[gradsusr] Grads either messes up my data or distorts it

[Duarte Filipe Pires do Rosario Costa]

Yeey, it works Bill!

Thanks a lot!

Duarte

On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:22:55 -0400, Bill Bua <Bill.Bua at noaa.gov> wrote:
> Duarte --
> 
> If you, at the command line,
> 
> ga> set vrange y1 y2
> 
> where y1 is the lower bound you want and y2 is the upper bound.
> 
> that should take care of having the same axes for both variable plots, I

> believe.
> 
> See http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/gadocindex.html and go to letter 
> "V" at the top.  It'll be the fifth item under the letter "V" in the 
> left-hand html frame.
> 
> Bill
> 
> On 8/11/2011 6:02 PM, Duarte Filipe Pires do Rosario Costa wrote:
>> Attached is the (distorted) plot that shows what I explained.
>>
>> I set yaxis 0 5 0.5
>> d tas
>> d tas.2
>>
>> and that's the result.
>>
>> What do you think I could do?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Duarte
>>
>> On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:02:37 -0500, Jeffrey Duda<jdduda at iastate.edu>
>> wrote:
>>> I'm not totally sure I understand the exact problem you're having.
>> Could
>>> you send a graphical example of this?
>>>
>>> Jeff Duda
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Duarte Filipe Pires do Rosario Costa<
>>> dc220 at sussex.ac.uk>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to display in Grads two datasets together that have a
>>>> slightly
>>>> different range of values. The problem is that Grads overlays two y
>>>> scales
>>>> to display both (I wonder to whom such messy plot is useful for...).
>>>>
>>>> I tried changing the yaxis by using set yaxis and set ylevs and it
>> works
>>>> well for the scale. The big problem is that Grads then DISTORTS one
of
>>>> the
>>>> datasets to make the variability within it be more visible. At the
end,
>>>> instead of having a messy unreadable plot (as in the first case) and
>> get
>>>> a
>>>> DISTORTED biased plot (This must be the least useful thing to whoever
>> is
>>>> using Grads...!)
>>>>
>>>> Can someone help me displaying both datasets together in one plot
>> without
>>>> messy or distorted results?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Duarte
>>>>
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Duarte Costa

MSc Climate Change and Policy