RE: [ncl-talk] Area fill the northern provinces of Canada

Thanks for the help Adam but I've found a new problem. I'm trying to make
contour plot with the Canadian North shaded. I can produce the map fine
until I add the contour fill. Is there a way to have the shaded land area
show up through a filled contour plot?

Thanks for the help,
Alex

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Phillips [mailto:asphilli_at_cgd.ucar.edu]
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 3:40 PM
To: Alex Gardner
Cc: ncl-talk_at_ucar.edu
Subject: Re: Area fill the northern provinces of Canada

Hi Alex,

To add a single color to your working colormap use NhlNewColor:
http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/NhlNewColor.shtml

and to use a gray set each numerical input to the same value between 0
and 1.0. for example: newcolor = NhlNewColor(wks,.75,.75,.75)
The closer to 1.0 you get the lighter the gray.

To select specific areas to fill is a bit more complicated. I took a bit
from a few examples found on the maps only Applications page:
http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/maponly.shtml

and I attached it and the corresponding plot here. Basically I outline
every Canadian area (by setting mpOutlineSpecifiers), but only gray fill
the Northwest Territories (by setting mpFillAreaSpecifiers and
mpSpecifiedFillColors).

Let us know if you have any questions about what I did...
Adam

Alex Gardner wrote:
> Does any one know how to area fill (any color) the northern provinces of
> Canada when using a color table which does not include gray?
>
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