<div dir="ltr">Hi:<div><br></div><div>I have attached a simple code that uses the color bar I wanted to use before. As I wrote yesterday, I believe that it is the WRF <i>plotting r</i>esources that interfere with the color settings (as expressed, originally, through <span class="gmail-m_7098828313415902842gmail-s1" style="font-size:12.8px">gsn_define_</span><span class="gmail-m_7098828313415902842gmail-s2" style="font-size:12.8px">col</span><span class="gmail-m_7098828313415902842gmail-s1" style="font-size:12.8px">ormap(wks,"<wbr>rainbow")</span></div><div><span class="gmail-m_7098828313415902842gmail-s1" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail-m_7098828313415902842gmail-s1" style="font-size:12.8px">Note: I combined some examples together to create the code that used my color bar. <a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Training/Tutorials/WRF_Users_Workshop/Scripts/wrf_demo_plot_tc_gsn.ncl">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Training/Tutorials/WRF_Users_Workshop/Scripts/wrf_demo_plot_tc_gsn.ncl</a></span></div><div><span class="gmail-m_7098828313415902842gmail-s1" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail-m_7098828313415902842gmail-s1"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Training/Tutorials/WRF_Users_Workshop/Scripts/wrf_demo_plot_tc_gsn_shapefiles_mask_zoom.ncl">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Training/Tutorials/WRF_Users_Workshop/Scripts/wrf_demo_plot_tc_gsn_shapefiles_mask_zoom.ncl</a></span><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail-m_7098828313415902842gmail-s1" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div>Even with the call to some WRF resources (<span class="gmail-s1" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Courier New"">wrf_map_</span><span class="gmail-s2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Courier New"">resou</span><span class="gmail-s1" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Courier New"">rces(f,res))</span>, I still was able to use the color bar -- but I used gsm_csm instead of wrf contour programs to make the map (as in the referenced programs).</div>
<div><br></div><div>To shrink the map (and not only the data), I had to turn off the call to WRF resources, and add some information about the map I wanted.</div><div><br></div><div>I am not sure if the projection is okay or not. I have attached the original map and my "zoomed" in map.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 11:45 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><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">HI:<div><br></div><div>I think I have isolated the problem.</div><div><br></div><div>(And, as I wrote in the previous e-mail -- I am sorry you had to do extra work to decipher the code I sent (the last e-mail was part of a chain, and I should have repeated pertinent information within). </div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, in the program attached, there is a line:</div><div><br></div><div>
<p class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-p1"><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-s1">gsn_define_</span><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-s2">col</span><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-s1">ormap(wks,"<wbr>rainbow")</span></p><p class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-p1"><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-s1">when commented out, you get mod_2.pdf (shades of blue). When uncommented, you get mod.pdf (a color bar the same as the "incorrect" one we tried to figure out yesterday in the original program).</span></p><p class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-p1">As noted, the mod.pdf has the same color bar as the one I mentioned yesterday. It is different than the color bar I get when plotting the observations (previous e-mail). However, the program that plots the radar observations doesn't have the gfs_define_colormap -- yet it works fine whether I use NCV_jet or define the colors explicitly.</p><p class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-p1">So, I think the issue is how to reference the color bar table when using this WRF program.</p><p class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-p1">Thank you/Have a nice weekend,</p><p class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-p1">Barry</p><p class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-p1">P.S. I am plotting a random field, although I still read the file I sent you yesterday.</p><p class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-p1"><br></p>
<p class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-p1"><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-s1"><br></span></p><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 5:02 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><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">HI Mary, Kevin:<div><br></div><div>Thank you for your help. </div><div><br></div><div>I am sorry about the file, but the original one was 380 GB. When I ran the program with just the file I uploaded, I just changed the file name, and outputted a single panel. This was enough to see the problem, and I should have made this more clear in the <i>last </i>e-mail in the chain. </div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, more important is that when I run your program on my computer with WPS 6.3, I get a different color bar.</div><div><br></div><div>I get the same color bar as before: wrong.</div><div><br></div><div>The strange thing is that if I <div class="gmail_chip gmail_drive_chip" style="width:396px;height:18px;max-height:18px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245);padding:5px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;font-size:13px;border:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);line-height:1"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3E3GjUeKpBdYVEzN3ZxU0V2VHc/view?usp=drive_web" style="display:inline-block;max-width:366px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap;text-decoration:none;padding:1px 0px;border:none" target="_blank"><img style="vertical-align:bottom;border:none" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_10_generic_list.png"> <span dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:bottom">KOKX_V06_20130209_000138.nc</span></a><img style="opacity:0.55;float:right;display:none"></div>use the same color bar label in the program that plots radar obs (I uploaded this in the first e-mail I sent), I get the correct color bar.</div><div><br></div><div>I have uploaded one file with observed radar and modified the loop to plot a single panel (the others will be missing) -- if you want to compare programs.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope this isn't too much of a conundrum! </div><div><br></div><div>(P.S: I suppose I could try to modify the program that works to plot WRF data, instead.)</div><div><br></div><div>
