Background topography maps in GRADS

[Kevin M Levey]

THU 07OCT07: 0915PDT

Dear Henrique

Many thanks for getting back to me. The owner of weathernet had responded to
me personally too.

Take care


Regards

Kevin M Levey, MSc (University of Cape Town)
Director of Meteorological Operations
CustomWeather, Inc
San Francisco, CA, USA

http://www.1stweather.com
http://www.myforecast.com
http://www.customweather.com


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> From: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT [mailto:GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT] On
> Behalf Of Henrique Barbosa
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 10:54 AM
> To: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT
> Subject: Re: Background topography maps in GRADS
>
> Kevin,
>
> Their cloud field is not transparent. Look for instance at
> 7E 36N, near Tunisia, its not possible to see the mountains
> under the clouds.
>
> It seems to me that they have drawn the political boundaries
> and cities on top of the cloud field. To get the topography
> underneath, just use the printim command and add an
> layer below (option -b) your plot while generating the gif
> or png. Check all info here:
>
> http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradcomdprintim.html
>
> Hope that helps.
> Henrique
>
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> > Am 20.09.2007 um 19:03 schrieb Kevin M Levey:
> >
> > > THU 20SEP07: 0950PDT
> > >
> > > I came across the following website that which uses GRADS to
> > > produce really
> > > good looking plots:
> > >
> > >
> http://www.weather365.net/component/option,com_wxmap_args_dynamic/
> > > Itemid,117
> > > /lang,en/
> > >
> > > 1] I was wondering about the background topography maps used for
> > > their plots
> > > - is there any documentation on how to do something like this. Is this
> > > merely a topo dataset they are using? If so, where can we get these
> > > topo
> > > data sets to import into GrADS?
> > >
> > > 2] It also looks like from their cloud maps that the clouds are
> > > "transparent" - any ideas how this done or is this merely a clever
> > > use of
> > > colors in their legend?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Kevin M Levey, MSc (University of Cape Town)
> > > Director of Meteorological Operations
> > > CustomWeather, Inc
> > > San Francisco, CA, USA
> > >
> > > http://www.1stweather.com
> > > http://www.myforecast.com
> > > http://www.customweather.com
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