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Axes

This page shows how to control the axes of any plot, like linearizing an irregular axis, converting one to a log axis, and turning off borders and/or tickmarks.
axes_1.ncl: This is a simple script that uses dummy data with a Y axis that has irregularly-spaced values. The second frame shows how setting gsnYAxisIrregular2Linear to True will linearize the Y axis. Note what this does to the contours.
axes_2.ncl: This script shows how to convert an irregular axis to a log axis by setting gsnYAxisIrregular2Log to True.
axes_3.ncl: This script shows various ways you can control all four axes of a plot. Although this is an XY plot, these techniques apply for contour and vector plots as well.