<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">It might be useful to develop a raster mode for xy plots. That might reduce the amount size of the output files. <div><br></div><div>-Jonathan</div><div><br><div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 22, 2014, at 3:55 PM, Adam Phillips <<a href="mailto:asphilli@ucar.edu">asphilli@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi Jonathan,<br></div>You can subset the input data array by using index subscripting. Syntax: <br>arr (start_index:end_index:stride)<br></div><div>If you do not indicate an end_index that indicates to NCL to run through the end of the array.<br></div><br></div>for example:<br>arr(0::2) ; select points from the 0th index to the last index with a stride of 2.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Hope that helps.. If not, please respond to ncl-talk.<br>Adam<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 6:08 PM, jbuzan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jbuzan@purdue.edu" target="_blank">jbuzan@purdue.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello NCL-Talk,<br>
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I am attempting a scatter plot, but the ndtooned on a 1°x1° grid (and time series) is too large, and generates a ~500mb plot. Is there a way to reduced the data?<br>
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-Jonathan<br>
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