<div dir="ltr">HI Mary:<div><br></div><div>Thank you for your advice.</div><div><br></div><div>I found the answer on the web. It's a Lambert Conformal Grid...</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/lcnative.shtml">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/lcnative.shtml</a><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 7:52 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">Hi Barry,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">If plots are not displaying properly after they are overlaid on another, usually the first thing I suspect is that the two plots are not in the same data space.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">But first, is this data rectilinear? The reason I ask is that I see you are reading lat/lon off the file, but they are not used in the plotting. If you're not sure what I mean by rectilinear, please see the description at the top of this page:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/plot_data_on_map.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/<wbr>Applications/plot_data_on_map.<wbr>shtml</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Then, scroll down to the first example, which explains how to tell if your data is rectilinear or not.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Your filled contours over the map are roughly in the range 10 to 60 lat, and -150 to -55 lon. You didn't include the plot of the 700 mb contours, but I would look at the X/Y axis of the plot of this data to see what range it's in. Also, if you look at your data with:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">printVarSummary(pett_fgen)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">printVarSummary(z_plane)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">this should provide information about coordinate arrays and their ranges, *if you have rectilinear data* This is another way to double-check that the two datasets are in the same data space.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">If you continue to have problems, can you email ncl-talk with the output results from the two printVarSummary statements, and also include the plot of z_plane?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thanks,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></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 class="h5">On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Barry Lynn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:barry.h.lynn@gmail.com" target="_blank">barry.h.lynn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Hello:<div><br></div><div>I have moved away from using wrf interfaces for plotting and am simply trying to plot relative humidity and height at 700 mb from the NAM data (yesterday, Guido explained untangled my question about getting the variables I needed from the files themselves).</div><div><br></div><div>If I comment out overlay and draw(contour_fgen, below, and uncomment draw(contour_z), I get a plot without any country/state line references, but I get perfect 700 mb contours.</div><div><br></div><div>However, if I run the program as is, I get only a single height line superimposed on the relative humidity map (as shown).</div><div><br></div><div>Clearly, something I have done is acting at cross purposes, but I various tweaks I've made (adding/removing code) have not solved the problem.</div><div><br></div><div>This may be a simple fix, but it would be nice to know what it is.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you.</div><div><br></div><div><div> overlay(contour_fgen,contour_z<wbr>)</div><div> draw(contour_fgen) ; this will draw both the line and filled contours over a map</div><div>; draw(contour_z) ; this will draw both the line and filled contours over a map</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_-1134922207952543989m_2945656000678765429gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Barry H. 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