[gradsusr] vertical colorbar on 8 panel plot

[Jeffrey Duda]

What I do when I make such plots is to set the plot area to some very small
box near the corner of the virtual page, set the display variables that I
used to make the panels (I assume you used the same clevs and ccols for
each), display any variable (doesn't have to be the same one you displayed
in the panels), then draw a filled rectangle with the same color as that of
the background to cover up the few markings that will appear (if you set
parea right, this won't cover up any of the panels), then run the cbar
script normally (might want to adjust the arguments for where the center of
the bar is placed) and it should come up how you want).  I've attached an
example image and the relevant code.

*Resetting the page to draw the colorbar.  Need to do some tricks to get it
to work the way I want it to, though.
'set parea off'
'set parea 10.99 11 8.49 8.5'
'set clevs 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100'
'set ccols 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31'
'set grads off'
'set gxout shaded'
'd u.1'
'run ......cbar.gs'
'set line 0'
'draw recf 10.5 8.25 11 8.5'

Hope this helps.

Jeff Duda

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 2:23 PM, SMITH, JONATHAN WYNN. (GSFC-6133) <
jonathan.smith at nasa.gov> wrote:

> Grads help
> I want to generate one vertical (y-axis - oriented) colorbar for the entire
> 8 panel plot that is attached.
> I have attached a script that generates it the 8 panel plot and my attempt
> at the vertical colorbar.  The script shows where I have attempted to use
> xcbar.  I have been unsuccessful with it.  Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Jonathan
>
>
> Jonathan Wynn Smith
> Student Trainee
> jonathan.smith at nasa.gov
> NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
> Code 613.3 - Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Branch
> Greenbelt, MD 20771
> 301-614-5956
>
> Doctoral Candidate
> jonathan.smith at bison.howard.edu
> Howard University Program in Atmospheric Sciences
> Washington, DC 20059
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Jeff Duda
Iowa State University
Meteorology Graduate Student
www.meteor.iastate.edu/~jdduda <http://www.meteor.iastate.edu/%7Ejdduda>
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