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CPT Help Home -> Specific Menu Items -> Tools -> Forecasts -> Maps Forecast Maps / Bar ChartsA set of maps can be drawn to illustrate the forecasts for all grids / stations / series for a given forecast time. The forecasts can be displayed either as actual forecast values (or anomalies, or % departures, etc, based on the standarization setting) with prediction intervals, or as probabilities.The maps can be saved as BMP, EMF, GIF, JPEG, PCX, or PNG files by right-clicking anywhere in the child window, and then selecting the desired graphic to be saved from the Export pop-upm menu. A default name is given to the graphic file, but this name can be changed using the browse button. The quality of the JPEG file can be adjusted using the slider or by the quality indicator, which ranges between 0.01 and 1.00. The highest quality is obtained using 1.00. The size of the JPEG file is affected by the quality chosen, with larger files being generated the higher the selected quality. The image quality for all the graphics formats can be improved by increasing the size of the image (see Options ~ Graphics ~ Graph Scaling). The map titles can be reset using the Customise option upon right-clicking in the child window. Similarly the Customise ~ Contour Limits option provides some flexibility to adjust the scaling on the colour bars. A window opens that indicates the assumed maximum and minimum values when setting the scaling and number of colours. These values can be reset, which will in turn automatically reset the colour intervals and number of colours. Greater flexibility for setting the colour levels is planned for future releases. Further options for customizing the maps, including masking lakes or land areas, resetting the size of the fonts and of the image itself, are available from Options ~ Graphics. The forecasts can be saved from the Forecasts tab from File ~ Output Results.
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