[ncl-talk] Strange issue on plotting

Andrew Kren - NOAA Federal andrew.kren at noaa.gov
Wed Sep 29 13:18:19 MDT 2021


I'll try that.

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 2:09 PM Joseph Clark <jpclark186000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Sorry for jumping in here. Perhaps set resources at cnLevelSelectionMode =
> "AutomaticLevels". My guess is your data is out of the range on your color
> bar on these days. I think the automatically generated color bar will tell
> you what the range of your data values are.
>
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 1:58 PM Andrew Kren - NOAA Federal via ncl-talk <
> ncl-talk at mailman.ucar.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Adam,
>> Thanks for the quick reply. There are no error messages when it plots the
>> two regions. I would say no to your second question. For example, for the
>> same hour, the regional map shows a totally different picture but the
>> zoomed in version is all one color. I am using the same HRRR grid to plot
>> both regions. Could it be that I need to use a different fill type (raster
>> vs another) since the data can be sort of non-uniform and NCL is trying to
>> smoothly contour it?
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 1:11 PM Adam Phillips <asphilli at ucar.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Andrew,
>>> 2 questions:
>>> 1 - Are any error messages returned when the plot with the red fill
>>> occurs?
>>> 2 - Is there a chance that the HRRR data for that particular metric and
>>> region all fits into one contour interval (as for example all the data has
>>> values say greater than 50kft, or all data falls between 5-10kft)?
>>> Adam
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 2:48 AM Andrew Kren - NOAA Federal via ncl-talk <
>>> ncl-talk at mailman.ucar.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi there,
>>>>
>>>> I'm wondering if anyone has ever run into this issue when plotting. I
>>>> am contouring HRRR cloud ceiling data on a regional and local domain of NC.
>>>> For certain hours, there is one color on top of the map, such that it
>>>> appears the contouring didn't work correctly. This is only found on the
>>>> smaller domain and not the regional domain for the same time periods. I
>>>> thought maybe this was related to me using a triangular mesh, but that
>>>> wouldn't fully make sense. I am attaching the images.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Andrew Kren
>>>> Meteorologist
>>>> NOAA's National Weather Service
>>>> Raleigh Forecast Office
>>>> 1005 Capability Drive, Suite 300
>>>> Raleigh, North Carolina 27606
>>>> voice: 919-326-1035
>>>> mailto: andrew.kren at noaa.govhttp://www.weather.gov/rah
>>>>
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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>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Andrew Kren
>> Meteorologist
>> NOAA's National Weather Service
>> Raleigh Forecast Office
>> 1005 Capability Drive, Suite 300
>> Raleigh, North Carolina 27606
>> voice: 919-326-1035
>> mailto: andrew.kren at noaa.govhttp://www.weather.gov/rah
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Andrew Kren
Meteorologist
NOAA's National Weather Service
Raleigh Forecast Office
1005 Capability Drive, Suite 300
Raleigh, North Carolina 27606
voice: 919-326-1035
mailto: andrew.kren at noaa.govhttp://www.weather.gov/rah
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