<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello:</div><div><br></div><div>I followed panel_26.ncl to create 3 panels plots below each other, each set with their own colormap (see attached file totPREC.dec2015.png). Now, I would like to do the same thing, but with only one TMPA map centered at the top of the figure (see tentative figure test.png).</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>For both the 6 and 5 panel plots, I used:</div><div><br></div><div>




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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">resP<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">                  </span>= True</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">resP@gsnMaximize<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">      </span>= True</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">resP@gsnDraw<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">          </span>= False</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">resP@gsnFrame <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">        </span>= False</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">resP@gsnPanelLabelBar = True</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:17px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">pplots = gsn_panel_return(wks,plots(0:1),(/1,2/),resP)</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">bb <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">    </span>= NhlGetBB(pplots)</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">height = max(bb(0:1,0)) - min(bb(0:1,1))</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">print("--- bb(0)<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>= "+bb(0:1,0))</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">print("--- bb(1)<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>= "+bb(0:1,1))</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">print("--- height = "+height)</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:17px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:17px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">;--- using height value, now we can panel all sets of plots:</span><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">resP@gsnDraw<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">        </span>= True</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">resP@gsnMaximize<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">    </span>= True</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">resP@gsnPanelTop<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">    </span>= 1.0</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">resP@gsnPanelBottom = resP@gsnPanelTop - height</span></p>


<br></div><div><br></div><div>For the 6 panel plot, I used the loop:</div><div>




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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">do n = 0,nplots-1,2</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>gsn_panel(wks,plots(n:n+1),(/1,2/),resP)</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:17px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">;---Set for the next panel call.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>resP@gsnPanelMainString = ""</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>resP@gsnPanelTop<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">        </span>= resP@gsnPanelBottom - 0.02</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>resP@gsnPanelBottom <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">    </span>= resP@gsnPanelTop-height</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">end do</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">frame(wks)</span></p>


<br></div><div><br></div><div>wheres for the 5 panel plot, I used the loop:</div><div>




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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">do n = 0,nplots-1,2</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">   </span>print("--- n = "+n)</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">   </span>if(n .eq. 0) then</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">      </span>gsn_panel(wks,plots(0:0),(/1,1/),resP)</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">   </span>else</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">      </span>gsn_panel(wks,plots(n-1:n),(/1,2/),resP)</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">   </span>end if</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">   </span>resP@gsnPanelMainString = ""</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">   </span>resP@gsnPanelTop<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">        </span>= resP@gsnPanelBottom - 0.02</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">   </span>resP@gsnPanelBottom <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">    </span>= resP@gsnPanelTop-height</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">end do</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">frame(wks)</span></p>


<br></div><div><br></div><div>I do not understand why the second plot of the second column is so much bigger than the one on the left side and the two plots for the third row? Can somebody help me figure this out?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks,</div><div>Laura</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_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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