[ncl-talk] labelbar titles for vertical plots

[Cathy Smith - NOAA Affiliate]

Denis
That is what I want. Thanks!

Cathy


On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Dennis Shea <shea at ucar.edu> wrote:

> How about
>
> https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/unique.shtml
>
> Example 8 uses
>
>   res at lbOrientation        = "Vertical"
>   res at lbTitleString        = "Sea Surface Temperature (deg C)" ; bar title
>   res at lbTitlePosition      = "Right"                           ; title location
>   res at lbTitleDirection     = "Across"                          ; letter angle
>   res at lbTitleAngleF        = 90.                               ; title angle
>   res at lbTitleFontHeightF   = 0.02                              ; font height
>
> Does that do?
>
> D
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Cathy Smith (NOAA Affiliate) <
> cathy.smith at noaa.gov> wrote:
>
>> NCLers
>> I'm trying to have my title for a labelbar that is vertical plot
>> "sideways". Currently, the title plots in the right location but the
>> each letter is rotated 270 degrees. Can it be done using the default
>> labelbar routine? Someone showed me a NCL plot that did this but didn't
>> have the code.  I didn't see an example (so far) on the NCL example
>> page. I tried adding
>>
>>  res at lbTitleAngleF=90 and  res at lbTitleAngleF=270 but neither seemed to
>> rotate the letters.
>>
>> The code to display the issue below is slightly modified from
>>
>> lb_2.ncl
>>
>> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl"
>> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_csm.ncl"
>> ;************************************************
>> begin
>>
>>   in = addfile("/Datasets/ncep.reanalysis/pressure/vwnd.2014.nc","r")
>>   v  = in->vwnd(0,0,:,:)
>>
>>
>>   wks = gsn_open_wks("ps","lb")          ; open a ncgm file
>>   gsn_define_colormap(wks, "wgne15")
>>
>>   res               =   True
>>   res at cnFillOn      =   True                ; turn on color
>>   res at lbOrientation =   "vertical"          ; vertical label bar
>>   res at lbAutoManage= "True"
>>   res at lbLabelStrings =  (/"-70","-50","-30","-10","10","30","50","70",\
>>     "90","110","180","190","400","500","600","700"/)
>>   res at lbTitleString="Title of labelbar"
>>   res at lbTitleDirection="Down"
>>   res at lbTitlePosition = "Left"
>>   contour = gsn_csm_contour_map_ce(wks,v(:,:),res)  ; create the plot
>> end
>>
>> Thanks
>> Cathy
>>
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