<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,<br><br></div>I'm not sure I understand the follow-on question regarding cnFillDrawOrder. Examples 4 and 5 at the following link show how to mask grids/data using a shapefile -- is that what you want to do?<br><br><a href="http://ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/shapefiles.shtml">http://ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/shapefiles.shtml</a><br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 5:58 PM, Manisha Ganeshan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:manisha.ganeshan86@gmail.com" target="_blank">manisha.ganeshan86@gmail.com</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">Thanks, Rick! I've downloaded the shapefile, and am able to plot an accurate version of Antarctica's coastline.<div><br><div>Presently, I use cnFillDrawOrder = predraw for masking out the continents. I'm wondering if there's a way to direct this function to use the shapefile for masking the continent instead of the default "DataBase" version. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Manisha <br></div></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Rick Brownrigg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brownrig@ucar.edu" target="_blank">brownrig@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><div><div><div><div>Hi Manisha,<br><br></div>We generally recommend shapefiles as a source of more up-to-date, higher-res map-data. There is a shapefile for Antarctica at:<br><br></div> <a href="http://gadm.org" target="_blank">gadm.org</a><br><br></div>There are also a number of examples of using shapefiles with NCL at:<br><br> <a href="http://ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/shapefiles.shtml" target="_blank">http://ncl.ucar.edu/Applicatio<wbr>ns/shapefiles.shtml</a><br><br></div>Hope that helps...<br><br></div>Rick<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_1992343369774753297h5">On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Manisha Ganeshan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:manisha.ganeshan86@gmail.com" target="_blank">manisha.ganeshan86@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="m_1992343369774753297h5"><div dir="ltr">Hello NCL'ers,<div><br></div><div>I've tried plotting the Antarctic continental map outline using the default database, and the "MediumRes" database using mpDataBaseVersion. But the plot seems to be plotting the Ronne-Filchner ice-shelf in W. Antarctic, as part of the continent. Any idea what database I can use to plot the correct continental outline?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Manisha<span class="m_1992343369774753297m_-2237356069657792420HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_1992343369774753297m_-2237356069657792420m_625631853046265767gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Dr. Manisha Ganeshan<div>Universities Space Research Association</div><div>Maryland, U.S.A.</div></div></div>
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