[ncl-talk] wind barbs in southern hemisphere

Dennis Shea shea at ucar.edu
Fri May 31 13:37:24 MDT 2019


Hopefully, somebody who knows about WRF graphics will respond.

--
Perhaps, *before calling the WRF graphics*, try the low level NCAR Graphics
option:

   *wmsetp*
<http://www.ncarg.ucar.edu//supplements/wmap/index.html#HEADING1-225>("wba",-62.0)
                   ; NH (default) is 62.0

On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 1:20 PM Zilore Mumba <zmumba at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dennis,
> Thanks very much. I have seen that barbs are drawn correctly for he
> southern and northern hemispheres on the link you gave.
>  I am drawing WRF output. My domain is entirely in the southern hemisphere
> but barbs are on the left. I use one of the sample wrf scripts which plots
> several levels in one script, though now I cannot remember which one.
> The barb color change works.
> Once more, thank you very much.
>
> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 4:14 PM Dennis Shea <shea at ucar.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> [1]* http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/barb.shtml*
>> <http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/barb.shtml>
>>
>> If you are plotting over  grid, the Northern/Southern Hemisphere wind
>> barbs are *automatically* drawn to the left/right.
>> See the main figure, entitled "Default Wind Barbs"
>>
>> [2] vc resources:
>>
>>      vcMonoWindBarbColor=True  ; this is the default
>>
>> *vcWindBarbColor="red"      ; wind barb color*
>>
>> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 4:48 AM Zilore Mumba <zmumba at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>> especially the managers at ncl, I have two questions:
>>> 1. My wind barbs are drawn to the left of the wind, facing downstream. I
>>> am in the southern hemisphere where we have to have barbs to the right.
>>> 2. Is it possible to have barbs all red, or all any color. I have only
>>> seen colored by a scalar.
>>> hank you.
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