Re: [ferret_users] Overlaying basemap with "fill"-ed field

[Ansley Manke <ansley.b.manke@xxxxxxxx>]

Adding to Lev's response, remember that the open-ended levels can make 
these kinds of plots look nice without having to set a bunch of colors 
at the high and low ends:
http://www.ferret.noaa.gov/Ferret/Documentation/Release_Notes/v581.html#open 
levels

If you want the smoothness of a FILL plot with the complete coverage of 
a SHADE plot, sometimes the best result is to overlay a FILL on top of a 
SHADE of the same field.


Lev Tarasov wrote:

> I often do this by simply overlaying the field on shaded topography:
>
> eg
> shade /nolab/nokey /pal=Psealand/LEVEL= "(-5000,5000,5000)" topo
> shade/nolab/over your_field
>
> where "topo" could eg be the field rose from etopo60
>
> with
> Psealand.spk:
> -------------------
> RGB_Mapping By_level
>
> ! Level    Red  Green   Blue
>       1   40.0    70.0  100.0
>       2   40.0   100.0  30.0
> -------------------------------
>
> cheers
>
> Lev Tarasov -   Dept of Physics, University of Toronto,
>                 60 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA, M5S 1A7
>                 Tel (519)-821-3555  Fax (416)-978-8905
>                 email: lev.tarasoff@utoronto.ca
>         http://www.atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca/people/lev/lev.html
>
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Gary Strand wrote:
>
> > I've been asked to make a nifty animation and rather than using just 
> > plain old black-line continents, showing the underlying topography 
> > (using "fland") would look nicer. However, I can't seem to get it to 
> > work properly.
> >
> > How do I get a basemap + filled data to look good?
> >
> > Gary Strand
> > strandwg@ucar.edu
> > http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/ccr/strandwg
> > Skype: wgstrand