afwandej965@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks Mary, I have tried increasing the line thickness but still not showing the country outline and national borders.</div><div>I have tried to set National boundaries but still I cant get the national countries borders and entire domain clearly for East Africa. Could the issue be WRF or NCL?.</div><div>Some one to help. The figure I get is attached and the script.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Mary Haley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:haley@ucar.edu" target="_blank">haley@ucar.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Afwande,<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">My apologies if this has already been answered.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I think the issue is simply that the WRF plotting routines make the outlines pretty faint and hard to see. They use a color of "gray", and a thickness of 0.5, which is half the normal line thickness for map outlines.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">If you want to see the outlines better, you can set the map outline colors to black, and/or increase the line thickness to something higher than 0.5, like 1.0 or even 2.0.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">To make sure I get all of them, I usually set:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> mpres@mpGeophysicalColor = "black"</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> mpres@mpNationalLine</font><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Color = "black"</span><font face="monospace, monospace"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> mpres@mpUSStateLine</font><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Color = "black"</span></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> mpres@mpGeophysicalLineThicknessF = 1.5</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> mpres@mpNationalLineThicknessF = 1.5<br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> mpres@mpUSStateLineThicknessF = 1.5</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">--Mary</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 11:18 AM, afwande juliet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:afwandej965@gmail.com" target="_blank">afwandej965@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Ncl users. I run WRF for 9hrs and when plotting over my area of interestest(domain), I don't see the political boundaries and geographical features like lakes are not displayed. I checked from WRF <a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/WRF_arw/WRFUserARW.shtml" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">WRFUserARW.ncl</font></a> functions sites specifically wrf_map_zoom and wrf_map_Resources but still i don't see what I want getting plotted .<a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/WRF_arw/index.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/WRF_arw/index.shtml</a></div><div><br></div><div>Is there anyone with Idea. Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>I have attached my modified script and sample plots </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks </div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Afwande</div></font></span></div>
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