Re: Is there a way to have area filled continents show through a filled contour plot?

Hi Alex,

Unfortunatley, no, there isn't. The best alternative is to use Fill
Patterns to shade either the contours or the continents. Your best bet
is to probably use fill pattern #17 to fill the continents.

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/Resources/mp.shtml#mpFillPattern

res_at_mpFillPattern = 17

You can then change the scaling of the pattern by setting mpFillScaleF

Good luck,
Adam

Alex Gardner wrote:
> I'm wondering if it is possible to make filled contour plots semitransparent
> such that filled continents can show through without covering the contour
> fill.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ncl-talk-bounces_at_ucar.edu [mailto:ncl-talk-bounces_at_ucar.edu] On Behalf
> Of Mary Haley
> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 8:54 AM
> To: Michael Toews
> Cc: ncl-talk_at_ucar.edu
> Subject: Re: NCL & UDUNITS on Cygwin
>
>
> I responded to this message personally, but I wanted to respond here.
>
> The reason the Cygwin version of NCL doesn't contain the Udunits
> functions is because in the past I was unable to get the Udunits
> library to build under Cygwin.
>
> It sounds like maybe the Udunits/Cygwin support is there, so I'll take
> a look and try to get a version of NCL on Cygwin that has the Udunits
> functions.
>
> --Mary
>
>
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Michael Toews wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>I'm curious why the UDUNITS-related functions do not work on the NCL build
>
>
>>(Version 4.2.0.a033) for Cygwin/X? When I try the ut_calendar example, I
>
> get:
>
>>fatal:Undefined identifier: (ut_calendar) is undefined, can't continue
>>fatal:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 3
>>
>>UDUNITS can compile just fine under Cygwin/X (contrary to what many
>
> documents
>
>>say), and the library works for ncview. The trick to compiling UDUNITS is
>
> to
>
>>first painfully compile f2c (instructions here
>>http://www.seanet.com/~bradbell/f2cAD/f2cinstall_frame1.htm ) then
>
> configure,
>
>>compile and install UDUNITS like this:
>>./configure CC=gcc CFLAGS=-Df2cFortran
>>make
>>make install
>>
>>I'm guessing that NCL for Cygwin/X was compiled without the UDUNITS
>
> library,
>
>>but I'm not sure why this is necessary. Is there any way to turn UDUNITS
>>support for NCL on?
>>Thanks.
>>+mt
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