Re: geo_borders

[Steve Hankin <hankin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Andrew,

See also

    yes? go/help land

The land.jnl script which can automate political boundary overlays.  For example,

     yes? use coads_climatology
     yes? fill/l=1 sst
     yes? GO land thick overlay black red

(image attached).

    - steve

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Andrew Wittenberg wrote:

> On Wed, 23 May 2001, Steve Knox wrote:
> > I need to overlay country/state borders on a contour plot. In searching the
> > archives, I found a reference to the sample datasets directory (a file named
> > "geo_border.cdf"). I looked but could not any thing re borders.
> > Does anyone know where I can find this or an equivalent one?
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> The file is $FER_DIR/go/geo_borders.cdf.  If it's there, then in Ferret
> try this:
>
> yes? use geo_borders
> yes? go basemap
> yes? plot/ov/vs/line country_lon,country_lat
> yes? plot/ov/vs/line state_lon,state_lat
>
> Good luck,
>
> Andrew
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Andrew Wittenberg          Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
> andyw@splash.princeton.edu                        Princeton University
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