In the Houdini colorbar HDA under "color options", set the menus like this...


Details:

png file /svs/share/houdini/cbars/images/png/SSMI_Water_Vapor_Over_Oceans_Descending.png
tex file /svs/share/houdini/cbars/images/tex/SSMI_Water_Vapor_Over_Oceans_Descending.tex
definition /svs/share/houdini/cbars/definitions/gibs/SSMI_Water_Vapor_Over_Oceans_Descending.xml
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reference https://gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov/colormaps/v1.0/