[ncl-talk] curve on log-log plot goes off page

[David Brown]

Hi Gerard,
Sorry for the delay in answering this question. I think there is no
question that this behavior demonstrates a bug. I will file a ticket
for it and we will try to keep you informed of our progress in solving
the issue.
 -dave


On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Gerard Ketefian - NOAA Affiliate
<gerard.ketefian at noaa.gov> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Running NCL version 6.3.0 on:
>
>> uname -a
> Linux tfe06 2.6.32-431.29.2.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 27 15:55:46 EDT 2014
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> When I try make a log-log plot of a data set that has jumps in y-values that
> are greater than about seven orders of magnitude, the resulting plot goes
> outside the y-axis limits.
>
> The two attached png files demonstrate a case where things work
> (log_plot_ymin_1e-15.png) and a case where they don't
> (log_plot_ymin_1e-16.png).  These png files were generated using the
> attached script (test_log_plot.ncl).  The only difference between the two
> cases is that I changed ymin from 1e-15 to 1e-16.  The problem is that in
> the second case, the curve goes off the page, I guess because the difference
> between the min and max y values is too large.
>
> I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong or if this is a bug.
>
> Thanks.
> Gerard
>
>
>
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