<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">In NCL that graphic is best plotted as a long thin rectangle, not a line. Use the gsn_add_polygon function. Example 2 on that function's documentation page does almost exactly what you want.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The resources gsnDraw and gsnFrame, and sequencing of the two plot commands and the draw and frame statements are important. In the order shown, they cause the polygon to be drawn as an overlay on the base plot, instead of on a separate page.<br><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 8:47 PM lslrsgis--- via ncl-talk <<a href="mailto:ncl-talk@mailman.ucar.edu">ncl-talk@mailman.ucar.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
<div>Dear NCL Community,<span></span></div><div><br></div><div>May I know how to add a solid gray horizontal line (representing urban area) at bottom of vertial cross section plot as attached figure? Thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>What I have found as one similar example is only as follows without bottom gray line:</div><div><a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/Images/wrf_interp_3_lg.png" target="_blank">https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/Images/wrf_interp_3_lg.png</a></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div>