[ncl-talk] help using res and res2

[Dennis Shea]

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http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/wrf.shtml

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http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/WRF_contributed/wrf_times_c.shtml



On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Rick Brownrigg <brownrig at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Hi Laura,
>
> I took a peek at those files, and it appears that xtime is a character
> array, such that if you print it, you get:
>
> Variable: xtime (file variable)
> Type: character
> Total Size: 64 bytes
>             64 values
> Number of Dimensions: 2
> Dimensions and sizes:    [Time | 1] x [StrLen | 64]
> Coordinates:
> Number Of Attributes: 0
> (0,0)    2
> (0,1)    0
> (0,2)    1
> (0,3)    5
> (0,4)    -
> (0,5)    0
> (0,6)    5
> (0,7)    -
> (0,8)    0
> (0,9)    6
> (0,10)    _
> (0,11)    0
> (0,12)    0
> (0,13)    :
> (0,14)    1
> (0,15)    5
> (0,16)    :
> (0,17)    0
> (0,18)    0
> (0,19)
> (0,20)
> (0,21)
> (0,22)
> ...
>
>
> You might try setting res2 at tiMainString = tostring(xtime)
>
> HTH...
> Rick
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 9:08 AM, Laura Fowler <laura at ucar.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hello:
>>
>> I am trying to plot the same string "tiMainString", one using
>> "res at tiMainString =" for the title of a global plot and one using
>> "res2 at tiMainString =" for the title of a regional plot centered over
>> CONUS. At the top of my ncl script, I set res2 = res. I do not have
>> any issue plotting the global and regional fields using
>> res at gsnLeftString and res2 at gsnLeftString, but:
>>
>> I am able to plot the correct main title for the global map using
>> res at tiMainString but for the regional map using res2 at tiMainString, I
>> get a "2" for the main tile instead of the actual title. Printing
>> res at tiMainString before calling gsn_csm_contour_map is correct, and
>> the regional pdf file is correct as well, besides the main title? I am
>> not sure what is going on, and why the correct "res2" title is not
>> plotted correctly.
>>
>> My script is in
>>
>> /glade/scratch/laura/MPASprojects.2016/2016-04-26_00/plots/plots_mpas.t2m.mynn38.ncl
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Laura
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> !-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Laura D. Fowler
>> Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division (MMM)
>> National Center for Atmospheric Research
>> P.O. Box 3000, Boulder CO 80307-3000
>>
>> e-mail: laura at ucar.edu
>> phone: 303-497-1628
>>
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