Re: black and white and color shading polar plot without grid lines

From: Waqar Younas <vickyqau_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Wed Dec 19 2012 - 20:18:22 MST

Thank you very much.
Everything is OK now.
One more question is how to remove the contour lines with zero value?
Thanks.

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Adam Phillips <asphilli@ucar.edu> wrote:

> Hi Waqar,
> Grays range from dark ("gray25" for example) to light ("gray90" for
> example). See the named colors page here:
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/named_colors.shtml
>
> If you are using NCL version 6.1.0, you can ask for a named color and it
> will be automatically added to your colormap and is available for you. If
> you are using a previous NCL build, you will have to have defined a
> colorbar with the shade of gray you are calling for in it (see the gsdtol
> colormap for instance here:
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/ColorTables/gsdtol.shtml) or
> you can individually add the color to your colormap using NhlNewColor and
> specifying constant RGB values like .3,.3,.3 for gray30 for instance. (See:
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/ColorTables/gsdtol.shtml ).
>
> With regards to the line label contour, I was going to point you to the
> Contour Labels example page (http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/ ->
> Contour Labels ) but there wasn't an example on how to do this. The
> resource you are after is cnLineLabelFontColor:
>
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/Resources/cn.shtml#cnLineLabelFontColor
>
> Finally, with regards to the resources not working, setting
> res@mpGridAndLimbOn = False and res@gsnPolarLabelFontHeightF = 0.0
> should work. I noticed that in my original reply I typed mpGridandLimbOn
> instead of mpGridAndLimbOn. Make sure the A in And is capitalized.
>
> Setting gsnPolarLabelFontHeightF = 0.0 just worked for me in a recent
> script of mine. If that continues to not work please respond to ncl-talk
> with the version of NCL that you are using..
> Good luck,
> Adam
>
>
>
> On 12/19/12 6:04 PM, Waqar Younas wrote:
>
> Thank you for your kind response.
> I used the gsn_contour_shade for "color" fill and used the
> opt@gsnShadeLow="black" and opt@gsnShadeHigh="grey". The picture is
> attached.
> Now instead of black color i want to add dark grey and i do not know how
> to put the name. I also need names of colors which could be set for
> opt@gsnShadeLow and Shadehigh (either i use "color" or "pattern" fill).
> In addition, i want to add contour values on the contour lines (in a white
> color so that they can be visible),
>
> Two more things,
> res@mpGridandLimbOn = False and set res@gsnPolarLabelFontHeightF = 0 are
> not working. I am still getting the grid lines and longitude labels.
> Thanks.
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Adam Phillips <asphilli@ucar.edu> wrote:
>
>> res@mpGridandLimbOn = False
>
>
>
>
> --
> Best Regards
>
> Waqar Younas
> PhD Candidate
> Natural Resources and Environmental Studies (NRES)
> University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC)
> Canada
>
>
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Best Regards
Waqar Younas
PhD Candidate
Natural Resources and Environmental Studies (NRES)
University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC)
Canada

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