[ncl-talk] weird color shown in plots

[Ming Chen]

Rick,

I turned off all the default settings. I only loaded intel compiler and 
ncl/6.5.0, But I still got the wrong color.

Is this possibly an issue of environmental settings?

Ming

On 4/9/19 10:06 AM, Rick Brownrigg wrote:
> Well, now I can't reproduce the issue!   I saw what you were seeing 
> last night while running on cheyenne logged in from home. Now this 
> morning, logged into cheyenne from the office, I'm seeing the expected 
> colors. This does not make sense! I will test again from home this 
> evening, but I have no explanation as to why that should make any 
> difference :-/
>
> More as I know it.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 9:48 AM Ming Chen <chenming at ucar.edu 
> <mailto:chenming at ucar.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Rick,
>
>     Thank you for getting back to me quickly. I just type 'module load
>     ncl' to enable ncl in cheyenne.   The command "module list" shows
>
>     Currently Loaded Modules:
>       1) ncarenv/1.2    3) ncarcompilers/0.4.1   5) netcdf/4.6.1   7)
>     nco/4.7.4   9) ncview/2.1.7
>       2) intel/17.0.1   4) mpt/2.19              6) xxdiff/4.0.1   8)
>     ncl/6.5.0  10) grib-bins/1.1
>
>     The command  "echo $NCARG_ROOT"  yields
>     "/glade/u/apps/ch/opt/ncl/6.5.0/intel/17.0.1"
>
>     I notice this issue because the plots in my desktop and the plots
>     in cheyenne are different when I run the same NCL script and
>     process the same data.
>
>     Thanks.
>
>     Ming
>
>
>     On 4/8/19 7:10 PM, Rick Brownrigg wrote:
>>     Hi Ming,
>>
>>     This is very strange. I see the differences in color that you
>>     refer to, but I downloaded the ncl script from your directory and
>>     I get the same colors as shown on the web site. I see that
>>     there's no attempt in the script to modify the colormap, so it
>>     should be the default colormap
>>     (http://ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/ColorTables/ncl_default.shtml),
>>     However your plots have a few colors that are not part of that
>>     default map (??)
>>
>>     How are you enabling NCL in cheyenne, and what does "echo
>>     $NCARG_ROOT" report?
>>
>>     Rick
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 5:24 PM Ming Chen <chenming at ucar.edu
>>     <mailto:chenming at ucar.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>         Hello,
>>
>>         I found that the colors in my plot are not the colors I
>>         specify. Please
>>         see the files saved in /glade/scratch/chenming/station/
>>
>>         I downloaded "station_2.ncl"  from NCL website, and run it
>>         without any
>>         modification. The png files are quite different to the sample
>>         figures
>>         shown in the NCL website.  In my case, it seems that somehow
>>         the colors
>>         are changed.
>>
>>         I run this  script on cheyenne. Does anyone know what could
>>         be the reason?
>>
>>         Thanks.
>>
>>         Ming
>>
>>
>>
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