>
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way in NCL to overlay two 2D fields in a contour plot (let's say
> the 1st field in solid lines and the second in dashed lines) and have a
> legend at the top showing 2 items, one for each field?
>
> All I could get is a legend showing all the line levels of the fields.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Christian Page
> page AT sca.uqam.ca http://meteocentre.com/
Christian,
There are a couple of ways you can do this, and I'll give you an
example of one of them. I wrote a little procedure that creates and
draws a legend (gsn_legend_ndc), and added it to gsn_code.ncl, so you
will need to download the latest version of gsn_code.ncl (more on this
in a bit).
The example below is uses data that is all on the same lat/lon grid,
so by using coordinate arrays provided in the netCDF file, it knows
how to do the overlay properly. (This is all done behind the scenes in
the gsn_csm_contour routine.)
This example basically creates two separate contour plots, overlays
one on the other, draws the overlaid plots, and then draws a legend on
top.
If you want to draw the legend *inside* the plot area, then you can do
all of this by using gsn_add_polyline and gsn_add_text. This will then
allow you to panel the plots.
To run the example below, first download the latest gsn_code.ncl
and gsn_csm.ncl from:
http://ngwww.ucar.edu/ngdoc/ng/ug/ncl/gsun/scripts/gsn_code.ncl
http://ngwww.ucar.edu/ngdoc/ng/ug/ncl/gsun/scripts/gsn_csm.ncl
Here's the example:
load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl"
load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_csm.ncl"
begin
diri = "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/data/cdf/" ; directory
fili = "contour.cdf" ; file name
f = addfile (diri+fili , "r") ; add file
T1 = f->T(0,0,:,:) ; get 1st time and level
T5 = f->T(4,0,:,:) ; get 5th time and level
wks = gsn_open_wks ("x11", "legend" ) ; open workstation
res = True
res@vpYF = 0.85
res@gsnDraw = False
res@gsnFrame = False
res@cnLineColor = "Red" ; red contour lines
res@cnLineDashPattern = 0 ; solid lines
plot1 = gsn_csm_contour(wks, T1, res )
res@cnLineColor = "Blue" ; blue contour lines
res@cnLineDashPattern = 12 ; dashed lines
res@cnLineThicknessF = 2.
res@gsnRightString = ""
res@gsnLeftString = ""
res@gsnCenterString = ""
plot5 = gsn_csm_contour(wks, T5, res )
overlay(plot1,plot5) ; Overlay plots; plot1 now
; contains the overlaid plot5.
draw(plot1) ; Draw base plot.
;
; Set some legend resources.
;
lgres = True
lgres@lgLineColors = (/"red","blue"/) ; line colors for legend lines
lgres@vpWidthF = 0.8 ; width of legend (NDC)
lgres@vpHeightF = 0.1 ; height of legend (NDC)
lgres@lgPerimOn = False ; turn off perimeter
lgres@lgDashIndexes = (/0,12/) ; dash indexes
lgres@lgLineLabelStrings = (/"",""/) ; no labels in lines
;
; Draw the legend, indicating the number of items, a label for each
; item, and the X, Y position of the legend in NDC coordinates.
;
gsn_legend_ndc(wks,2,(/"time=0","time=4"/),0.1,0.15,lgres)
frame(wks)
end
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