<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi Michele,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The quick answer is that in NCL V6.4.0 there's some code that still expects tfDoNDCOverlay to just be set to True or False, so instead of:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">res@tfDoNDCOverlay = "DataTransform"</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">use:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">res@tfDoNDCOverlay = False</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">This resource is False by default, however, so you can also just not set it at all.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">In the future, please post NCL questions to ncl-talk and not ncarg-talk. The ncarg-talk talk list is for people working with the old NCAR Graphics libraries, and there's not much activity on this email list. You will need to subscribe:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-talk">http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-talk</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Regards,</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">--Mary</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 3:21 PM, Michele Petrini - CITG <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:M.Petrini@tudelft.nl" target="_blank">M.Petrini@tudelft.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>I am trying to plot Greenland ice thickness (from CISM model) contour over a map, but I get an error I never had before - so far, I plotted ice thickness contours using outputs from different ice sheet models with no problems. Below you can find
the code </div>
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<div><font color="#3a88fe">begin </font></div>
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<div><font color="#3a88fe">in = "./data/"</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">out = "./results/"</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">H_filename = "<a href="http://ice_thickness.nc" target="_blank">ice_thickness.nc</a>"</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">H_file = addfile(in+H_filename,"r")</font></div>
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</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">H = H_file->thk</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">time_sim = ispan(0,16100,100)</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">ny = dimsizes(H&y1)</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">nx = dimsizes(H&x1)</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">ntime = dimsizes(time_sim)</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">H@_FillValue = -999.</font></div>
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</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">H = mask(H,H.lt..1,False)</font></div>
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</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">lat1 = fspan(58.25,84.61,ny)</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">lat1@units = "degrees_north"</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">lat1!0 = "lat"</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">lat1@long_name = "latitude"</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">lat1@standard_name = "latitude"</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">lat1@axis = "Y"</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">print(lat1)</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">lon1 = fspan(-95.68,13.33,nx)</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">lon1@units = "degrees_east"</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">lon1!0 = "lon"</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">lon1@long_name = "longitude"</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">lon1@standard_name = "longitude"</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">lon1@axis = "X"</font></div>
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</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">H!1 = "lat"</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">H!2 = "lon"</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">H&lat = lat1</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">H&lon = lon1</font></div>
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</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">minlat = 58.25</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">maxlat = 84.61</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">minlon = -95.68</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">maxlon = 13.33</font></div>
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</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"> res = True ; plot mods desired</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"> ;res@gsnDraw = False</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"> ;res@gsnFrame = False </font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"> res@cnFillOn = True ; turn on color</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"> res@cnFillMode = "RasterFill"</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"> res@cnLinesOn = False</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"> res@cnLineLabelsOn = False</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"> res@lbLabelBarOn = False ; turn off individual lb's</font></div>
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</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"> res@trGridType = "TriangularMesh"</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"> res@mpProjection = "Stereographic"</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"> res@mpDataBaseVersion = "mediumres"</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"> res@mpFillOn = False ; turn off default land map fill</font></div>
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</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"> res@mpLimitMode = "Corners" </font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"> res@mpLeftCornerLatF = minlat</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"> res@mpLeftCornerLonF = minlon</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"> res@mpRightCornerLatF = maxlat</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"> res@mpRightCornerLonF = maxlon</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"> res@mpCenterLonF = 0</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"> res@mpCenterLatF = 90</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"> res@gsnLeftString = ""</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"> res@gsnRightString = ""</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"> res@cnFillPalette = "testcmap"</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"> res@cnLevelSelectionMode = "ManualLevels" ; set manual contour levels</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"> res@cnMinLevelValF = 0.</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"> res@cnMaxLevelValF = 1.</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"> res@cnLevelSpacingF = 0.2 </font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"> res@tfDoNDCOverlay = "DataTransform"</font></div>
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</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">do i=0,ntime-1</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"><span class="m_5014609120902257700Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"></span>wks = gsn_open_wks("pdf","./results/<wbr>image-"+sprinti("%03i",i))</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"> print("simulation time(" + i + ") = " + time_sim(i))</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"> res@gsnRightString = "Simulation time: " + time_sim(i) + " (yr)"</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"><span class="m_5014609120902257700Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"></span>ice = new((/ny,nx/),double)</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"><span class="m_5014609120902257700Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"></span>ice(:,:) = H(i,:,:)</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"><span class="m_5014609120902257700Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"></span>plot = new(1,graphic)</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"><span class="m_5014609120902257700Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"></span>plot(0) = gsn_csm_contour_map(wks,ice,<wbr>res)</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe"><span class="m_5014609120902257700Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"></span>delete(wks)</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">end do</font></div>
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</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">cmd = "cd ./results/ ; pdflatex movie.tex"</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">system(cmd)</font></div>
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</font></div>
<div><font color="#3a88fe">end </font></div>
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<div>whereas the error I get is the following </div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">fatal:Or: operation not supported on type (string)</span></div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(248,195,36);background-color:rgb(146,146,146)">
<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">fatal:["Execute.c":8640]:<wbr>Execute: Error occurred at or near line 3642 in file /usr/local/ncl-6.4.0/lib/<wbr>ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_csm.<wbr>ncl</span></div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(248,195,36);background-color:rgb(146,146,146);min-height:15px">
<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br>
</div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(248,195,36);background-color:rgb(146,146,146)">
<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">fatal:["Execute.c":8640]:<wbr>Execute: Error occurred at or near line 7985 in file /usr/local/ncl-6.4.0/lib/<wbr>ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_csm.<wbr>ncl</span></div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(248,195,36);background-color:rgb(146,146,146);min-height:15px">
<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(248,195,36);background-color:rgb(146,146,146)">
<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">fatal:["Execute.c":8640]:<wbr>Execute: Error occurred at or near line 11287 in file /usr/local/ncl-6.4.0/lib/<wbr>ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_csm.<wbr>ncl</span></div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(248,195,36);background-color:rgb(146,146,146);min-height:15px">
<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(248,195,36);background-color:rgb(146,146,146)">
<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">fatal:["Execute.c":8640]:<wbr>Execute: Error occurred at or near line 80 in file contour_movie.ncl</span></div>
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<div>I can’t find any suggestion by looking at previous questions and I really don’t understand what the problem can be. </div>
<div>thanks!</div>
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<div>best,</div>
<div>Michele</div>
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PhD in Earth Science and Fluid Mechanics<br>
Department of Geoscience and Remote Sensing, TUDelft<br>
Delft, The Netherlands<br>
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