<div dir="ltr">Thanks Rick. "central african republic" works without dashes. I am only remaining with congo dr. I tried "democratic republic of congo", "congo democratic republic". Both do not work.
I will use a plot without masking.. just for interest, the script used is attached.</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, Aug 2, 2022 at 12:18 AM Rick Brownrigg <<a href="mailto:brownrig@ucar.edu">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 Zilore,</div><div><br></div><div>It might help to see the rest of your map resources. I'm uncertain as to which map-names database is being used. Is it possible that Zaire is also "Democratic Republic of the Congo" (forgive my ignorance). I see "Central African Republic" in all the names databases. There are no dashes between the names, as there are in the mask_specs. But if that were the issue, then other names in that list, like ivory-coast and equator-guinea should also result in warnings. I can find no docs that indicate the dashes are needed or ignored, nor that the names in the mask are case insensitive?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Rick<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 3:44 PM Zilore Mumba 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"><div>Hello,</div><div>I am plotting a map of 2m temperatures over a part of Africa (see graphic attached). In my mask_specs, the script says "warning:MapV41DHUpdateDrawList: invalid boundary specification string: "central-african-republic". There is the same arning for zaire.</div><div>The mask_specs I have from the ncl website (mask_4.ncl) are as below.</div><div>Can someone advise me how these countries are called for masking?<br></div><div>;mask_specs = (/\<br> ;"algeria","angola","angola-exclave-called-cabinda","benin","botswana",\<br> ;"burundi","cameroon","central-african-republic","chad","congo","djibouti",\<br> ;"egypt","equatorial-guinea","ethiopia","gabon","gambia","ghana","guinea",\<br> ;"guinea-bissau","ivory-coast","kenya","lesotho","liberia","libya",\<br> ;"madagascar","malawi","mali","mauritania","mauritius","morocco",\<br> ;"mozambique","namibia","niger","nigeria","rwanda","senegal","sierra-leone",\<br> ;"somalia","south-africa","sudan","swaziland","tanzania","togo","tunisia",\<br> ;"uganda","upper-volta","western-sahara","zaire","zambia","zimbabwe"/)<br></div></div>
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