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Try the following if you have time.
Experiment with different backgrounds
Modify the Coastlines icon, for example:
- plot the US state boundaries
- try different land or sea shading colours
- change the frequency of the grid lines
Ensuring the title has the correct date and time
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- this procedure will be covered in Customising Your Plot Title
- if you have a fieldset variable called
msl_grib, the following line will extract the date at which the field is valid:msl_date = grib_get_long(msl_grib, 'validityDate')
- we can do something similar for the validity time
- these are extracted as integer numbers, but can be combined into a proper date variable in Macro:
full_date = date(msl_date) + hour(msl_time)
- use the
string()function to construct a date string similar to the one used in the current title- see String Functions for details of how to use it
- insert this into the
mtext()function instead of the current title - it is now more robust - if you use data from a different date or time, the title will still be correct
- note that this method will not work directly if you want to generate an animation from different time steps of data
Experiment with different backgrounds
Modify the Coastlines icon, for example:
- plot the US state boundaries
- try different land or sea shading colours
- change the frequency of the grid lines