<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Sep 20, 2013, at 3:47 PM, Andrew Friedman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Sytske,<br><br>In your script you have 2 plot settings right after each other:<br><br>'set gxout grfill'<br>'set gxout shaded'<br><br>I believe the second one overrides the first. Try commenting it out to see what the grfill plot looks like.<br></div></blockquote><div>That's right -- grfill will give a better view of actual grid box size. What does 'q ctlinfo' give you after you invoke sdfopen? </div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>Also, you could try changing the shaded plot setting to the higher-resoluttion algorithm:<br>'set gxout shade2b'<br></div></blockquote><div>shade2b is not higher resolution -- it has more smaller polygons and takes longer to render. shade2 and shade2b should look exactly the same. </div><div><br></div>--Jennifer</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>Andrew<br><br>On Sep 20, 2013, at 12:23 PM, Sytske Kimball <<a href="mailto:skimball@southalabama.edu">skimball@southalabama.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Dear GrADS users,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I (finally) managed to plot a NEXRAD radar reflectivity fil, in netCDF format, using GrADS. The plot is attached (IdaRadar-test.png) as is the original radar image for the same area, displayed using GRLevelII (RadarLevel2.png). I can't figure out why the resolution on the GrADS image is so much worse than on the original image. The script is also attached.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Any help would be much appreciated.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thank you in advance,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Sytske<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Sytske (seets-kah) Kimball<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Professor of Meteorology<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Director, South Alabama Mesonet<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Dept. of Earth Sciences<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">University of South Alabama<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Mobile, AL<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">phone (251) 460-7031<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">fax (251) 460-7886<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">email <a href="mailto:skimball@southalabama.edu">skimball@southalabama.edu</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">web: <a href="http://chiliweb.southalabama.edu/">http://chiliweb.southalabama.edu/</a> <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><RadarLevel2.png><IdaRadar-test.png><StationPlot+radar2.gs>_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">gradsusr mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr">http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr</a><br></blockquote><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br><a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br>http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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