{"id":9946,"date":"2015-05-04T14:32:59","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T19:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hwt.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/internal\/blog\/?p=9946"},"modified":"2015-05-04T14:32:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T19:32:59","slug":"changing-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2015\/05\/04\/changing-colors\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Colors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As always, the first order of business when you&#8217;re working at a new office or AWIPS system &#8211; build build build! Currently working on procedures and my personal favorite, custom color tables. If I was thinking ahead I would&#8217;ve brought some from home.<\/p>\n<p>One of the color tables I always change: CAPE. The default &#8220;gridded data&#8221; color table that AWIPS loves so much just doesn&#8217;t fit well.<\/p>\n<p>Before: <a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/CAPE_before.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9966\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/CAPE_before-1024x514.png\" alt=\"CAPE_before\" width=\"584\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/CAPE_before-1024x514.png 1024w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/CAPE_before-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/CAPE_before-768x386.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/CAPE_before-500x251.png 500w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/CAPE_before.png 1701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That magenta really stands out, as if I really care about areas of zero CAPE.<\/p>\n<p>After:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/CAPE_after.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9967\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/CAPE_after-1024x514.png\" alt=\"CAPE_after\" width=\"584\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/CAPE_after-1024x514.png 1024w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/CAPE_after-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/CAPE_after-768x386.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/CAPE_after-500x251.png 500w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/05\/CAPE_after.png 1701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Much better! I did something similar for the Lifted Index: making everything above about 2C transparent.<\/p>\n<p>Now back to the real fun: convection blowing up in my CWA Du Jour (Midland, TX) and clearing AlertViz banner after AlertViz banner.<br \/>\n-V. Darkbloom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As always, the first order of business when you&#8217;re working at a new office or AWIPS system &#8211; build build build! Currently working on procedures and my personal favorite, custom&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2015\/05\/04\/changing-colors\/\" 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":[],"class_list":["post-9946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9946","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=9946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}