Re: using gsn_contour_shade

Hi Adam,

Just tried your suggestion, and still get no map. I know I can always go
the route of specifying contour fill colors and explicitly setting contour
levels, but would like to be able to use the shading function, seems much
more elegant. What now?

Danny

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Adam Phillips <asphilli@ucar.edu> wrote:

> Hi Danny,
> You are on the right track with using the *DrawOrder resources. (I assume
> that this was just a typo in the email, but make sure you capitalize the P
> in "PostDraw".) As you do not want to fill the map, and all you want is
> the map outline to be drawn last, try setting re@mpOutlineDrawOrder =
> "PostDraw".
>
> For a list of the DrawOrder resources:
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/draworder.shtml
>
> If setting mpOutlineDrawOrder doesn't work let ncl-talk know.
> Adam
>
>
> On 10/04/2012 12:06 PM, Daniel Barandiaran wrote:
>
> Hi NCLers,
>
> I was just trying to use the gsn_contour_shade function, if the
> following way:
>
> opt = True
> opt@gsnShadeFillType = "color"
> opt@gsnShadeHigh = 2
>
> plot(0) = gsn_csm_contour_map(wks,psiJASclim(2,:,:),res)
> plot(0) = gsn_contour_shade(plot(0),-999.,0.,opt)
>
> and when I run it, the contour filling overlays the map, rendering the
> map invisible. I tried setting res@mpFillDrawOrder = "postDraw", but
> then the map elements cover up the shading that was drawn with
> gsn_contour_shade. I don't even necessarily want the map to be filled in,
> I just want to see the continental outlines. Any ideas? Just in case this
> matters, I am running NCL version 6.0.0.
>
> Danny Barandiaran
>
>
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