<p class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837gmail-p1"><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837gmail-s1">[wrf@mn03 NAM_02_08_2013]$ which wps</span></p>
<p class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837gmail-p1"><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837gmail-s1">/usr/bin/which: no wps in (/usr/local/ncl/6.3.0/bin:/usr<wbr>/local/ncl/6.2.1/bin:/usr/loca<wbr>l/ncarg-4.4.2/bin:/opt/mvapich<wbr>2-x/intel/bin:/usr/local/bin:/<wbr>usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/opt/<wbr>intel/composer_xe_2013_sp1.2.<wbr>144/bin/intel64:/bin:/usr/bin:<wbr>/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/<wbr>sbin:/home/haim/bin)</span></p></div></div><div class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-HOEnZb"><div class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 2:01 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;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small">Barry,</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Thanks for providing the extra files. What version of NCL are you using?</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Kevin and I looked at this, but there are a number of problems that makes this hard to debug.</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">- When running the script on the data you provided, the field was constant. I tried also tried to use QCLOUD, but it was also all 0.0</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">- You appear to be using your own modified version of WRFUserARW.ncl, so we commented this out and used the one that comes with NCL</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">- As you pointed out, there's only one time step, so we had to modify the script so itime = 0. This causes a problem because now there are not 6 plots to panel. We had to modify the code to copy the one plot to an array of 6 plots.</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small"> - We removed a lot of the commented code just to make it easier to see what was going on. There was also some code in there that should be there, like:</div><div style="font-size:small">
<p class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-p1"><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-s1"><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>grid@lat2d = xlat2d_m <span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-s2">; this is for plotting <span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-Apple-converted-space"> <br></span></span><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-s1"> grid@lon2d = xlon2d_m <span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-s2">; using gsn_csm routines<span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-p1"><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-s2"><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-Apple-converted-space">but this didn't hurt anything since you are not using gsn_csm routines. Still, it's very important to keep an eye on code like this because it could potentially affect your results.</span></span></p></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Even with these problems, we were able to get six plots, and you can see the first color in the labelbar is white and the last color is the dark red you expected.</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Are you sure that the image you included was generated from the script that you attached in your email? The reason I ask this is because this line alone:</div><div style="font-size:small"><span>
<p class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-m_499819629565161206gmail-p1"><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-m_499819629565161206gmail-s1"><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-m_499819629565161206gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>cmap(0,:) = 1. <span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-m_499819629565161206gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-m_499819629565161206gmail-s2">; Make first color white <span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-m_499819629565161206gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p></span><p class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-m_499819629565161206gmail-p1"><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-m_499819629565161206gmail-s2"><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-m_499819629565161206gmail-Apple-converted-space">should have forced the first color in your labelbar to be white no matter what else happened. Also, the fact that you are using NCV_jet, which has dark red as the last color, but you are seeing orange instead, leads me to believe that perhaps a different color map is being used, and/or the NCV_jet color table was modified, and/or the same script was not used.</span></span></p><p class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-m_499819629565161206gmail-p1"><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-m_499819629565161206gmail-s2"><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-m_499819629565161206gmail-Apple-converted-space">Please run the attached modified script on the same data set that you provided us, and let me know if you get the attached image.</span></span></p><p class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-m_499819629565161206gmail-p1"><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-m_499819629565161206gmail-s2"><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-m_499819629565161206gmail-Apple-converted-space">In the future, please try to provide a script that works with the data that you provide. We had to do a number of modifications to get this code to work. </span></span></p><p class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-m_499819629565161206gmail-p1"><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-m_499819629565161206gmail-s2"><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-m_499819629565161206gmail-Apple-converted-space">Thanks for your consideration.