<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the feedback. I've been doing something similar to Adam's loop to fill in the gaps. I'll have to think more about how linmsg would work with it. Seems like it might weight things more towards the values on the edges of the gaps, but I'm not sure.<div><br></div><div>But yes, ideally runave would have a flag in it similar to what linmsg to let the user decide how many missing values is too many.</div><div><br></div><div> Thanks!</div><div> Carl</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Dennis Shea <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shea@ucar.edu" target="_blank">shea@ucar.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Well, of course a function (possibly even 'runave', 'runave_n') could be modified to do this, However, that could cause some issues. Let 'nave=51' ... All sequences with 51 consecutive values would yield a result that had consistent filter characteristics. Lets say that there is a sequence with only one value ... Would you want that to be returned ... mixed with all other 'smoothed' values?<br></div><div><br></div><div>If the number of missing points is 'small' I would suggest that <br> <a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/linmsg_n.shtml" target="_blank">https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/linmsg_n.shtml</a><br></div><div>be used to preprocess the series prior to performing the runave_n script.<br></div><div>Note that this has an option that will only operate a user specified max length of missing values.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>D<br></div><div><br></div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Adam Phillips <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:asphilli@ucar.edu" target="_blank">asphilli@ucar.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Carl/Maria,<br></div>This a not a terribly clean solution, but when I need to do that type of averaging I use the dim_avg* functions which happily ignore the data with _FillValue's and will average over whatever data is there. The negative to doing this is that you need to call dim_avg multiple times within a do loop:<br><br>ssttemp = sst_t<br>ssttemp = ssttemp@_FillValue<br>do qq = 1,dimsizes(sst_t&time)-3 ; calculate 4-mo running average<br> ssttemp(:,:,qq) = dim_avg(sst_t(:,:,qq-1:qq+2)) ; missing data allowed<br>end do<br></div>delete(sst_t)<br><div><br></div><div>All that being said, I agree that a version of runave that allows _FillValue data would be useful.. Adam<br></div><div><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Maria Gehne - NOAA Affiliate <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maria.gehne@noaa.gov" target="_blank">maria.gehne@noaa.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Carl,<div><br></div><div>I don't have a solution for you, but I would definitely be interested in a function that does that.</div><div><br></div><div>Maria</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Carl Schreck <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cjschrec@ncsu.edu" target="_blank">cjschrec@ncsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Is there a version of runave that will average all nonmissing values? In the current version, if there is even one missing value within a window, the average is set to missing.<div><br></div><div>For example:</div><div><div>ncl 0> x = ispan( 1, 15, 1 )</div><div>ncl 1> x@_FillValue = -99</div><div>ncl 2> x(8) = x@_FillValue</div><div>ncl 3> y = runave( x, 5, 1 )</div><div>ncl 4> print( x + " " + y )</div><div>(0)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>1 2.2</div><div>(1)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>2 2.4</div><div>(2)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>3 3</div><div>(3)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>4 4</div><div>(4)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>5 5</div><div>(5)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>6 6</div><div>(6)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>7 -99</div><div>(7)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>8 -99</div><div>(8)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>-99 -99</div><div>(9)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>10 -99</div><div>(10)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>11 -99</div><div>(11)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>12 12</div><div>(12)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>13 13</div><div>(13)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>14 13.6</div><div>(14)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>15 13.8</div><div><br></div><div>What I'd like to have happen is something like:</div><div><div>(0)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>1 2.2</div><div>(1)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>2 2.4</div><div>(2)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>3 3</div><div>(3)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>4 4</div><div>(4)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>5 5</div><div>(5)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>6 6</div><div>(6)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>7 6.5 < = = ( 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 ) / 4</div><div>(7)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>8 7.75 < = = ( 6 + 7 + 8 + 10 ) / 4</div><div>(8)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>-99 9 < = = ( 7 + 8 + 10 + 11 ) / 4</div><div>(9)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>10 10.25 < = = ( 8 + 10 + 11 + 12 ) / 4</div><div>(10)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>11 11.5 < = = ( 10 + 11 + 12 + 13 ) / 4</div><div>(11)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>12 12</div><div>(12)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>13 13</div><div>(13)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>14 13.6</div><div>(14)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>15 13.8</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><br><table style="max-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px;border:3px solid rgb(170,170,170);font-family:Times;line-height:12px;background-color:transparent" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"><tbody><tr><td align="center" width="71" height="71"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.cicsnc.org/" style="color:rgb(38,58,143);text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.cicsnc.org/assets/images/cicsnc-logo.png" width="96" height="93"></a> <a href="http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-8711-2011" target="_blank"><br></a></span></span><br><font size="4"><b style="text-align:start;color:rgb(38,58,143);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> <a href="http://www.cyclonecenter.org/" style="color:rgb(38,58,143);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Cyclone</a></b><a href="http://www.cyclonecenter.org/" style="text-align:start;color:rgb(38,58,143);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Center.org</a> </font></td><td valign="top"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Carl J. 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