[ncl-talk] a suggestion to expand the ocean color tables

[Mary Haley]

Glad to hear Sam. It's good to know these will get put to use.


On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 10:27 PM, Sam McClatchie <smcclatchie at fishocean.info
> wrote:

> Thanks Mary, that is terrific. I've said it before, but you guys rock!
> I'll start using the new tables immediately.
>
> Thanks!
> Sam
>
>
> On 05/23/2018 02:57 PM, Mary Haley wrote:
>
> Hi Sam,
>
> This is a heads up that we have added these color tables and are working
> on some NDVI / vegetation ones as well.
>
> You can see the current list of what we've added so far here:
>
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/future_release.shtml#NewColorTables6.5.0
>
> We are having an internal discussion about what to call the "nasa_ndvi"
> one because I haven't found an official name for it.  :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> --Mary
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 2:53 PM, Adam Phillips <asphilli at ucar.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Sam,
>> I agree, those colormaps would be a great addition. I have created a
>> JIRA-ticket for this: NCL-2747. To read these into NCL we need the RGB
>> values, and I didn't find them on the site you sent. (Perhaps one can get
>> them by sending the site's creator an email.)
>>
>> I did though find them on the Ocean Data Viewer github repository here:
>> https://github.com/kthyng/cmocean-odv/tree/master/pal
>>
>> Clicking on the ice.pal file for instance, gives you what I think the ice
>> colormap is, sandwiched between some standard colors at the beginning and
>> end of the colormap.
>>
>> I've attached a script, the rgb values and a figure providing an example
>> on how to use these values in NCL.
>> Hope that helps!
>> Adam
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 5:35 PM, Sam McClatchie <
>> smcclatchie at fishocean.info> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> I notice that NCL has two nice blue-tinted ocean color tables (GMT_ocean
>>> and MPL_ocean) as well as a rich diversity of other color tables. However,
>>> I'd like to suggest adding the family of cmocean color tables to expand the
>>> oceanographic palettes. I'm not sure if this link
>>> <https://matplotlib.org/cmocean/> <https://matplotlib.org/cmocean/>
>>> will get through to the list , but if not, a quick search for "cmocean
>>> colormaps" will find the page I am referring to.
>>>
>>> Best fishes
>>> Sam
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>>
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>> Adam Phillips
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>
>
> "The time has come", the tui said,
> "to talk of many things:
> Of songs - and ferns - and flowering flax,
> of Pukekos and dreams ..."
>
> (not Lewis Carroll)
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