Re: A few questions on improving the attached figure

Hi Adam,
  Thank you. Now it works. By the way, I used
mapa2_at_cnInfoLabelOrthogonalPosF = 0.12 to move down the information label.
 Thanks again.
  Lei

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Adam Phillips <asphilli_at_ucar.edu> wrote:

> Hi Lei,
> There are a large number of resources that control the Information Label. I
> think you want to use cnInfoLabelOrthogonalPosF:
>
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/Resources/cn.shtml#cnInfoLabelOrthogonalPosF
> try setting it to -0.02 and see if that works for you.
>
> As far as the land color goes, I bet the colormap that you have defined
> does not have gray in it. If that is true, then NCL will choose the color
> that it thinks is closest to gray, in your case that seems to be light blue.
>
> (Note that if you are not defining a colormap via gsn_define_colormap or
> gsn_merge_colormaps, that NCL will automatically use the default colormap
> shown here:
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/ColorTables/default.shtml )
>
> You have two options:
> 1) Choose a colormap with gray in it, and define it
> ex. gsn_define_colormap(wks,"rainbow+gray")
> 2) Add the color gray to the existing loaded colormap via NhLNewColor:
> ex. gsn_define_colormap(wks,"BlWhRe")
> nc = NhlNewColor(wks,0.7,0.7,0.7) ; will add gray70 to colormap
>
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/NhlNewColor.shtml
>
> Note that setting all three values the same in NhlNewColor will result in
> black, different shades of grays, or white.
> Hope that helps,
> Adam
>
>
> Lei wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> For the attached figure, how to change the color of shading to grey? In
>> my code, I used
>> mapa_at_cnMonoFillColor = True
>> mapa_at_cnFillColor = "Grey"
>> But the output color is in light blue.
>> A second question is how to move "CONTOUR FROM -3 TO 3 BY .2" down below
>> the longitude. In the figure, it partially covers 90W.
>> Please provide help if you have some suggestions. Thank you very much in
>> advance.
>> Lei
>>
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