[ncl-talk] 2nd y-axis label plus...

Mary Haley haley at ucar.edu
Tue May 26 08:24:36 MDT 2015 

Hi Marston,

No need to send me the data, thanks!  Glad it's working.

--Mary


On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 7:15 AM, Marston Johnston <shejo284 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Mary,
>
> The example solution in #19 solved the problem.
> The plots needed to brought closer so that the right titles
> could be seen. The results look great now.
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Do you still need me to send you the data?
>
> /M
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Marston S. Johnston, PhD
> Department of Earth Sciences
> University of Gothenburg, Sweden
> Email: marston.johnston at gu.se
> Phone: +46-31-7862859
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Only the fruitful thing is true!
>
> On 26 May 2015, at 05:32, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Marston,
>
> There are a couple of things you can do to get the plots to be closer
> together.
>
> One thing is to try setting the panel resource "gsnPanelYWhiteSpacePercent
> <http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/Resources/gsn.shtml#gsnPanelYWhiteSpacePercent>"
> to something smaller than 1.0 and greater than 0.0.
>
> Another thing you can do is set the special gsnPanelXF resource, which
> allows you to set the x position of each plot in a panel, in order to
> override the default. Setting resP at gsnPanelDebug to True will print the
> default values being used for the x position, allowing you to adjust as
> necessary.
>
> See example panel_19.ncl for more information:
>
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/panel.shtml#ex19
>
>
> Setting res at tmYLLabelsOn to False *should* turn off the Y axis labels.  I
> do see that you are calling gsn_csm_xy2, so perhaps this is doing something
> unexpected. It would really help if you could provide us with the data so
> we can run your script, or else provide us with a small test case that
> illustrates the problem.
>
> To change the side of the Y axis title, try setting tiYAxisSide to
> "Right".  See example title_8.ncl:
>
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/title.shtml#ex8
>
> I should point out that the gsn_csm_xy2 routine may be trying to control
> some of these features in order to make sure all the labels and tickmarks
> are correct. If you continue to have problems with this routine, then let
> me know.
>
> --Mary
>
>
> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 12:15 AM, Marston Johnston <shejo284 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I’m trying to complete this figure by making some cosmetic changes.
>> I thought these would be rather easy but I’m missing something. What I
>> would like to do are:
>>
>> 1.) Move the plots closer vertically and remove the y-axis labels.
>> 2.) I added a y2-axis title on the right side of the right column plots.
>> How do I get these to show up?
>> I’ve tried using the tmYLLabelsOn but this doesn’t give me the changes I
>> need. I suspect something is interfering.
>>
>> Would appreciate some advice on this.
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>> /M
>>
>>
>> plot snip…..
>>
>> wks = gsn_open_wks("pdf","zmean_xy")
>>   plot = new(4,graphic)
>>   data = new((/3,dimsizes(djfzm&lat)/),double)
>>
>>   res = True
>>   resR                = True
>>
>>   res at gsnFrame        = False
>>   res at gsnDraw         = False
>>   res at xyLineThicknesses = (/2.0,2.0,2.0/)
>>   res at xyLineColors      = (/"blue","red","black"/)
>>
>>   resR at trYMinF = -4
>>   resR at trYMaxF = 30
>>   res at trYMinF = 180
>>   res at trYMaxF = 300
>>
>>   ; add a legend
