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[GEMPAK #NUB-700940]: suominet color scales

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  • Subject: [GEMPAK #NUB-700940]: suominet color scales
  • Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:25:05 -0600
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to recreate some GOES+Suominet animations with gempak.
> Can someone specify the color scale that is used to overlay suominet
> pwv on top of the GOES-IR4 images. As an example:
> 
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/data/suominet/loop/loop2/suomi_ani_zoom.html
> 
> Within NMAP2, this is specified as the pwv_color data source.
> 
> Thanks,
> -John
> 
> 


John,

The pwv_color configuration is defined in $GEMTBL/config/prmlst.tbl
and can be used within SFMAP for a script to generate frames for
an animation such as:
SFFILE   = suomi
SFPARM   = PWV_COLOR
COLORS   =
FILTER   =
CLRBAR   = 1
GEMPAK-SFMAP>

This would then duplicate the color ranges seen in NMAP2,

The SFFILE = suomi and SFPARM=PWV_COLOR allow SFMAP to load in the COLORS and 
FILTER settings from
the prmlst.tbl file, so you don't want to override themin the SFMAP invocation, 
eg they
are left blank above.

Otherwise, you could simply set whatever colors, data range you want in line, 
such as:
SFPARM = PWVM
COLORS=(3-48-3/14-30//U)

You can also color code one parameter using another for data ranges as well, or
simply plot color coded markers- where the marker was colored accoring to PWVM 
like:
SFPARM = mark:1
COLORS=(3-48-3/14-30/PWVM/U)

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support





Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: NUB-700940
Department: Support GEMPAK
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed