<div dir="ltr">Hello:<div><br></div><div>I am really struggling trying to reduce the amount of white space between the two columns so that the individual plots are bigger. I followed panel_12.ncl since I would like to later add a label bar at the bottom of each column. To create the left and right columns, I used:</div><div><br></div><div>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">resL<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-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">resL@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-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">resL@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-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">resL@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-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">resL@gsnPanelRight<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>= 0.5</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">resL@gsnPanelLabelBar = False</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">resL@gsnPaperOrientation = "portrait"</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);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-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">resR<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-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">resR@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-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">resR@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-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">resR@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-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">resR@gsnPanelLeft <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>= 0.5</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">resR@gsnPanelLabelBar = False</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">resR@gsnPaperOrientation = "portrait"</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147);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-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">gsn_panel(wks,plot_A,(/4,1/),resL)</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">gsn_panel(wks,plot_B,(/4,1/),resR)</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(1,25,147)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">frame(wks)</span></p><div><br></div><div>Using gsnMaximize does not help. Varying resL@gsnPanelRight or resR@gsnPanelLeft to a greater number increases the size of one column at the expense of the other so it looks like we always have to use 0.5 then?</div><div><br></div><div>Can somebody give a hint?</div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Laura</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" 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></div></div>