<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Hi GrADS users,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I was wondering if anyone knows how to plot a map with gray fill, and then overlay fields over the gray map? When I run my GrADS script, the gray map appears briefly and then disappears completely and I am left with only the plotted fields and no map. I've tried placing the "basemap" lines in multiple places, but nothing seems to work. Are the order of steps in my script incorrect?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">For example, in my script I have:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">
<p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font-family:Monaco;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'set display color white'</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font-family:Monaco;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'c'</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font-family:Monaco;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'set grads off'</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font-family:Monaco;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'set grid off'</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font-family:Monaco;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'set mpdraw off'</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Monaco;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;min-height:17px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font-family:Monaco;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'open gfs.ctl'</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font-family:Monaco;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font:13px Monaco;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'set mpdset hires'</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font:13px Monaco;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'set mproj latlon'</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font-family:Monaco;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">
</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font-family:Monaco;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'set frame on'</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font-family:Monaco;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font:13px Monaco;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'set lat 20 55'</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font-family:Monaco;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">
</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font-family:Monaco;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'set lon -130 -60'</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font-family:Monaco;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font:13px Monaco;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'set gxout contour'</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font:13px Monaco;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'set clevs 0'</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font:13px Monaco;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'set ccolor 0'</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font-family:Monaco;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">
</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font-family:Monaco;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'d MSLETmsl'</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font-family:Monaco;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font:13px Monaco;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'! cp /directory/with/asc/files/*.asc .'</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font:13px Monaco;margin:0px;min-height:17px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font:13px Monaco;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'set rgb 17 220 220 220'</span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font:13px Monaco;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'basemap L 17 17 L'</span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font:13px Monaco;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'set rgb 16 180 180 220'</span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font:13px Monaco;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'basemap O 0 0 L'</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font:13px Monaco;margin:0px">
</p><p class="gmail-p2" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font-family:Monaco;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'printim bg.png'</span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font:13px Monaco;margin:0px;min-height:17px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font:13px Monaco;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'c'</span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font:13px Monaco;margin:0px;min-height:17px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font:13px Monaco;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'set gxout shaded'</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font:13px Monaco;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'set lev 500'</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font:13px Monaco;margin:0px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'d abs(ABSVprs*(10*10*10*10*10))'</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font:13px Monaco;margin:0px;min-height:17px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font:13px Monaco;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'set gxout contour'</span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font:13px Monaco;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'set lev 500'</span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font:13px Monaco;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'set cint 60'</span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font:13px Monaco;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'set ccolor 1'</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;color:rgb(46,174,187)"> </span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font:13px Monaco;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'set clab off'</span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font:13px Monaco;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'set cthick 1'</span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font:13px Monaco;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'set cstyle 1'</span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font:13px Monaco;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'set csmooth on'</span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font:13px Monaco;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'set ccolor 1'</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font-family:Monaco;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">
</span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font-family:Monaco;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'d HGTprs'</span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font-family:Monaco;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font-family:Monaco;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">
</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font-family:Monaco;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">'printim test.png -b bg.png -t 0'</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font-family:Monaco;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(193,101,28);font-family:Monaco;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="" color="#000000">Thanks in advance for any advice,</font></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="" color="#000000">Tracey</font></span></p></div></div>