{"id":10586,"date":"2015-05-11T14:11:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T19:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hwt.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/internal\/blog\/?p=10586"},"modified":"2015-05-11T14:11:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T19:11:21","slug":"default-color-scale-of-gridded-lightning-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2015\/05\/11\/default-color-scale-of-gridded-lightning-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Default color scale of gridded lightning data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The default color scale for gridded lightning data is not very useful&#8230;as it goes all the way to 30,000 flashes. This is pretty unreasonable even for the most electrically active storm. Shown here is the 5 min total lightning data for the ENTLN gridded data at 8 km, 5 km, 3 km, and 1 km using the default color scale (with 30000 as the upper limit) and another image showing a more reasonable color scale (with 300 as the upper limit). Clearly, analysis is far easier using the adjusted color scale as the finer scale details are much easier to see. I also find that interpolating the gridded data makes visualization far easier.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10588\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10588\" style=\"width: 1554px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/ENI-Gridded-default-colorTable.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10588 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/ENI-Gridded-default-colorTable.png\" alt=\"ENI-Gridded-default-colorTable\" width=\"1554\" height=\"902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/ENI-Gridded-default-colorTable.png 1554w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/ENI-Gridded-default-colorTable-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/ENI-Gridded-default-colorTable-768x446.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/ENI-Gridded-default-colorTable-1024x594.png 1024w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/ENI-Gridded-default-colorTable-500x290.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10588\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Default color scale (max at 30000)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10589\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10589\" style=\"width: 1554px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/ENI-Gridded-adjusted-colorTable.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10589 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/ENI-Gridded-adjusted-colorTable.png\" alt=\"ENI-Gridded-adjusted-colorTable\" width=\"1554\" height=\"852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/ENI-Gridded-adjusted-colorTable.png 1554w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/ENI-Gridded-adjusted-colorTable-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/ENI-Gridded-adjusted-colorTable-768x421.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/ENI-Gridded-adjusted-colorTable-1024x561.png 1024w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/ENI-Gridded-adjusted-colorTable-500x274.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10589\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adjusted Color Scale (max at 300)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ertel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The default color scale for gridded lightning data is not very useful&#8230;as it goes all the way to 30,000 flashes. This is pretty unreasonable even for the most electrically active&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2015\/05\/11\/default-color-scale-of-gridded-lightning-data\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}