<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">That method didn't work for me sometimes as it was complaining because the variable that I was plotting had lat/lon attributes attached. But it should work most of the times.<div class="">Cheers</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 17 May 2017, at 12:55, Karin Meier-Fleischer &lt;<a href="mailto:meier-fleischer@dkrz.de" class="">meier-fleischer@dkrz.de</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
  
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    Hi Cunbo and Guido,<br class="">
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    the simple way to do that is:<br class="">
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    <font color="#3333ff" class=""><tt class="">&nbsp; xvalues = (/ -10,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; -5,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        5,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 10/)</tt><tt class=""><br class="">
      </tt><tt class="">&nbsp; xlabels = (/"-10km", "-5km", "0km", "5km", "10km"/)</tt><tt class=""><br class="">
      </tt><tt class="">&nbsp;</tt><tt class=""><br class="">
      </tt><tt class="">&nbsp; res@tmXBMode&nbsp;&nbsp; = "Explicit"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ;-- set x-axis
        labeling to explicit</tt><tt class=""><br class="">
      </tt><tt class="">&nbsp; res@tmXBValues =&nbsp; xvalues&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ;-- values for
        x-axis tickmarks</tt><tt class=""><br class="">
      </tt><tt class="">&nbsp; res@tmXBLabels =&nbsp; xlabels&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ;-- set labels equal
        to values (type string)</tt></font><br class="">
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    Bye,<br class="">
    Karin<br class="">
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 17.05.17 um 09:45 schrieb Guido
      Cioni:<br class="">
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      Hey Cunbo,
      <div class="">that's a problem that I faced many times and I
        haven't found a clean solution, yet. All the methods that I've
        used to manually define the labels have failed somehow. The
        "easy" solution that I'm using now is to define a new variable
        for your axis and then use that for plotting.</div>
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      <div class="">I believe you also have, like me, some coordinate
        informations in the x and y axis although the domain is
        idealized, that is defined only in terms of grid resolution,
        right? So what I've done was:</div>
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      <div class=""><font class="" face="Menlo" size="1">; 1 - defining
          the half-lenght of the two axis (in your case 10 km)</font></div>
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        <div class=""><font class="" face="Menlo" size="1">half_lenght_x=10.</font></div>
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      <div class="">
        <div class=""><font class="" face="Menlo" size="1">half_lenght_y=10.</font></div>
      </div>
      <div class=""><font class="" face="Menlo" size="1"><br class="">
        </font></div>
      <div class=""><font class="" face="Menlo" size="1">; 2 - manually
          compute the two axis as km</font></div>
      <div class=""><font class="" face="Menlo" size="1">; using the
          longitude and latitude arrays from</font></div>
      <div class=""><font class="" face="Menlo" size="1">; your input
          File</font></div>
      <div class=""><font class="" face="Menlo" size="1"><br class="">
        </font></div>
      <div class="">
        <div class=""><font class="" face="Menlo" size="1">&nbsp;dist_x:=(half_lenght_x/180.)*(File-&gt;lon)</font></div>
        <div class=""><font class="" face="Menlo" size="1">&nbsp;dist_x@units=
            "km"</font></div>
        <div class=""><font class="" face="Menlo" size="1">&nbsp;dist_x@long_name
            = "Distance"</font></div>
        <div class=""><font class="" face="Menlo" size="1">&nbsp;dist_x@standard_name
            = "distance"</font></div>
        <div class=""><font class="" face="Menlo" size="1"><br class="">
          </font></div>
        <div class="">
          <div class=""><font class="" face="Menlo" size="1">&nbsp;dist_y:=(half_lenght_y/90.)*(File-&gt;lat)</font></div>
          <div class=""><font class="" face="Menlo" size="1">&nbsp;dist_y@units=
              "km"</font></div>
          <div class=""><font class="" face="Menlo" size="1">&nbsp;dist_y@long_name
              = "Distance"</font></div>
          <div class=""><font class="" face="Menlo" size="1">&nbsp;dist_y@standard_name
              = "distance"</font></div>
        </div>
        <div class=""><font class="" face="Menlo" size="1"><br class="">
          </font></div>
        <div class=""><font class="" face="Menlo" size="1">; 3 - use
            these two variables, which will have the same dimension as
            the coordinate variables, to plot</font></div>
        <div class=""><font class="" face="Menlo" size="1">&nbsp;ResC@sfXArray
            := dist_x</font></div>
        <div class=""><font class="" face="Menlo" size="1">&nbsp;ResC@sfYArray
            := dist_y&nbsp;</font></div>
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      <div class="">Note that you will need to remove any reference to
        the old coordinate variables from the variable that you're
        plotting (so any attribute...).</div>
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      <div class="">Hope that helps</div>
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            <div class="">On 17 May 2017, at 09:28, Cunbo HAN &lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:hancbo@gmail.com" class="">hancbo@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</div>
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                ncl-talk,<br class="">
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                I am doing a contour plot with “gsn_csm_contour_map” and
                I want to setup XY labels manually. Like in the attached
                plot, how can I change the XBLabels “10w, 5w, 0, 5E,
                10E” to “-10km, -5km, 0km, 5km, 10km “? Does anyone know
                how to modify this? Thanks very much!
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                <div class="">Best,</div>
                <div class="">Cunbo
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