| Re: contour boundaries [message #25492] |
Thu, 21 June 2001 14:05 |
Med Bennett
Messages: 109
Registered: April 1997
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Remy Luerssen wrote:
> I am having troubles with a contouring program in IDL. I have gridded in situ
> measurements taken from stations throughout the Gulf of Maine. I am contouring
> the data over a map of the Gulf of Maine. In order to take into consideration
> where the land is, the gridded in situ data was changed to NaN where there was
> land. The problem that I am having is that the contouring program is not
> recognizing the boundaries of the dataset. There are contouring lines going
> through the land, eventhough the data its self are NaNs. But the kicker is
> that there is a data boundary that does not border the coast (the stations end
> but not due to land construct) that is recognized. The contour lines stop
> like they should. Any ideas what is going on?
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> I would appreciate any suggestions!
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> Thanks,
>
> Remy
Hi Remy,
Is your coastline concave towards land? You may have to use the MIN_VALUE keyword
- I usually force areas that I don't want contoured as 0, or -999, or something
else that is below the data range, and use the min_value = 0 keyword. I don't know
if using NaNs really works or would work wth the min_value keyword.
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