{"id":9781,"date":"2014-06-05T15:13:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T20:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hwt.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/internal\/blog\/?p=9781"},"modified":"2016-10-03T17:54:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T22:54:00","slug":"pglm-colormap-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2014\/06\/05\/pglm-colormap-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"pGLM colormap (comparison)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the MCS moves towards the Northern Alabama LMA, I thought it was a good time to compare colormaps and get feedback from each of the forecasters.<\/p>\n<p>I added the following image to the large screen of the situational awareness display within the HWT and asked each forecaster which colormap they preferred &#8211; the one on the bottom left or the one on the bottom right.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9782\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9782\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/06\/pglm_lja_1944utc.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9782\" alt=\"top left:  200 km2 LJA over MRMS lowest refl.  Top right: 600 km2 LJA over refl at -10 C.  Bottom left: PGLM flash extent density (colormap 1).  Bottom Right: PGLM flash extent density (colormap 2)\" src=\"http:\/\/hwt.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/internal\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pglm_lja_1944utc-1024x543.png\" width=\"584\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9782\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">top left: 200 km2 LJA over MRMS lowest refl. Top right: 600 km2 LJA over refl at -10 C. Bottom left: PGLM flash extent density (colormap 1). Bottom Right: PGLM flash extent density (colormap 2)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All forecasters this week preferred the colormap on the bottom left except for one specific case:\u00a0 when they want to overlay the data on radar.\u00a0 For that particular occurance, the bottom left is a bit to similar to the radar. However, all agreed that on its own or overlaid on satellite the colormap on the bottom left is much preferred. (note: the colormap on the bottom right is the default colormap for AWIPS2).<\/p>\n<p>-K. Calhoun<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the MCS moves towards the Northern Alabama LMA, I thought it was a good time to compare colormaps and get feedback from each of the forecasters. I added the&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2014\/06\/05\/pglm-colormap-comparison\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,38],"class_list":["post-9781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-pglm","tag-total-lightning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781","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\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13950,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781\/revisions\/13950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}