<div dir="ltr">Hi Laura,<div>One can't overlay a plotting type with a map over another plotting class with a map. This should work:</div><div>plot = gsn_csm_contour_map(wks,lwpath_a(:,:,n),res)<br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Courier;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">plot2 =<span> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Courier;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);float:none;display:inline">gsn_csm_contour(wks,cldtopt_a(:,:,n),res)</span><br></div><div><span style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);float:none;display:inline"><font color="#000000" face="Courier"><span style="font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">overlay(plot,plot2)</span></font><br></span></div><div><span style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);float:none;display:inline"><font color="#000000" face="Courier"><span style="font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></font></span></div><div><span style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);float:none;display:inline"><font color="#000000" face="Courier"><span style="font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">You are getting the various mp* errors as you can't pass mp resources to a non-map plotting function, in this case gsn_csm_contour. You should be able to safely ignore those messages as everything will still work; NCL is just telling you it is ignoring some of your resources. If you would like to get rid of the messages though, I would recommend you create a new resource list, res2, for your cldtopt_a array that excludes mp resources.</span></font></span></div><div><span style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);float:none;display:inline"><font color="#000000" face="Courier"><span style="font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Hope that helps!</span></font></span></div><div><span style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);float:none;display:inline"><font color="#000000" face="Courier"><span style="font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Adam</span></font></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 11:33 AM Laura Fowler <<a href="mailto:laura@ucar.edu">laura@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello:<div><br></div><div>I am following the ncl script overlay_5.ncl to overlay shading over a contour plot. see the script test3.ncl in
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<p class="m_7400435501164079188gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="m_7400435501164079188gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">/glade2/scratch2/laura/forNCL</span></p>
<div><br></div><div>first, I plot the cloud liquid water path:</div><div>
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<p class="m_7400435501164079188gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="m_7400435501164079188gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">plot<span class="m_7400435501164079188gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>= gsn_csm_contour_map(wks,lwpath_a(:,:,n),res)</span></p>
<br></div><div>then I would like to overlay shading of the cloud-top temperature with shading for cloud-top temperatures less than 248 or greater than 268.</div><div><br></div><div>When I use:</div><div>
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<p class="m_7400435501164079188gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="m_7400435501164079188gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">plot2 = <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">gsn_csm_contour_map(wks,cldtopt_a(:,:,n),res)</span></span></p><p class="m_7400435501164079188gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">I get the error message:</span><br></p><p class="m_7400435501164079188gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="m_7400435501164079188gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">
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</span></p><p class="m_7400435501164079188gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="m_7400435501164079188gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">fatal:NhlAddOverlay: plot class mapPlotClass cannot be overlay plot member</span></p>
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When I use <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Courier;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">gsn_csm_contour(wks,cldtopt_a(:,:,n),res)</span></div><div>then I get the messages:</div><div>
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<p class="m_7400435501164079188gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="m_7400435501164079188gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">warning:mpProjection is not a valid resource in test3.ceres_aqua.PO.dec2015_contour at this time</span></p>
<p class="m_7400435501164079188gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="m_7400435501164079188gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">warning:mpMinLonF is not a valid resource in test3.ceres_aqua.PO.dec2015_contour at this time</span></p>
<p class="m_7400435501164079188gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="m_7400435501164079188gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">warning:mpMaxLonF is not a valid resource in test3.ceres_aqua.PO.dec2015_contour at this time</span></p>
<p class="m_7400435501164079188gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="m_7400435501164079188gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">warning:mpMinLatF is not a valid resource in test3.ceres_aqua.PO.dec2015_contour at this time</span></p>
<p class="m_7400435501164079188gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="m_7400435501164079188gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">warning:mpMaxLatF is not a valid resource in test3.ceres_aqua.PO.dec2015_contour at this time</span></p>
<p class="m_7400435501164079188gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="m_7400435501164079188gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">warning:mpCenterLonF is not a valid resource in test3.ceres_aqua.PO.dec2015_contour at this time</span></p>
<p class="m_7400435501164079188gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="m_7400435501164079188gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">warning:mpShapeMode is not a valid resource in test3.ceres_aqua.PO.dec2015_contour at this time</span></p>
<p class="m_7400435501164079188gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="m_7400435501164079188gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">warning:mpDataBaseVersion is not a valid resource in test3.ceres_aqua.PO.dec2015_contour at this time</span></p>
<br></div><div>I am not sure what is going wrong, and would really like a suggestion on how to fix this.</div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks,</div><div>Laura</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_7400435501164079188gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">!-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Laura D. Fowler </font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division (MMM) </font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">National Center for Atmospheric Research<br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">P.O. Box 3000, Boulder CO 80307-3000</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">e-mail: <a href="mailto:laura@ucar.edu" target="_blank">laura@ucar.edu</a></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">phone: 303-497-1628</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">!-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</font><br></div></div></div>
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