Re: New color tables in NCL

Hi Carl,

Thanks for the additional color tables. The "colorbrewer_wet" is one that we don't really have.

We do have "hotcold", "drywet" and "set3" colormaps that appear close to the ones you included, but yours are slightly smaller and very clearly delineated.

These are similar to the colorbrewer_hotcold one:

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/ColorTables/hotcold_18lev.shtml
http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/ColorTables/hotcolr_19lev.shtml
http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/ColorTables/posneg_1.shtml
http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/ColorTables/posneg_2.shtml

These are similar to the colorbrewer_drywet one:

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/ColorTables/GMT_drywet.shtml
http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/ColorTables/BrownBlue12.shtml

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/ColorTables/precip_diff_12lev.shtml

This one is a larger version of your 'set3':
http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/ColorTables/MPL_Set3.shtml

If I add these, do you mind if I change the "colorbrewer_" part of the name to "CBR_"? I don't want to use "CB" unless these are color-blind friendly. That is, did you get these using the "color-blind" checkbox on the color brewer page?

--Mary

On Nov 22, 2013, at 6:57 AM, Carl Schreck <cjschrec@ncsu.edu> wrote:

> Hi Mary,
>
> This is great! It's always wonderful to have more colors to play with. If 110 isn't enough, I've had great luck importing some of the color schemes from http://colorbrewer2.org/ They tend to look nice, and they have some more color-blind options. Attached are the ones I use most often.
>
> Carl
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Mary Haley <haley@ucar.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm pleased to announce that the next version of NCL will contain 110+ new color tables. These tables are available for download now.
>
> To see a gallery of the color tables and/or to download them individually or as a giant tar file, see:
>
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/color_table_gallery.shtml
>
> Most of these new tables were contributed by Nicolas Barrier of Laboratoire de Physique des Oceans and Melissa Bukovsky of NCAR.
> They gathered color tables from other software packages like Ncview, GMT, and matplotlib, and put them in readable form for NCL
>
> As always, the NCL team is grateful for these kind of contributions!
>
> --Mary
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