<div dir="ltr">Joseph, sorry I did not show all the code because I did not want to put too much text. There are contouring of rh and other variables before the map overlay. Below is the code I left out before doing the overlays..<div>      ; Plotting options for RH                <br>        opts = res<br>        opts@cnFillOn = True<br>        opts@pmLabelBarOrthogonalPosF = -0.1<br>        opts@ContourParameters = (/ 10., 90., 10./)<br>        opts@cnFillColors = (/"White","White","White", \<br>                              "White","Chartreuse","Green",\<br>                              "Green3","Green4", \<br>                              "ForestGreen","PaleGreen4"/)<br>        contour_rh = wrf_contour(files_all[it],wks,rh_plane,opts)<br>        delete(opts)<br><br>      ; Plotting options for Wind Speed                <br>        opts = res<br>        opts@cnLineColor = "MediumSeaGreen"<br>        opts@ContourParameters = (/ 10. /)<br>        opts@cnInfoLabelOrthogonalPosF = 0.07  ; offset second label information<br>        opts@gsnContourLineThicknessesScale = 3.0<br>        contour_spd = wrf_contour(files_all[it],wks,spd,opts)<br>        delete(opts)<br><br>      ; Plotting options for Wind Vectors                 <br>        opts = res<br>        opts@FieldTitle = "Wind"   ; overwrite Field Title<br>        opts@NumVectors = 47       ; wind barb density<br>        vector = wrf_vector(files_all[it],wks,u_plane,v_plane,opts)<br>        delete(opts)<br></div></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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</table><a href="#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 5:24 PM Joseph Clark <<a href="mailto:jpclark186000@gmail.com">jpclark186000@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Oh I see that now.<br><br>It looks like you are overlaying contour_tc with plots named contour_rh and contour_height. I can't see where these plots are produced in your code. Is it possible that contour_rh and contour_height have gsnLeftString and gsnRightStrings set to values?<br><br>Joe</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 11:08 AM Zilore Mumba <<a href="mailto:zmumba@gmail.com" target="_blank">zmumba@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thanks Joseph for your intervention. res@gsn.. are actually being captured. This is through,firstly there is res=True, then before opts is used there is opts=res. I confirm they are captured by printing print(opts). In that print the fields are there. The output of "print(opts)" is<div>Variable: opts<br>Type: logical<br>Total Size: 4 bytes<br>            1 values<br>Number of Dimensions: 1<br>Dimensions and sizes:       [1]<br>Coordinates: <br>Number Of Attributes: 10<br>  gsnContourLineThicknessesScale :        2<br>  cnInfoLabelOrthogonalPosF :      0.07<br>  ContourParameters :     5<br>  cnLineColor :    Red<br>  MainTitle :     WRF MODEL OUTPUT<br>  Footer :   False<br>  cnInfoLabelOn :       False<br>  gsnCenterString :     <br>  gsnLeftString :    <br>  gsnRightString :   <br>(0)   True<br></div></div><div id="gmail-m_-8376375158042282936gmail-m_-1919973380634856049DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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ile = files_all[:]->Times<br>  dims = dimsizes (times)<br>   ntimes = dimsizes (times(:,0))<br><br>  times_to_use = new(dims(0),string)<br><br>  do i=0,dims(0)-1<br>    times_to_use(i) = chartostring(times_in_file(i,8:12))<br>  end do<br>;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;<br>  do it = 0,ntimes(0)-1,2             ; TIME LOOP<br><br>    print("Working on time: " +  times_to_use(it) )<br>    res@TimeLabel =  times_to_use(it)   ; Set Valid time to use on plots<br><br>;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;<br>; First get the variables we will need        <br><br>    tc = wrf_user_getvar(files_all,"tc",it)        ; T in C<br>    u  = wrf_user_getvar(files_all,"ua",it)        ; u averaged to mass points<br>    v  = wrf_user_getvar(files_all,"va",it)        ; v averaged to mass points<br>    p  = wrf_user_getvar(files_all, "pressure",it) ; pressure is our vertical coordinate<br>    z  = wrf_user_getvar(files_all, "z",it)        ; grid point height<br>    rh = wrf_user_getvar(files_all,"rh",it)        ; relative humidity<br>;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;<br>    do level = 0,nlevels-1                 ; LOOP OVER LEVELS<br>      pressure = pressure_levels(level)<br><br>      tc_plane = wrf_user_intrp3d(tc,p,"h",pressure,0.,False)<br>      z_plane  = wrf_user_intrp3d( z,p,"h",pressure,0.,False)<br>      rh_plane = wrf_user_intrp3d(rh,p,"h",pressure,0.,False)<br>      u_plane  = wrf_user_intrp3d( u,p,"h",pressure,0.,False)<br>      v_plane  = wrf_user_intrp3d( v,p,"h",pressure,0.,False)<br><br>      spd     = (u_plane*u_plane + v_plane*v_plane)^(0.5) ; m/sec<br>      spd@description = "Wind Speed"<br>      spd@units = "m/s"<br>      u_plane = u_plane*1.94386     ; kts<br>      v_plane = v_plane*1.94386     ; kts<br>      u_plane@units = "kts"<br>      v_plane@units = "kts"<br><br>      wks = gsn_open_wks(type,"Plots00-" + "P" + pressure_levels(level) + "_" + times_to_use(it) + "Z")   <br>      <br>      ; Plotting options for T                <br> <font color="#f3f3f3"> <span style="background-color:rgb(153,0,255)">      opts = res<br>        print(opts)</span><span style="background-color:rgb(0,255,255)">)</span></font><br><br>        opts@cnLineColor = "Red"<br>        opts@ContourParameters = (/ 5.0 /)<br>        opts@cnInfoLabelOrthogonalPosF = 0.07  ; offset second label information<br>        opts@gsnContourLineThicknessesScale = 2.0<br>        contour_tc = wrf_contour(files_all[it],wks,tc_plane,opts)<br>        delete(opts)<br>       <div>       ; MAKE PLOT                             <br>        if ( pressure .eq. 850 ) then   ; plot temp, rh, height, wind barbs<br>          opts_z@ContourParameters = (/ 20.0 /)<br>          contour_height = wrf_contour(files_all[it],wks,z_plane,opts_z)<br>          plot = wrf_map_overlays(files_all[it],wks,(/contour_rh,contour_tc,contour_height, \<br>                                    vector/),pltres,mpres)<br>        end if<br><div><br></div><div>    end do      ; END OF LEVEL LOOP<br>;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;<br>  end do        ; END OF TIME LOOP<br>end<br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><div id="gmail-m_-8376375158042282936gmail-m_-1919973380634856049gmail-m_8223286762302240149gmail-m_4986238943696855104DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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