[ncl-talk] Strange issue on plotting

Adam Phillips asphilli at ucar.edu
Wed Sep 29 13:31:02 MDT 2021


Joseph: Thanks for jumping in! I was wondering if it was the same issue you
identified. Andrew: Please let us know the results..
Adam

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 1:18 PM Andrew Kren - NOAA Federal <
andrew.kren at noaa.gov> wrote:

> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> ncl-talk mailing list
>>>>> ncl-talk at mailman.ucar.edu
>>>>> List instructions, subscriber options, unsubscribe:
>>>>> https://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-talk
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> ncl-talk mailing list
>>> ncl-talk at mailman.ucar.edu
>>> List instructions, subscriber options, unsubscribe:
>>> https://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-talk
>>
>>
>
> --
>
> 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
>
>
>

-- 
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>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://mailman.ucar.edu/pipermail/ncl-talk/attachments/20210929/9e6f9dc1/attachment.html>


More information about the ncl-talk mailing list