[ncl-talk] two color bars, different color tables

Matt Flournoy mflournoy37 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 20 12:05:44 MDT 2017


Hi Barry,

Yes, my original problem was that I couldn't see the color bar associated
with the trajectories. But... a coworker and I just figured it out! Thanks
for your quick response.

Best,
Matt

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Barry Lynn <barry.h.lynn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi:
>
> Do you mean that you can't see the second color bar?
>
> I ask because I can see the trajectories.
>
> Barry
>
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 8:34 PM, Matt Flournoy <mflournoy37 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to plot some WRF output with surface reflectivity shading
>> overlaid with parcel trajectories. I'd like the reflectivity to be shaded
>> in a grayscale, and the parcel trajectories to be colored according to
>> their height. I currently have a color bar for the shaded reflectivity, but
>> am having trouble getting a second color bar to show the parcel heights. I
>> think my issue might come from my use of a different color table for the
>> trajectories than for the reflectivity, which is what I defined my
>> workstation colormap with (MPL_Greys).
>>
>> I've attached the script I'm currently using and the resulting plot. I'm
>> trying to get the height color bar (using BlAqGrYeOrReVi200) on the right
>> side of the plot. When I run the script as is, I get this message in
>> between my "error1" and "error2" print lines:
>>
>> fatal:CvtStringGenArrayToColorIndexGenArray: Unable to convert string
>> "BlAqGrYeOrReVi200" to requested type
>>
>> warning:Error retrieving resource lbFillColors from args - Ignoring Arg
>> If you remove the semicolon before the "frame(xwks2)" line, the plot will
>> show the parcel height color bar (without the labels working...), but not
>> the rest of the plot.
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Matt
>>
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>> Matthew Flournoy
>> M.S. Meteorology Candidate, University of Oklahoma
>> B.S. Meteorology, Penn State University[image: Inline image 1]
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B.S. Meteorology, Penn State University
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