<div dir="ltr"><div>Not sure why it thinks there's a string involved.  <br></div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps use the re-assignment operator  ":="</div><div><br></div><div>Or, perhaps wrap the color in a call to rgba_to_color_index:</div><div><br></div><div>     res@mpOceanFillColor = rgba_to_color_index((/<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">205.,255.,255.,1.0/))    ; note the added opacity value</font></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">HTH...</font></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Rick</font></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 11:36 AM Andrew Kren - NOAA Federal <<a href="mailto:andrew.kren@noaa.gov">andrew.kren@noaa.gov</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">Hi Rick,<div><br><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">I set the ocean color as this:</font></div><div>





<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">res@mpOceanFillColor = (/205.,255.,255./)</font></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">I got this error message:</font></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">





</font></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">fatal:Mul: operation not supported on type (string)</font></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Thanks!</font></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></p></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 1:30 PM Rick Brownrigg <<a href="mailto:brownrig@ucar.edu" target="_blank">brownrig@ucar.edu</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"><div>Hi Andrew,</div><div><br></div><div>How did you try to set the ocean color, and what was the error NCL gave?</div><div><br></div><div>Rick<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 10:53 AM Andrew Kren - NOAA Federal via ncl-talk <<a href="mailto:ncl-talk@mailman.ucar.edu" target="_blank">ncl-talk@mailman.ucar.edu</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">Hi there,<div><br></div><div>I have a random question. I am plotting surface smoke from the HRRR but decided to add color to the ocean and inland water. When I plotted data for Alaska, since the HRRR domain only extends so far, the "cyan" color I chose ends up becoming noticeable outside the plotted region. I believe the reason the color shade is off is because I set a fill opacity less than 1, which makes the ocean in the plotted region lighter. See plotted image of the discrepancy.</div><div><br></div><div>My question is, is there a way to get these two to match up without having to change the fill opacity? Alternatively, I tried to set the ocean fill color to the RGB triplet of the lighter ocean from the contour fill, but NCL gave an error.</div><div><br></div><div>Any feedback is appreciated! Thanks.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><pre cols="72" style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"arial black",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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: <a href="mailto:andrew.kren@noaa.gov" target="_blank">andrew.kren@noaa.gov</a></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><a href="http://www.weather.gov/rah" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://www.weather.gov/rah</span></a></pre></div><div dir="ltr"><img src="https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/pix/AOML/50th01.png" width="420" height="65"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><br></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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Meteorologist 
NOAA's National Weather Service
Raleigh Forecast Office
1005 Capability Drive, Suite 300
Raleigh, North Carolina 27606
voice: 919-326-1035 
mailto: <a href="mailto:andrew.kren@noaa.gov" target="_blank">andrew.kren@noaa.gov</a></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><a href="http://www.weather.gov/rah" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://www.weather.gov/rah</span></a></pre></div><div dir="ltr"><img src="https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/pix/AOML/50th01.png" width="420" height="65"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><br></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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