Re: contour smoothing

Hi Dave,
I would highly recommend using smth9_Wrap to smooth your data before
plotting. This allows you to have complete control over the amount of
smoothing (heavy, light, pass the data through the function a few
times), as opposed to trying to mess with the cnSmoothingTension resource.
http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Contributed/smth9_Wrap.shtml
Adam

David B. Reusch wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a long-time-working script that uses gsn_csm_contour_map_polar to
> produce panelled plots of Antarctic meteo data and I've been wanting to
> experiment with tweaking the contouring so that basically I get a
> "smoother" look (for example, get rid of any really small areas that
> aren't particularly representative of the larger picture). Rather than
> approaching this by changing the cmin/cmax/cint values (which might also
> work, I think), I've been trying to use the cnSmoothingOn and
> cnSmoothingTensionF resources. The reason I'm writing is that these
> don't appear to be doing anything! I've tried a wide range of tension
> values with no resulting plot changes. All I've done to the script is
> add these two resources -- am I missing something else I need to get
> this to work? I didn't see any examples that address these particular
> resources (though I know there can't be examples for everything).
>
> I can provide the script/data if needed (I didn't attach the script
> because it's *long* and ugly). Or if someone has an example, that would
> be great. Also, if the prevailing wisdom is to use cmin/cmax/cint to
> accomplish such smoothing, that would be really nice to know too!
>
> This is NCL 5.1.1 on Mac 10.5.8.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave Reusch
>

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