Re: fill in map color, overlay with wrf_contour plot

Hi Ying,
You can try using wrf_overlays:
https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/WRF_arw/wrf_overlays.shtml
Adam


On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Ying Song <ysong4@slu.edu> wrote:

> Thanks, Adam. I add cnFillDrawOrder = "PostDraw" in the wrf_contour
> resource list, it works well now.
>
> One more question, I want to overlay the terrain map, instead of colormap
> with wrf_contour. This is the example that NCL provided:
> https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/Scripts/conOncon_9.ncl, Is this the
> only method we can use for overlaying terrain map with wrf_contour? any
> other functions can do this type overlay easier?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ying
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Adam Phillips <asphilli@ucar.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ying,
>> You can try setting one of the *DrawOrder* resources:
>> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/draworder.shtml
>>
>> Specifically, I would try setting cnLineDrawOrder = "PostDraw" in the
>> wrf_contour resource list.
>> Hope that helps. If not, please respond to the ncl-talk email list.
>> Adam
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Ying Song <ysong4@slu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have a question about overlay the color filled map with wrf_contour. I
>>> plot cloud top temperature from WRF outputs and overlay with map using
>>> functions: wrf_contour
>>>
>>> & wrf_map_overlays.
>>>
>>> Now I want to fill in map with different colors (gray for land, blue for
>>> ocean) as background. I use the mp resources:
>>> mpres@mpFillOn = True
>>> mpres@mpFillColors =
>>> (/"background","LightBlue","LightGray","transparent"/)
>>>
>>> However, the cloud top temperature is covered, the plot only shows the
>>> map with color. Is there other resources I can use to overlay these two and
>>> show the wrf_contour results above map?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Ying
>>>
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Received on Fri Jun 20 06:48:56 2014