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Paneling WRF-NCL plots

As of V5.0.0 of NCL, you can't panel WRF plots generated by wrf_overlay or wrf_map_overlay, because these procedures remove the overlays before they are exited. (In other words, you would end up with plots with maps only, and no overlaid contours or vectors.)

We've gotten many requests from WRF users to be able to panel plots from the suite of the WRF plotting functions. In addition to the overlay issue mentioned above, these plots are not really meant to be paneled as they contain external titles and white space. This causes the plots to be rather small when you try to panel them. Click on this sample WRF plot to see a sample of the titles and white space.

I've modified wrf_overlay and wrf_map_overlay so you can set a special "PanelPlot" resource which signals that you plan to do some paneling.

With these updated procedures, I did a series of tests to see what happens when you try to panel different types of WRF plots.

With each new plot, I improved the paneled plots in some fashion. The point of all this is to show how there are different options for paneling WRF plots. Also, I want to get your feedback on how you'd like your paneled plots to look. Drop Mary an email, and even better, attach some images of the types of WRF plots you need to be able to panel.

[You need to download WRFUserARW_new.ncl and gsn_code_new.ncl in order to run the new scripts.]

  1. Simple examples of contours over a map.
  2. Examples of different-sized WRF plots over a map.
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