DKRZ NCL panel example#

DKRZ NCL script:

;---------------------------------------------------------------
; DKRZ - NCL Example:   NCL_panel.ncl
;
; Description:  draw a panel plot -  3 rows x 2 columns
;
; 01.07.2015  kmf
;---------------------------------------------------------------
load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl"
load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_csm.ncl"

begin
;-- generate an ny x nx array of random data
  nx    =  100
  ny    =  100
  data  =  generate_2d_array(15,15,240.,310.,0,(/ny,nx/))

;-- generate 1D lat/lon coord arrays and attach to data
  lat            =  fspan(-90,90,ny)
  lon            =  fspan(-180,180,nx)
  data!0         = "lat"
  data!1         = "lon"
  data&lat       =  lat
  data&lon       =  lon
  data&lat@units = "degrees_north"
  data&lon@units = "degrees_east"

;-- fill areas
  fill_specs = (/"water","land"/)

;-- mask areas
  mask_specs = (/\
  "algeria","angola","angola-exclave-called-cabinda","benin","botswana",\
  "burundi","cameroon","central-african-republic","chad","congo","djibouti",\
  "egypt","equatorial-guinea","ethiopia","gabon","gambia","ghana","guinea",\
  "guinea-bissau","ivory-coast","kenya","lesotho","liberia","libya",\
  "madagascar","malawi","mali","mauritania","mauritius","morocco",\
  "mozambique","namibia","niger","nigeria","rwanda","senegal","sierra-leone",\
  "somalia","south-africa","sudan","swaziland","tanzania","togo","tunisia",\
  "uganda","upper-volta","western-sahara","zaire","zambia","zimbabwe"/)

  color_map = (/(/1.00,1.00,1.00/),(/0.00,0.00,0.00/),(/0.70,0.70,0.70/), \
                (/0.75,0.50,1.00/),(/0.50,0.00,1.00/),(/0.00,0.00,1.00/), \
                (/0.00,0.50,1.00/),(/0.00,1.00,1.00/),(/0.00,1.00,0.60/), \
                (/0.00,1.00,0.00/),(/0.70,1.00,0.00/),(/1.00,1.00,0.00/), \
                (/1.00,0.75,0.00/),(/1.00,0.38,0.38/),(/1.00,0.00,0.38/), \
                (/1.00,0.00,0.00/)/)

;-- open a workstation
  wks = gsn_open_wks("png","plot_panel")
  gsn_define_colormap(wks,color_map)

;-- set resources
  res                       =  True
  res@gsnDraw               =  False
  res@gsnFrame              =  False
  res@gsnMaximize           =  True
  res@gsnAddCyclic          =  False

  res@cnFillColors          =  (/3,4,5,6,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15/)
  res@cnFillOn              =  True
  res@cnFillDrawOrder       = "Predraw"
  res@cnLineDrawOrder       = "Predraw"
  res@cnHighLabelsOn        =  False
  res@cnInfoLabelOn         =  False
  res@cnLineLabelsOn        =  False
  res@cnLowLabelsOn         =  False

  res@mpProjection          = "Orthographic"
  res@mpEllipticalBoundary  =  True
  res@mpCenterLatF          =  10.0
  res@mpCenterLonF          = -95.0
  res@mpGridAndLimbOn       =  True
  res@mpGridSpacingF        =  10
  res@mpGridLineColor       =  2
  res@mpGridLineThicknessF  =  1.1
  res@mpGridMaskMode        = "MaskLand"              ;-- don't draw grid over land
  res@mpLandFillColor       =  2                      ;-- gray

  res@lbLabelBarOn          =  False                  ;-- turn off individual cb's

  plot = new(6,graphic)                               ;-- assign graphic array

;-- plot 0
  plot(0) = gsn_csm_contour_map(wks,data,res)

;-- plot 1
  res@mpCenterLatF          =  25.0
  res@mpCenterLonF          =  16.0

  plot(1) = gsn_csm_contour_map(wks,data,res)

;-- plot 2
  res@mpFillBoundarySets    = "NoBoundaries"
  res@mpAreaMaskingOn       =  1
  res@mpMaskAreaSpecifiers  =  mask_specs
  res@mpFillAreaSpecifiers  =  fill_specs

  plot(2) = gsn_csm_contour_map(wks,data,res)

;-- plot 3
  res@cnFillDrawOrder       = "PostDraw"
  res@cnLineDrawOrder       = "PostDraw"

  plot(3) = gsn_csm_contour_map(wks,data,res)

;-- plot 4
  res@cnFillDrawOrder       = "Draw"
  res@cnLineDrawOrder       = "Draw"

  plot(4) = gsn_csm_contour_map(wks,data,res)

;-- plot 5
  res@cnFillDrawOrder       = "PreDraw"
  res@cnLineDrawOrder       = "PreDraw"
  res@mpSpecifiedFillColors =  (/7,2/)

  plot(5) = gsn_csm_contour_map(wks,data,res)

;-- panel resources
  pres                      =  True
  pres@gsnPanelCenter       =  True
  pres@gsnPanelScalePlotIndex = 1
  pres@gsnPanelLabelBar     = True              ;-- add common colorbar

  pres@lbLabelFontHeightF   = 0.01              ;-- make labels smaller
  pres@lbOrientation        = "Vertical"
  pres@lbBoxCount           =  14
  pres@lbLabelFont          = "Helvetica-bold"
  pres@lbLabelAlignment     = "BoxCenters"
  pres@lbLabelStrings       =  (/"Ocean","Land","< 0","0-10","10-20","20-30", \
                                 "30-40","40-50","50-60","60-70","70-80",     \
                                 "80-90","90-100","> 100"/)
  pres@lbFillColors         =  (/7,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15/)

  pres@pmLabelBarOrthogonalPosF  =  0.02           ;-- move labelbar to the right

  pres@txString             = "PreDraw, Draw, PostDraw, Mask"

;-- draw the panel
  gsn_panel(wks,plot,(/3,2/),pres)

end

Result:

../../../../../../_images/plot_panel_w400.png