</span></span></p><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-m_499819629565161206gmail-p1">--Mary<br></p><p class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-m_499819629565161206gmail-p1"><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-m_499819629565161206gmail-s2"><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-m_499819629565161206gmail-Apple-converted-space"><br></span></span></p><p class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-m_499819629565161206gmail-p1"><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-m_499819629565161206gmail-s2"><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-m_499819629565161206gmail-Apple-converted-space"><br></span></span></p><p class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-m_499819629565161206gmail-p1"><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-m_499819629565161206gmail-s2"><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559gmail-m_499819629565161206gmail-Apple-converted-space"><br></span></span></p></font></span></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837HOEnZb"><div class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 12:32 PM, Barry Lynn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:barry.h.lynn@gmail.com" target="_blank">barry.h.lynn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi:<div><br></div><div>I downloaded the wrf output file to my computer and just uploaded it to your site. The program data, which uses wrf variables to set the map, was not easy to create a smaller version of. </div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your patience while I sorted this out.</div><div><br></div><div>
<p class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559m_5558724884555997599gmail-p1"><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559m_5558724884555997599gmail-s1">wrfout_d01_2013-02-08_00:00:00<wbr>.gz</span></p><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 8:30 PM, Barry Lynn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:barry.h.lynn@gmail.com" target="_blank">barry.h.lynn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi:<div><br></div><div>I can excerpt the required variables from the file, and upload them from my computer (where ftp is working).</div><div><br></div><div>However, I may wait until tomorrow (my time) to do it.</div><div><br></div><div>So, if you don't have a wrf output handy, I will do this.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for the help!</div><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559m_5558724884555997599gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Barry</div></font></span></div><div class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559m_5558724884555997599gmail-HOEnZb"><div class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559m_5558724884555997599gmail-h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 8:16 PM, Barry Lynn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:barry.h.lynn@gmail.com" target="_blank">barry.h.lynn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Just in case, you need this program as well (WRAPIT...)</div><div class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559m_5558724884555997599gmail-m_907398275241066650HOEnZb"><div class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559m_5558724884555997599gmail-m_907398275241066650h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 8:15 PM, Barry Lynn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:barry.h.lynn@gmail.com" target="_blank">barry.h.lynn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Adam:<div><br></div><div>Thank you for mentioning this.</div><div><br></div><div>I will need to ask my system administrator to add this as an option; right now I can't use this command.</div><div><br></div><div>However, this won't be until Monday, at the earliest.</div><div><br></div><div>If there is a way to sftp that would be possible.</div><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559m_5558724884555997599gmail-m_907398275241066650m_-4022572561342007417HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Barry</div></font></span></div><div class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559m_5558724884555997599gmail-m_907398275241066650m_-4022572561342007417HOEnZb"><div class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559m_5558724884555997599gmail-m_907398275241066650m_-4022572561342007417h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 7:46 PM, 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;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Barry,<div>(offline from ncl-talk)<br><div>I was just able to logon to the ftp site by using ncftp (which automatically logs you on anonymously). I can't try with ftp as my servers (strangely) no longer seem to have ftp. So give ncftp a shot if you can. If you continue to have trouble I can speak with our systems folks. I know they've clamped down protocols a bit as some folks were abusing our ftp server. </div></div><div>Adam</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559m_5558724884555997599gmail-m_907398275241066650m_-4022572561342007417m_-8894808255712326131h5">On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:31 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:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559m_5558724884555997599gmail-m_907398275241066650m_-4022572561342007417m_-8894808255712326131h5"><div dir="ltr">Hi:<div><br></div><div>Thank you for taking a look. </div><div><br></div><div>It is WPS 6.3.</div><div><br></div><div>I am trying to ftp to the ftp site, but after opening once, it won't open again (and it didn't accept my password).</div><div><br></div><div>
<p class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559m_5558724884555997599gmail-m_907398275241066650m_-4022572561342007417m_-8894808255712326131m_-6527453469711249626m_97819059512506442gmail-p1"><span class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559m_5558724884555997599gmail-m_907398275241066650m_-4022572561342007417m_-8894808255712326131m_-6527453469711249626m_97819059512506442gmail-s1">ftp <a href="http://ftp.cgd.ucar.edu" target="_blank">ftp.cgd.ucar.edu</a> (can't enter).</span></p></div><div><br></div><div>You can take any wrf output file (the only thing is that you need to make sure that lats/lons settings are within the domain. The other thing is to set fft_zh to QCLOUD, for example.</div><div><br></div><div>The plot doesn't matter, just that it should read one time step and make the color bar incorrectly. </div><div><br></div><div>Barry<br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 6:13 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:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small">Hi Barry,</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">I couldn't reproduce your problem using a toy script. What version of NCL are you using?