>>   res at pmLegendDisplayMode    = "Always"              ; turn on legend
>>   res at pmLegendSide           = "Top"                 ; Change location of
>>   res at pmLegendOrthogonalPosF = -0.65     ; Move into plot
>>   res at pmLegendParallelPosF   = 0.35       ; Move to right
>>   res at pmLegendWidthF         = 0.2       ; Decrease width
>>   ;res at pmLegendHeightF        = 0.1       ; Decrease height
>>   res at lgBoxMinorExtentF      = 0.2       ; Shorten the legend lines
>>   res at lgLabelFontHeightF     = 0.02     ; Change the font size
>>   res at lgPerimOn              = False                 ; no box around
>>   res at xyExplicitLegendLabels = (/"EC-Earth","NOAA18"/)
>>
>>   resR at xyLineThicknesses          = 2.                  ; thicker line
>>
>>   ; GRID lines
>>   res at tmXMajorGrid                = True          ; implement x grid
>>   res at tmXMajorGridThicknessF      = 1.0           ; 2.0 is default
>>   res at tmXMajorGridLineDashPattern = 2             ; select short dash
>> lines
>>   resR at tmYMajorGrid                = True          ; implement y grid
>>   resR at tmYMajorGridThicknessF      = 1.0           ; 2.0 is default
>>   resR at tmYMajorGridLineDashPattern = 2             ; select short dash
>> lines
>>
>>   res at tiYAxisString  = "Brightness Temperature [K]" ; y-axis title
>>   ;res at tmXBLabelsOn         = False              ; do not draw bottom
>> labels
>>   ;resR at tmYRLabelsOn        = False              ; no right labels
>>   ;res at tmYLLabelsOn         = True
>>   data(0,:) = djfzm
>>   data(1,:) = djfozm
>>   data(2,:) = djfzm - djfozm
>>   plot(0) = gsn_csm_xy2 (wks,djfzm&lat,data(0:1,:),data(2,:),res,resR)
>>
>>   ;**************************
>>   res at pmLegendDisplayMode = "Never"
>>   res at tiYAxisString = "" ; y-axis title
>>   ;res at tmYLLabelsOn  = False             ; left labels
>>
>>   resR at tiYAxisString = "EC-Earth - NOAA18 [~F33~D K]" ; y2-axis title
>>   ;resR at tmYRLabelsOn  = True              ; right labels
>>
>>   data(0,:) = mamzm
>>   data(1,:) = mamozm
>>   data(2,:) = mamzm - mamozm
>>   plot(1) = gsn_csm_xy2 (wks,mamzm&lat,data(0:1,:),data(2,:),res,resR)
>>
>>   res at tiYAxisString  = "Brightness Temperature [K]" ; y-axis title
>>   resR at tiYAxisString  = "" ; y-axis title
>>   res at tiXAxisString  = "Latitude" ; x-axis title
>>   ;res at tmXBLabelsOn         = True              ; draw bottom labels
>>   ;resR at tmYRLabelsOn        = False           ; right labels
>>   ;res at tmYLLabelsOn         = True              ; left labels
>>   data(0,:) = jjazm
>>   data(1,:) = jjaozm
>>   data(2,:) = jjazm - jjaozm
>>   plot(2) = gsn_csm_xy2 (wks,jjazm&lat,data(0:1,:),data(2,:),res,resR)
>>
>>   res at tiYAxisString  = "" ; y-axis title
>>   resR at tiYAxisString  = "EC-Earth - NOAA18 [~F33~D K]" ; y2-axis title
>>   res at tiXAxisString  = "Latitude" ; x-axis title
>>   ;res at tmYRLabelsOn         = True              ; right labels
>>   ;res at tmYLLabelsOn         = False              ;left labels
>>   ;resR at tmYRLabelsOn        = True
>>   data(0,:) = sonzm
>>   data(1,:) = sonozm
>>   data(2,:) = sonzm - sonozm
>>   plot(3) = gsn_csm_xy2 (wks,sonzm&lat,data(0:1,:),data(2,:),res,resR)
>>
>>   resP                           = True
>>   resP at gsnMaximize  = True
>>   gsn_panel(wks,plot,(/2,2/),resP)
>>
>> ***************
>>
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Marston S. Johnston, PhD
>> Department of Earth Sciences
>> University of Gothenburg, Sweden
>> Email: marston.johnston at gu.se
>> Phone: +46-31-7862859
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Only the fruitful thing is true!
>>
>>
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