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+This folder contains all the NCL colormaps as `.rgb` files.
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+It also contains the notebook `ncl_into_mpl.ipynb`.
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+The notebook can download the `.rgb` files from the NCL website.
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+The point of the notebook is to show how to get these files and convert them to Matplotlib colormaps.
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