<div dir="ltr">William,<div>See if this gets you close enough:</div><div><br></div><div>'set lat 10 70'</div><div>'set lon -170 -50'</div><div>'set mpvals -120 -76 20 58'</div><div>'set mproj nps'</div>
<div><br></div><div>I know it's stereo polar, but I think it looks less distorted than if you stick with the original projection you showed. I assume you were using the projection used by the NAM. Good luck--</div><div>
<br></div><div>Stephen</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_144750eb3b811e7e" alt="Inline image 1" width="428" height="333"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 3:27 PM, L.B. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bcbass2989@gmail.com" target="_blank">bcbass2989@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hmmm, yeah I got frustrated trying to do the same. It seems you must use a polar stereographic projection to use mpvals - which I didnt particularly care for. Maybe this is something that can be fixed with the next version of GrADS. Somehow redo the drawing system, or allow you to crop.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><div class=""><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><b>William (L.B.) LaForce</b><div>Meteorologist</div><div>Central Michigan University '13<br></div><div><a href="http://www.tornadoinsanity.com" target="_blank">www.tornadoinsanity.com</a></div>
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<br><br></div><div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Jeff Duda <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeffduda319@gmail.com" target="_blank">jeffduda319@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">L.B.,<br>I agree with Stephen's suggestions. I have played around with the mpvals function to make my own forecast graphics. An example is on my forecast graphics page (<a href="http://www.meteor.iastate.edu/~jdduda/forecast/loop_NAM_CONUS.htm?param=full_500mb&cycle=18Z" target="_blank">http://www.meteor.iastate.edu/~jdduda/forecast/loop_NAM_CONUS.htm?param=full_500mb&cycle=18Z</a>). Unfortunately, I do not know the projections well enough to know exactly what values to use to get the entire domain in the frame. I got frustrated and gave up after getting the best look, which is being used to make the graphics in the link. Maybe you'll have better luck than me.<br>
<br>Jeff<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:16 PM, L.B. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bcbass2989@gmail.com" target="_blank">bcbass2989@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I will take a look at the mpvals. I know you can zoom in by reducing the lat/lon pairs - guess I should have said I want that full domain plotted :P</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Stephen McMillan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:smcmillan@planalytics.com" target="_blank">smcmillan@planalytics.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">William,<div>You can "zoom in" by reducing the lat and lon ranges before you display the variable. Also, try using 'set mpvals...' (see <a href="http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradcomdsetmpvals.html" target="_blank">http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradcomdsetmpvals.html</a>) to specify which areas you wanted included in the plot.</div>
<div>Stephen Mc</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:42 PM, L.B. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bcbass2989@gmail.com" target="_blank">bcbass2989@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr">Hello all,<div><br></div><div>I have been having an issue of trying to fill the entire plot area. Usually the extra white space is used for text and such, but in my case I want to fill the entire plot area (or most of it) and get rid of as much white space as possible. I have played around with various values for vpage and parea as well as the image size output (so it is NOT distorted), and it just seems to re-scale the image, and not let me fill the entire area. Ideally it would be nice to set your parea>vpage, but that's not possible. I have posted an example image below. I made the background black to show you all the excess space. Now obviously the image is not rectangular, and I have cropped the left and the right side, but how can I get rid of that excess on the top and bottom without using an external utility to crop it after the fact?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><b>William (L.B.) LaForce</b><div>Meteorologist</div><div>Central Michigan University '13<br></div><div><a href="http://www.tornadoinsanity.com" target="_blank">www.tornadoinsanity.com</a></div>
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