Re: automatically setting contour levels centered at zero

From: Mary Haley <haley_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Wed Oct 19 2011 - 14:25:07 MDT

If it helps, here's an NCL function that mimics "nice_mnmxintvl". You might be able to modify it to do what you need.

--Mary

On Oct 19, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Mary Haley wrote:

> Cathy,
>
> We don't have an automatic way to do this, but I think you could get close if you use nice_mnmxintvl using the absolute max of both the min/max of your data as your end points, and then adjust the values if you have a 0 value.
>
> Here's an example, which you might need to adjust for your needs:
>
> tmin = -15.5
> tmax = 14.0
> m = nice_mnmxintvl(tmin,tmax,10,False)
>
> ;---testspan is an *unadvertised* routine that we don't support.
> values = testspan(m(0),m(1),m(2))
> print("tmin/tmax = " + tmin + "/" + tmax)
> print("min/max/step = " + m(0) + "/" + m(1) + "/" + m(2))
> print("original values = " + values)
>
> if(any(values.eq.0)) then
> print("'values' contains '0'")
> ;---Adjust values to remove the 0 value.
> dx = values(1)-values(0)
> new_values = values(ind(values.ne.0))
> new_values = where(new_values.lt.0,new_values+dx/2.,new_values-dx/2.)
> else
> new_values = values
> end if
> print("new values = " + new_values)
>
> Results:
>
> (0) tmin/tmax = -15.5/14
> (0) min/max/step = -12/12/4
> (0) original values = -12
> (1) original values = -8
> (2) original values = -4
> (3) original values = 0
> (4) original values = 4
> (5) original values = 8
> (6) original values = 12
> (0) 'values' contains '0'
> (0) new values = -10
> (1) new values = -6
> (2) new values = -2
> (3) new values = 2
> (4) new values = 6
> (5) new values = 10
>
>
> --Mary
>
>
> On Oct 17, 2011, at 4:28 PM, Cathy Smith wrote:
>
>>
>> NCL users:
>>
>> My goal is to have NCL automatically set contour intervals for anomaly or correlation plots that satisfy these 3 goals
>>
>> 1) They need to be symmetric about zero.
>> 2) The contour levels need to be "nice".
>> 3) There needs to be an even number of contour levels so that the center interval between levels straddles zero.
>>
>>
>> What I want is to have anomaly or correlation plots with a single zero centered contour interval (which I will color white). I am familiar with
>> symMinMaxPlt but it didn't do exactly as I wanted as it had a contour level at zero as opposed to one centered around zero.
>>
>> I am open to have the middle contour range be wider than the rest (say, -.5,-4,-.3,-.2,-.1,.1,.2,.3,.4,.5). I would really like to avoid having
>> to determine the optimum number nice contour intervals myself.
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>>
>> Cathy Smith
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