Drawing a Boundary Around a Model Domain

[Matt Georgescu]

This example should help:
http://cep.rutgers.edu/~matt1/totprecip_july1995simul_12.gif

Although the above is a precip map (and I want to do this for a
topography map, precip, etc.) ... around the Pacific Ocean, parts of the
Gulf of Mexico, etc., there is such little precip that <10 mm blends in
with the background, and the model domain is not directly visible.

I want to keep the contours as is and just add a dark(er) outline around
the domain's edge, to signify exactly the extent of the domain's
boundaries.

thanks to everyone that replied,
matt


On Mon, 9 May 2005, Sestak, Dr. Michael wrote:

> You should get your outline from
>
> set frame on
>
> This should be the default so I don't know why you don't have a frame
> already.  Could be that something has set it's color to the background
> color.  I believe the color and thickness of the frame are set by
>
> set annot color thickness
>
> where color is a number from 1 to 15 for the standard grads colors and
> thickness is an optional value to set the line thickness.  If you want it
> black on a white background, then it would be
>
> set annot 0
>
> If for some reason this does not work, you can simply draw a rectangle
>
> draw rec xlo ylo xhi yhi
>
> You should be able to get the corners of your plot area (for xlo, ylo, xhi,
> yhi) using
>
> q w2xy lon lat     (although it may be lat lon)
>
> where lon and lat are the longitude and latitude of each corner of your map
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Georgescu [mailto:matt1 at CEP.RUTGERS.EDU]
> Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 7:01 AM
> To: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT
> Subject: Drawing a Boundary Around a Model Domain
>
>
> Hi - I will re-phrase my initial question in hope that it may be more
> understandable...
>
> I have a domain, from model output.
>
> I simply want to draw, in black or any color for that matter, a line
> around the model's boundary.
>
> Does someone have a script for this?
>
> thanks,
> matt
>

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