Re: fill in map color, overlay with wrf_contour plot

From: Mary Haley <haley_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Tue Jun 24 2014 - 12:20:05 MDT

Regarding WRF overlays, there's an example on our shapefiles page. See
shapefiles_14.ncl:

https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/shapefiles.shtml#ex14

--Mary


On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Adam Phillips <asphilli@ucar.edu> wrote:

> 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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