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Display user specified contour levels in GrADS


colorbar sample I would like to know how to display specific contour levels on the colorbar. For example, as shown in the schematic above taken from pivotalweather, shows a colorbar for precipitation values that are not really equally spaced. I would like to know how to achieve a similar result with GrADS.

PS: I use the cbarn.gs and the xcbar.gs script sometimes.


Solution

  • You need to use the original color set of GRADS for this.

    THREE steps:

    1). Set the color using the 'set rgb # R G B'. You need the RGB of the colors in your color bar. Since there are 15 default colors in GrADS, you should start the # at 16.

    Check this link for details of the colors: http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gadoc/colorcontrol.html

    2). You need to set the color level as follows:

     set clevs 0.01 0.05 0.1 0.02 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2 
     2.5 3 3.5 4 5 6 8 15
    

    3). You need to specify the colors based on your defined RGBs.

     set ccols 16, 17, 18,....etc.