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Need to add contour labels. Should be able to do this by hand,perhaps on every other one. I also think the domainInset position is incorrect in at least one of these.

Does the outer domain geographic region shift southward?

Figure 4. WRF-model analyses for 1500 UTC 25 Mar 2006. (a) FULLTER radar reflectivity [dBZ, color shaded according to scale in (a)], cloud-top temperature (°C, grey shaded according to scale in (b)], and geopotential height (solid contours every 10 m). (b) Same as (a) but for NOSIERRA. (c) FULLTER lowest half-η level potential temperature (every 2 K), wind (vector scale at left), and kinematic frontogenesis [K (100 km h)−1, shaded following scale at left]. (d) Same as (c), but for NOSIERRA. (e) Same as (c), but with diabatic frontogenesis. (f) As in (e) but for NOSIERRA.

Greg-I’ve made some slight adjustments to front/trof positioning here and in subsequent figsShould match Steenburgh et al. (2009)

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