[ncl-talk] custom string labels in time-axis

[Tabish Ansari]

Hi Adam

Excellent! It worked.
Thank you.

Cheers,

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


On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 at 22:47, Adam Phillips <asphilli at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Hi Tabish,
> My note about setting tmXBValues was made as users who haven't set
> tmXBValues before can run into trouble (and not get any labels whatsoever)
> if the range of values of tmXBValues does not overlap with the x input to
> gsn_csm_xy.
>
> You can set tmXBLabels to whatever you want, but make sure the range of
> values specified in tmXBValues is in the range of the 2nd input of
> gsn_csm_xy (as it is in the example coding below):
> res at tmXBMode = "Explicit"
> res at tmXBValues = (/1,25,49,73/)
> res at tmXBLabels = (/"Day 1","Day 2","Day 3","Day 4"/)
> plot = gsn_csm_xy(wks,ispan(1,97,1),arr,res)
>
> Adam
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 3:39 PM Tabish Ansari <tabishumaransari at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Adam,
>>
>> Thanks for the reply.
>>
>> The issue here is that I have 10 lines (arrays of length 120 hours)
>> within a single xy plot
>> and these arrays don't correspond in time - they have different starting
>> and ending dates.
>> Nevertheless, for the purpose of my analysis, I want to show them stacked
>> over each other
>> since they're of the same length.
>>
>> So I need *exactly* these major tickmark labels: "Day1, Day2, Day3, Day4,
>> Day5" at the 1st, 25th, 49th, 73rd and 97th hours
>> on the x-axis.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Tabish
>>
>>
>> Tabish U Ansari
>> PhD student, Lancaster Environment Center
>> Lancaster Univeristy
>> Bailrigg, Lancaster,
>> LA1 4YW, United Kingdom
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 at 22:19, Adam Phillips <asphilli at ucar.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Tabish,
>>> Yes, see tickmark example 2 here:
>>> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/tickmarks.shtml#ex2
>>>
>>> Note though that the values set in tmXBValues must be within the range
>>> of times specified in the x-input in gsn_csm_xy. For example, if you create
>>> your plot like this:
>>> plot(1) = gsn_csm_xy(wks,ispan(1950,2005,1),arr,res)
>>> your times run from 1950 to 2005, and your tmXBValues need to be set
>>> within that range.
>>>
>>> If you have any further questions let ncl-talk know.
>>> Adam
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 3:13 PM Tabish Ansari <
>>> tabishumaransari at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I'm plotting arrays of length 120 through gsn_csm_xy() function.
>>>> I've been using time_axis_labels function before but this time it's a
>>>> slightly different
>>>> situation and I want my x-axis to be labelled as:
>>>> Day1, Day2, Day3, Day4, Day5
>>>> every 24th hour along the 120 hours.
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to do this?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Tabish
>>>>
>>>> Tabish U Ansari
>>>> PhD student, Lancaster Environment Center
>>>> Lancaster Univeristy
>>>> Bailrigg, Lancaster,
>>>> LA1 4YW, United Kingdom
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>>>
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>>
>
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> Adam Phillips
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>
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