Re: Plotting Antarctica

From: Mary Haley <haley_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Wed Feb 23 2011 - 07:44:58 MST

Rosemarie,

I believe the Earth..3 database should be giving you the edge of the land, and not the ice shelves.

If you go to the page that lists all the areas for Earth..3, you won't see any mention of ice shelves:

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/HLUs/Classes/MapPlotData4_1_earth_3.shtml

On the Earth..4 page, however, you do:

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/HLUs/Classes/MapPlotData4_1_earth_4.shtml

--Mary

On Feb 22, 2011, at 12:44 PM, Rosemarie Drummond wrote:

> If I plot a map of Antarctica and specify mpDataBaseVersion = "Ncarg4_1"
> then if I set mpDataSetName = "Earth..3", it will plot the edge of the
> ice-shelves
> but if I set mpdataSetName = "Earth..4", it will plot both the edge of
> the land below the ice-shelves and the edge of the ice-shelves.
>
> I am just wondering if there is a combination that I have missed, that
> would just plot the edge of the land?
>
> Thanks
> Rosemarie
> PS I am using gsn_csm_contour_map_polar but I don't suppose that makes
> any difference in this.
>
> --
> Dr Rosemarie Drummond
> rmarie@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca
>
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