</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Can you upload the wrf output file so I can try running your script?</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ftp_files.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ftp_fi<wbr>les.shtml</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>--Mary</div><div><br></div></div><div class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559m_5558724884555997599gmail-m_907398275241066650m_-4022572561342007417m_-8894808255712326131m_-6527453469711249626m_97819059512506442HOEnZb"><div class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837m_-4962893571987869559m_5558724884555997599gmail-m_907398275241066650m_-4022572561342007417m_-8894808255712326131m_-6527453469711249626m_97819059512506442h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 8:21 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><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi:<div><br></div><div>I need to follow up.</div><div><br></div><div>radar_panel.. plots nc data from the Weather Climate and Tool Kit (anyone is welcome to use -- but I am not finished with that part of the program to remove attenuation).</div><div><br></div><div>The other program plots WRF radar data.</div><div><br></div><div>I have attached data from the mapping of radar observations (KOKX) and the WRF output.</div><div><br></div><div>The radar observations have white space around a 150 km radius because the data is undefined.</div><div><br></div><div>I tried to do the same for the WRF output following Mary's suggestion. However, there are two problems: i) even though I use the same "NCV_jet" and ispan values in each, the color bar in the WRF mapping is not the same (it needs to be redder on the right hand side). ii) I would expect white coloring in the first (leftmost) part of the colorbar, but this doesn't seem to work correctly either. Both problems are probably related.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div><br></div><div>Barry<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Michael Weston <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mjweston@masdar.ac.ae" target="_blank">mjweston@masdar.ac.ae</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Thank you Mary!</p>
<p>That is a much better approach :)<br>
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<div style="font-size:small">Hi Mike (and
Barry),</div>
<div style="font-size:small"><br>
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<div style="font-size:small">Just an FYI: I
don't think you need to use cnFillColors. You can simply read
the colormap you want, set the first color to white, and then
load this new colormap using cnFillPalette:</div>
<div style="font-size:small"><br>
</div>
<div> cmap =
read_colormap_file("BlueYellow<wbr>Red")</div>
<div style="font-size:small"> cmap(0,:) =
1. ; Make first color white<br>
</div>
<div style="font-size:small"><br>
</div>
<div style="font-size:small">
<div> res@cnLevelSelectionMode =
"ExplicitLevels" ; set explicit contour levels</div>
<div> res@cnLevels =
(/0.1,0.2,0.3,0.4,0.5,0.6,0.7,<wbr>0.8,0.9,1/) ; 10 levels<br>
res@cnFillPalette = cmap</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>If you want the first color to be
transparent rather than white, then use:</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>
<div> cmap(0,3) = 0,0 ; Make first
color transparent<br>
</div>
<div><br>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_7098828313415902842gmail-m_-145617348618279837gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Barry H. Lynn, Ph.D<div><div>Senior Lecturer,</div><div><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">The Institute of the Earth Science, </span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, </span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel </span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"></div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Tel: 972 547 231 170</span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Fax: (972)-25662581</span></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><br></span></div><div>C.E.O, Weather It Is, LTD<br>Weather and Climate Focus<br><a href="http://weather-it-is.com" target="_blank">http://weather-it-is.com</a><br>Jerusalem, Israel<br>Local: 02 930 9525<br>Cell: 054 7 231 170<br>Int-IS: x972 2 930 9525<br>US <a href="tel:(914)%20432-3108" value="+19144323108" target="_blank">914 432 3108</a><br></div></div></div>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_7098828313415902842gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Barry H. Lynn, Ph.D<div><div>Senior Lecturer,</div><div><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">The Institute of the Earth Science, </span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, </span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel </span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"></div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Tel: 972 547 231 170</span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Fax: (972)-25662581</span></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><br></span></div><div>C.E.O, Weather It Is, LTD<br>Weather and Climate Focus<br><a href="http://weather-it-is.com" target="_blank">http://weather-it-is.com</a><br>Jerusalem, Israel<br>Local: 02 930 9525<br>Cell: 054 7 231 170<br>Int-IS: x972 2 930 9525<br>US <a href="tel:(914)%20432-3108" value="+19144323108" target="_blank">914 432 3108</a><br></div></div></div>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Barry H. Lynn, Ph.D<div><div>Senior Lecturer,</div><div><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">The Institute of the Earth Science, </span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, </span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel </span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"></div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Tel: 972 547 231 170</span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Fax: (972)-25662581</span></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><br></span></div><div>C.E.O, Weather It Is, LTD<br>Weather and Climate Focus<br><a href="http://weather-it-is.com" target="_blank">http://weather-it-is.com</a><br>Jerusalem, Israel<br>Local: 02 930 9525<br>Cell: 054 7 231 170<br>Int-IS: x972 2 930 9525<br>US 914 432 3108<br></div></div></div>
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