<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Thanks a lot, Mary!<br></div>I will try this approach and see how it works for my dataset.<br></div><div>It is great to know that a new release of NCL is coming up! NCL is great, and you guys are the best in helping users.<br></div>Best regards,<br></div>Mariangel.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 11:02 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:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Mariangel,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Sorry for the delay in response. We are very busy trying to get a new release of NCL out the door. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The problem is that these two pieces of code that generate the vector reference boxes are not related to each other, so I'm not sure what it's going to take to make them the same size.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">One work-around for now is to create two vector plots, one with the reference annotation box put in the lower left, and one in the lower right. You can use vcRefAnnoXXXX resources to customize each of these boxes.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">You can then overlay the two plots and draw them as one. See the attached script which will hopefully help you get started.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">--Mary</div></font></span><div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Mariangel Fedrizzi - NOAA Affiliate <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mariangel.fedrizzi@noaa.gov" target="_blank">mariangel.fedrizzi@noaa.gov</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><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi All,<br><br></div>I have not heard from anybody since last Thursday, so I'm sending more info about my question in case that helps.<br><br></div>In the figure below, I've used:<br><br> res@vcRefMagnitudeF = 400.0 ; vec magnitude<br> res@vcRefLengthF = 0.04 ; size of ref vector<br><br></div>to plot the black vectors, from a netcdf file, where I had values for all lat lon grids. I used mainly the examples in <a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/polar.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applic<wbr>ations/polar.shtml</a> to create that map.<br><br></div>However, I had to overplot on that map vectors from a satellite pass (white vectors on the plot), where I had an ascii file with lat, lon, Veast, Vnorth. For that, I used:<br><br> wmsetp("vrs - size of reference vector in user space", 400.)<br> wmsetp("vrn - size of reference vector on plot in NDC space", 0.07)<br><br></div>following the example in <a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/Images/weather_sym_9_lg.png" target="_blank">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applic<wbr>ations/Images/weather_sym_9_lg<wbr>.png</a> and <a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/Scripts/weather_sym_9.ncl" target="_blank">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applic<wbr>ations/Scripts/weather_sym_9.n<wbr>cl</a>.<br><br></div>My question is how can I make the white vector with the same size and label format (not scientific notation) as the black vector?<br><br></div>I've used: <br><br> wmvectmap(wks, lat, lon, Veast, Vnorth) ; Plot vectors.<br><br></div>to overplot the white vectors on the map. Is this the best procedure for this case, or there are others that have more resources?<br><br></div>Thanks,<br></div>Mariangel.<br><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><br><br><br><br><br><img alt="Inline image 1" src="cid:ii_15a38658533af937" height="561" width="505"><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div class="m_-4960287312782493200h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Mariangel Fedrizzi - NOAA Affiliate <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mariangel.fedrizzi@noaa.gov" target="_blank">mariangel.fedrizzi@noaa.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>I'm looking at the example <a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/Scripts/weather_sym_9.ncl" target="_blank">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applic<wbr>ations/Scripts/weather_sym_9.n<wbr>cl</a>, and see that the reference vector in the label (<a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/Images/weather_sym_9_lg.png" target="_blank">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Appli<wbr>cations/Images/weather_sym_9_l<wbr>g.png</a>) is 0.35E+02. <br><br>Is there a way to set the reference vector in the label with the same value it is set in the script weather_sym_9.ncl, i.e. 40.0:<br><br>wmsetp("vrs - size of reference vector in user space", 40.)<br><br></div><div><div><div></div><div>Also, it there a way to change from scientific notation to float in the label box?<br><br></div><div>Any suggestions on how to proceed?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,<br></div><div>Mariangel.<br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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