Re: retrieve named colors

Hi James,

You should use cnLineColors
http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/Resources/cn.shtml#cnFillColors

See the example below that explicitly assigns color levels for each contour.
http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/Scripts/conLev_3.ncl

saji

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 4:35 AM, James Correia <jimmyc42@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi-
> I am trying to use the existing colors in my colormap to color specific
> contours in my contour plot. How do I assign the value for col(q) in the
> example below? Or should I be using the gsnSpreadColorStart (and End) to use
> the different colors individually for each specific contour?
>
> colors=(/"white","black","white","blue"/)
>   gsn_merge_colormaps(wks,colors,"radar")
>
> res@cnLineColor = col(q)
>
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