I want to use the "fill" command to make a Hovmoller plot over the
course of the year for a climatological variable. By default, ferret
doesn't interpolate over the end-of-year break, leaving white space
for the first half of January and the last half of December when using
monthly data. This doesn't look great for a published figure. Is
there a good way to ensure that data is plotted there?
One thing that I tried was to define the timespan and the hlimit to
get ferret to plot that time of the year as well (e.g.
fill/lin/key/t=1-dec-1599:1-feb-1601/hl=1-jan-1600:1-jan-1601
t_ref[d=1,x=@ave]). This fixes my first problem, but introduces a new
one: all latitudes where the color of the plot doesn't change over the
course of the year are plotted white. I assume the problem is because
the left and right "edges" of the data are outside of the plot, but
I'm not sure how to fix it. I've attached a figure to show what I
mean. The plot on the left is default ferret behavior. The plot on
the right is my attempt to fix it, but with the horizontal white bands.
Is there a better way to do what I'm trying to do?
Michael