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NCL Graphics: Phased contours

These examples demonstrate the how to plot data that is "phased" or cyclic.
phase_1.ncl: This example shows one method for drawing a "phased" contour plot such that it doesn't draw a bunch of contour lines at the point where the data is cyclic.

This method creates a contour plot of the upper two-thirds of the data, and the bottom two-thirds of the data with the maximum values set to -1. This prevents the banding at the cyclic point. The overlay procedure is then used to overlay the two plots.