[ncl-talk] ZOOMING INTO REGION OF INTEREST USING WRFUserARW.ncl

[Mary Haley]

[Adam, good catch on the resource errors.]

Afwande,

It looks like some of your map outlines are still being drawn in gray,
which is the default used by the wrf_xxxx plotting functions.  If you want
them to be something other than gray, you need to set the three "LineColor"
resources I mentioned previously:

  mpres at mpGeophysicalColor          = "black"
  mpres at mpNationalLineColor         = "black"
  mpres at mpUSStateLineColor          = "black"

If you want them all gray, then don't set these resources at all.

If you continue to have problems, then email ncl-talk and include the new
version of your script.

--Mary


On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 3:22 AM, afwande juliet <afwandej965 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> the uniformity; some are black some are brown; I don't know where the
> problem is coming from
>
> thanks
>
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 2:20 AM, afwande juliet <afwandej965 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Adams;
>> it worked but some boundaries are funny
>>
>> Afwande
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Adam Phillips <asphilli at ucar.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Afwande,
>>> Looking at your script, you have this:
>>>   mpOutlineBoundarySets             = "National"
>>>   mpDataBaseVersion                 = "MediumRes"
>>>   mpFillOn                          = True
>>>   mpProjection                      = "Mercator"
>>>
>>> I think you want those lines to look like this:
>>>   mpres at mpOutlineBoundarySets             = "National"
>>>   mpres at mpDataBaseVersion                 = "MediumRes"
>>>   mpres at mpFillOn                          = False
>>>   mpres at mpProjection                      = "Mercator"
>>>
>>> If that does not fix the problem please let ncl-talk know.
>>> Adam
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 10:00 PM, afwande juliet <afwandej965 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Mary, I have tried increasing the line thickness but still not
>>>> showing the country outline and national borders.
>>>> I have tried to set National boundaries but still I cant get the
>>>> national countries borders and entire domain clearly for East Africa. Could
>>>> the issue be WRF or NCL?.
>>>> Some one to help. The figure I get is attached and the script.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Afwande,
>>>>>
>>>>> My apologies if this has already been answered.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think the issue is simply that the WRF plotting routines make the
>>>>> outlines pretty faint and hard to see.  They use a color of "gray", and a
>>>>> thickness of 0.5, which is half the normal line thickness for map outlines.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you want to see the outlines better, you can set the map outline
>>>>> colors to black, and/or increase the line thickness to something higher
>>>>> than 0.5, like 1.0 or even 2.0.
>>>>>
>>>>> To make sure I get all of them, I usually set:
>>>>>
>>>>>   mpres at mpGeophysicalColor          = "black"
>>>>>   mpres at mpNationalLineColor         = "black"
>>>>>   mpres at mpUSStateLineColor          = "black"
>>>>>   mpres at mpGeophysicalLineThicknessF = 1.5
>>>>>   mpres at mpNationalLineThicknessF    = 1.5
>>>>>   mpres at mpUSStateLineThicknessF     = 1.5
>>>>>
>>>>> --Mary
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 11:18 AM, afwande juliet <afwandej965 at gmail.com
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear Ncl users. I run WRF for 9hrs and when plotting over my area of
>>>>>> interestest(domain), I don't see the political boundaries and geographical
>>>>>> features like lakes are not displayed. I checked from WRF
>>>>>> WRFUserARW.ncl
>>>>>> <http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/WRF_arw/WRFUserARW.shtml>
>>>>>> functions sites specifically  wrf_map_zoom and wrf_map_Resources but still
>>>>>> i don't see what I want getting plotted .
>>>>>> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/WRF_arw/index.shtml
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there anyone with Idea. Thanks
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have attached my modified script and sample plots
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Afwande
>>>>>>
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>>>
>>> --
>>> Adam Phillips
>>> Associate Scientist,  Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, NCAR
>>> www.cgd.ucar.edu/staff/asphilli/   303-497-1726
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
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