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Download the icons for this session from the link below. Create a sub-directory called training inside your Metview home directory, $HOME/metview, and save the .tar.gz file there. Then, from Metview, navigate to this folder and right-click on the tar.gz icon; choose Extract to uncompress the files into their folder. Work from there. The main instructions are written for participants of the Data analysis and visualisation using Metview training course at ECMWF. Any files to be copied from the file system will also be downloadable from this page.

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Creating and Editing an Icon

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Now when you apply this icon you will see that the palette is fixed wherever you zoom. There will probably be parts of the plot which are not filled; this is because our range of contour levels does not cover the whole range of values in the data. Change the list of contour levels so that the whole plot will be covered - you only need to add one number to each end of the level list to do this (or else change the current numbers at the ends of the list).

Updating the Macro

Edit your macro icon again and drop the fixed_t icon into the editor, aiming the drop so that the code is generated above the plot() command. The code to generate the contouring specification will appear, assigned to the variable fixed_t (the variable is always named after the icon that was dropped). Add this to the end of the plot command:

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