Background topography maps in GRADS

[Frank Bandle]

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Dipl. Met. Frank Bandle
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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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