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

[afwande juliet]

Thanks  Mary,  my problem is solved. My simple error was that typing

  mpres at mpGeophysicalColor      = "Black" ........Syntax error

instead of

 mpres at mpGeophysicalLineColor      = "Black"........correct  syntax


On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu> wrote:

> [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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