[ncl-talk] gsn_contour_shade

[Adam Phillips]

Hi Laura,
Try adding:
ores at cnLineLabelsOn = False
Adam

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 12:09 PM Laura Fowler <laura at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Hi Adam:
>
> Thanks for your help. It did work after switching to gsn_csm_contour. I
> followed your suggestion and added separate resources for plot2 to remove
> the "mp" warning messages.
>
> Despite adding the following lines:
>
> ores at cnFillOn      = False
>
> ores at cnLinesOn     = False
>
> ores at cnLevelFlags  = "NoLine"
>
> ores at cnInfoLabelOn = False
>
> to my second (ores) set of ressources, I still get labels attached to the
> shading. Which additional option do I need to add to remove those extra
> labels so that the output looks like the one in overlay.ncl?
>
> Many thanks,
> Laura
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 11:39 AM, Adam Phillips <asphilli at ucar.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Laura,
>> One can't overlay a plotting type with a map over another plotting class
>> with a map. This should work:
>> plot  = gsn_csm_contour_map(wks,lwpath_a(:,:,n),res)
>> plot2 = gsn_csm_contour(wks,cldtopt_a(:,:,n),res)
>> overlay(plot,plot2)
>>
>> You are getting the various mp* errors as you can't pass mp resources to
>> a non-map plotting function, in this case gsn_csm_contour. You should be
>> able to safely ignore those messages as everything will still work; NCL is
>> just telling you it is ignoring some of your resources. If you would like
>> to get rid of the messages though, I would recommend you create a new
>> resource list, res2, for your cldtopt_a array that excludes mp resources.
>> Hope that helps!
>> Adam
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 11:33 AM Laura Fowler <laura at ucar.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello:
>>>
>>> I am following the ncl script overlay_5.ncl to overlay shading over a
>>> contour plot. see the script test3.ncl in
>>>
>>> /glade2/scratch2/laura/forNCL
>>>
>>> first, I plot the cloud liquid water path:
>>>
>>> plot  = gsn_csm_contour_map(wks,lwpath_a(:,:,n),res)
>>>
>>> then I would like to overlay shading of the cloud-top temperature with
>>> shading for cloud-top temperatures less than 248 or greater than 268.
>>>
>>> When I use:
>>>
>>> plot2 = gsn_csm_contour_map(wks,cldtopt_a(:,:,n),res)
>>>
>>> I get the error message:
>>>
>>> fatal:NhlAddOverlay: plot class mapPlotClass cannot be overlay plot
>>> member
>>>
>>> When I use gsn_csm_contour(wks,cldtopt_a(:,:,n),res)
>>> then I get the messages:
>>>
>>> warning:mpProjection is not a valid resource in
>>> test3.ceres_aqua.PO.dec2015_contour at this time
>>>
>>> warning:mpMinLonF is not a valid resource in
>>> test3.ceres_aqua.PO.dec2015_contour at this time
>>>
>>> warning:mpMaxLonF is not a valid resource in
>>> test3.ceres_aqua.PO.dec2015_contour at this time
>>>
>>> warning:mpMinLatF is not a valid resource in
>>> test3.ceres_aqua.PO.dec2015_contour at this time
>>>
>>> warning:mpMaxLatF is not a valid resource in
>>> test3.ceres_aqua.PO.dec2015_contour at this time
>>>
>>> warning:mpCenterLonF is not a valid resource in
>>> test3.ceres_aqua.PO.dec2015_contour at this time
>>>
>>> warning:mpShapeMode is not a valid resource in
>>> test3.ceres_aqua.PO.dec2015_contour at this time
>>>
>>> warning:mpDataBaseVersion is not a valid resource in
>>> test3.ceres_aqua.PO.dec2015_contour at this time
>>>
>>> I am not sure what is going wrong, and would really like a suggestion on
>>> how to fix this.
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>> Laura
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Adam Phillips
>> Associate Scientist,  Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, NCAR
>> www.cgd.ucar.edu/staff/asphilli/   303-497-1726
>>
>> <http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/staff/asphilli>
>>
>
>
>
> --
>
> !-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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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>


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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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