[ncl-talk] Issue with masking data with shapefile

Rick Brownrigg brownrig at ucar.edu
Mon Aug 1 09:46:28 MDT 2016


Hi Amit,

The way you have it written, i.e., "./shapefile_utils.ncl", says that the
file should be in your "current directory", whatever and where ever that
may be.  Is it indeed in the same directory as you are running your script
from?  It needs only read-permissions by you.

Rick


On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 1:13 AM, Amit Kumar <amitkumar.777 at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi All,
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> I'm using NCL 6.1.2 in this i'm trying to mask my data to my shapefile ,
> in order to do so i'm trying to load shapefile_utils.ncl as *fatal:Could
> not open (./shapefile_utils.ncl) *. I've downloaded this file from ncl
> site but Where to keep this file and with what permissions.
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> how to load this file in ncl as if i'm not loading this file then i get
> the error shapefile_mask_data () is undefined.
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> I want to plot data only on my shapefile and mask rest of it.
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> *load "/usr/share/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl" load
> "/usr/share/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_csm.ncl" load
> "/usr/share/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/contributed.ncl" load
> "./shapefile_utils.ncl" begin  a                 =
> addfile("/home/amit/Research/3DIMG/Utrakhand_01JUL2016/h5/output/output/3DIMG_30JUN2016_0000_L3B_HEM_DLY_UK.nc","r")
>     filename = "/media/amit/E/India_shapefile/Districtbound(Satmet).shp"
> var                 = doubletofloat(a->HEM_DLY(0,:,:))   lat
>  =  a->latitude   lon                 =  a->longitude   wks =
> gsn_open_wks("png","mask")                ; send graphics to PNG file
> res                      = True                  ; plot mods desired
> res at cnFillOn             = True                  ; turn on color fill
> res at cnLinesOn            = False   res at gsnMaximize          = True     ;
> maximize plot in frame   res at gsnDraw              = False
> res at gsnFrame             = False   res at mpOutlineOn   = False   ; Use
> outlines from shapefile   res at mpFillOn      = False
> res at cnLevelSelectionMode = "ExplicitLevels"
> res at cnLevels             =
> (/0.1,2.5,15.5,64.5,115.5,204.5,400.5,600.5,800.5/) ;   ; 13 contour values
>   res at cnFillPalette        = (/"Snow","LightGoldenRodYellow","Yellow"\ ; 13
> contour colors                               ,"Orange","Green","Green4"
> \                               ,"Cyan","Blue2","Blue3","Blue4"/)
> res at tiMainString      = "HEM_DLY_30JUN2016 Maximum :761.31 mm"
> res at tiMainFontHeightF = 0.016   res at gsnAddCyclic      = False
> res at lbOrientation   = "Vertical"   res at sfXArray             = lon
> res at sfYArray        =  lat   res at mpMinLonF             = 78.0
> res at mpMaxLonF             = 81.0   res at mpMinLatF             = 29.0
> res at mpMaxLatF             = 31.0 res at pmTickMarkDisplayMode     = "Always"
> res at tiXAxisString            = "Longitude" res at tiYAxisString            =
> "Lattitude" res at tiXAxisFontHeightF         = 0.02 res at tiYAxisFontHeightF
>      = 0.02 res at gsnStringFontHeightF     = 0.005   plot =
> gsn_csm_contour_map(wks,var, res)        ; create plot   opt             =
> True   opt at return_mask = True   shp_mask =
> shapefile_mask_data(var,filename,opt) var_shp_mask =
> where(shp_mask.eq.1,var,var at _FillValue) copy_VarMeta(var,var_shp_mask)
> ;---For shapefile plot, use the shapefile outlines.   res at mpOutlineOn  =
> False ;---Create plot of original data masked by shapefile outlines
> res at tiMainString = "Original data masked by shapefile outlines"
> var_shp_plot = gsn_csm_contour_map(wks,var_shp_mask,res)   dum =
> gsn_add_shapefile_polylines(wks,var_shp_plot,filename,False)  draw(plot)
>  frame(wks)  end*
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> Regards
> Amit Kumar,
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