If you have a unique or impressive visualization you would like to see on this page, please email Mary Haley or Adam Phillips and include or attach the following:
unique_1.ncl:
A real world plot showing the best tracks for a given season storms,
including all data (subtropical storms, depressions, extratropical
lows, etc).
This script was written by Jonathan Vigh, a PhD candidate student in the Atmospheric Sciences department at Colorado State University.
unique_2.ncl:
A stick plot created by calling gsn_vector and by
setting the resource vcMapDirection = False,
which allow the vectors to be in their own reference frame.
This script was written by Matt Stumbaugh of NOAA.
unique_3.ncl:
A lengthy script that draws three different plots on the
top half of the page. Five different colormaps are used on one page
by drawing each individual plot before the next plot is created. This is done
by setting gsnDraw = True (which is the default) or
by calling draw before the next plot is created.
To avoid advancing the frame, gsnFrame is set to False; the frame
is advanced at the end of the script by calling frame.
unique_4.ncl:
This script creates an animation of the January 1996 snow storm. Wind
vectors are colored by temperature and overlaid on a map along with a
500 mb streamline plot and a color-filled pressure field contour plot.
Only three of the frames are shown here. but click here for an animation.
unique_5.ncl:
This script creates a bar chart denoting monthly standard deviation
values for 4 different timeseries. The legend is created by using
gsn_legend_ndc.
unique_6.ncl:
This script creates a panel plot with ten XY plots and a legend at the
bottom. Each XY plot in the panel is an overlay of three plots with a
combination of solid lines, dashed lines, and markers. The overlay function is used to do the overlays,
and the functions gsn_text_ndc,
gsn_add_polymarker, and gsn_legend_ndc are used to annotate the
figure.
unique_7.ncl (script not available yet):
This animation, sent to us by
Dr. Ram Nair of SCD/NCAR, is a simulation of an idealized vortex
evolution on the sphere. He presented the result at an international
seminar PDEs on Sphere 2006. This is a test-case for
advection/transport problem on the sphere.
unique_8.ncl:
This script creates a contour plot of sea surface temperature and
overlays a storm track for Hurricane Katrina. It was contributed by
Kimberly Trent (a 2006 SOARS student of
NCAR/UCAR), with help from Adam Phillips and Mary Haley, also of NCAR.
The track data came from NHC reports from the document "Tropical Cyclone Report Hurricane Katrina" (Richard D. Knabb, Jamie R. Rhome, and Daniel P. Brown). The SST field was obtained from NCEP.
The storm track is done using filled and hollow circles, and polylines. The circles are created using the NhlNewMarker function. A legend is created using calls to gsn_text and gsn_polymarker.
unique_9.ncl:
This script shows how to create a topographic map using a
raster contour graphic colored by elevation.
The elevation data and lat/lon information is read off a Fortran binary file. This example is also available as a Python script using PyNGL to generate the graphics and PyNIO to read the data from a netCDF file. See the PyNGL gallery for a pointer to the script.
This example was written by Mark Stevens of NCAR.
