Re: zooming in on a map plot

From: Schiffer, Nicole June <nschiff2_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Wed Nov 07 2012 - 15:20:53 MST

That works fine for TRMM data, but it seems to smash all of the WRF data
into a window of that size rather than lining it up with the proper
lat-lon values. Do I need to set another resource for WRF to work?

Thanks,
Nicole

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"Adam Phillips", 11/7/12 4:08 PM:

>Hi Nicole,
>You can usually do this by setting mpLimitMode along with a few
>complimentary resources. For instance:
>
>res@mpLimitMode = "LatLon"
>res@mpMinLonF = 130.
>res@mpMaxLonF = 220.
>res@mpCenterLonF = (res@mpMinLonF+res@mpMaxLonF)/2.
>res@mpMinLatF = 20.
>res@mpMaxLatF = 75.
>
>See:
>http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/Resources/mp.shtml#mpLimitMode
>
>Hope that helps! Adam
>
>On 11/07/2012 02:27 PM, Schiffer, Nicole June wrote:
>> Is there a way to zoom in on a map plot without plotting only a subset
>>of
>> the data or masking the data?
>>
>> Masking shows only the data I want, but it doesn't fill the whole plot
>> window. Plotting a subset of the data is not trivial, but is doable if I
>> can't just limit the bounds of the plot.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Nicole
>>
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>> * Graduate Research Fellow (Dept. of Energy)
>> * Department of Atmospheric Sciences
>> * University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
>> * Email: nschiff2 [at] illinois [dot] edu
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>>
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