[ncl-talk] Using vp resources for panelling different sized WRF contour plots

[Tabish Ansari]

Hi Mary,

Thank you very much for the help - using setvalues after the plot creation
finally worked!
However, there's a new, slightly annoying issue : the common labelbar for
the two plots within the panel isn't centered now.
Since the right plot was resized, i.e., shrunk to the same height as the
left plot, it seems that there quite a bit of white space
within the right plot which is considered part of the plot and NCL is
trying to center the common labelbar according to the
original viewport width (not plot width) of both plots.

I can get around this problem by slightly moving the vpXF position of the
right plot to further right but I don't want too much
gap between the plots just to center the labelbar.

Is there any way to manually align the common labelbar in the panelplot?
I just want to move it slightly towards the left.

Thanks

Tabish

Tabish U Ansari
PhD student, Lancaster Environment Center
Lancaster Univeristy
Bailrigg, Lancaster,
LA1 4YW, United Kingdom

On 24 August 2018 at 15:10, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Hi Tabish,
>
> I haven't tried this with wrf_map_overlays, but I think if you want to
> change the width and height, you need to do it using the second resource
> list associated with wrf_map_overlays:
>
> mpres = True
> mpres at vpHeightF = vph
> plot(1) = wrf_map_overlays(c,wks,(/contour_d04/),pltres,mpres)
>
> If that doesn't work, then you could try setting the height after the plot
> is created:
>
> plot(1) = wrf_map_overlays(c,wks,(/contour_d04/),pltres,False)
> setvalues plot(1)
>   "vpHeightF" : vph
> end setvalues
>
> If that still doesn't work, then it would help if you could provide your
> data file, which you can use our ftp for, if the file is not too large.
> You can email me this information offline if you don't want to email the
> whole group.
>
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ftp_files.shtml
>
>
> --Mary
>
>
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>
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> On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 10:07 AM, Tabish Ansari <
> tabishumaransari at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mary,
>>
>> Thanks for your response.
>> I tried to include the following lines in the panelplot script:
>>
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>> *plot = new(2,graphic)                          ; create a plot
>> arrayplot(0) = wrf_map_overlays(a,wks,(/contour_d01/),pltres,mpres)  ; Plot
>> the data over a map background;---Retrieve the height used for the first
>> plot and apply to second plot  getvalues plot(0)    "vpHeightF" : vph  end
>> getvalues  pltres at vpHeightF                   = vphplot(1) =
>> wrf_map_overlays(c,wks,(/contour_d04/),pltres,False)  *
>>
>> However, it still plots them with different height.
>>
>> Does the wrf_map_overlays() function does not accept these resources?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Tabish
>> Tabish U Ansari
>> PhD student, Lancaster Environment Center
>> Lancaster Univeristy
>> Bailrigg, Lancaster,
>> LA1 4YW, United Kingdom
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 at 21:59, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Tabish,
>>>
>>> You might be able to still use gsn_panel with the different-sized plots.
>>>
>>> The key is creating the first plot, and then retrieving the height of
>>> that plot and using it to set the height of the second plot. Then, when
>>> gsn_panel goes to panel both plots, it should retain the heights relative
>>> to each other.
>>>
>>> See the attached sample script, which only draws a map since I don't
>>> have your dataset.
>>>
>>> You can use gsnPanelXF to tweak the X positions of the paneled plots if
>>> you need to.
>>>
>>> --Mary
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 9:56 AM, Tabish Ansari <
>>> tabishumaransari at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I want to panel two plots side by side but they're of different sizes.
>>>> The panelplot routine in ncl does plot them but they remain of different
>>>> heights. I want to use the vp resources to manually shrink them so that
>>>> their height matches.
>>>>
>>>> I have attached 2 scripts: first one is working and uses the panelplot
>>>> resource and creates the figure that is attached, second one uses vp
>>>> resources but doesn't panel the two plots side by side.
>>>>
>>>> I'd really appreciate if you could point out what's wrong in the second
>>>> script.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Tabish
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Tabish U Ansari
>>>> PhD student, Lancaster Environment Center
>>>> Lancaster Univeristy
>>>> Bailrigg, Lancaster,
>>>> LA1 4YW, United Kingdom
>>>>
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