Re: particle concentration in county level

On Aug 22, 2013, at 12:10 PM, "Luo, Chao" <chao.luo@eas.gatech.edu> wrote:

> Thanks Rick! It works now. by the way, how to check county's name in the map database of NCL?

The names are in the "…names" database files under $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/database. That said, this is not something you really want to have to do -- its not pretty! Nor easy.

Glad things work now..
Rick

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick Brownrigg" <brownrig@ucar.edu>
> To: "Chao Luo" <chao.luo@eas.gatech.edu>
> Cc: "ncl-talk Talk" <ncl-talk@ucar.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 10:47:44 AM
> Subject: Re: particle concentration in county level
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> Hi,
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> Is the greyed county DeKalb by chance? Your list of counties has this as "DeKalb" whereas in the map database its "De Kalb" (i.e., with a space, rightly or wrongly!).
>
> HTH…
> Rick
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> On Aug 22, 2013, at 11:19 AM, "Luo, Chao" <chao.luo@eas.gatech.edu> wrote:
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>> My problem is that one county filled by gray color, which is not correct. I double checked the concentration in that county, which is same as one neighbor county, which filled by correct color. I was wondering if I did something wrong in script, I can't find it. How to test why only this county filled by gray? Any helps are very appreciated!
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Mary Haley" <haley@ucar.edu>
>> To: "Chao Luo" <chao.luo@eas.gatech.edu>
>> Cc: "ncl-talk Talk" <ncl-talk@ucar.edu>
>> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 7:49:55 AM
>> Subject: Re: particle concentration in county level
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>> By default, the land in plot created by any gsn_csm_map plot is going to be filled in Gray.
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>> In your case, you can turn this off by setting:
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>> mpres@mpMaskAreaSpecifiers = "United States"
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>> This will cause the United States area to be masked, but it will still fill the areas you specified with:
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>> mpres@mpSpecifiedFillColors = fill_colors
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>> --Mary
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>> On Aug 21, 2013, at 5:21 PM, Luo, Chao wrote:
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>>> Dear NCL folks,
>>>
>>> I am working on the plot with filling different color by different particle concentration in GA counties. The problem is that one county was filled by background color (gray color). I checked the ncl script i used, and can't find something wrong. I am attaching the plot and script here. Any suggestions or comments are very appreciated!
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