<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi George,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Are you positive that the "time" dimensions on both files are the same length? The error message is indicating otherwise.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">You first call this:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">
<p class="p1"><font face="monospace, monospace"> TIME = <span class="s1">a-></span>time</font></p><p class="p1">and then later:</p><p class="p1">
</p><p class="p1"><font face="monospace, monospace"> TIME = b->time</font></p><p class="p1">and the error is telling you that you are trying to assign some values to the "TIME" array, which already exists, but with an array of a different size.</p><p class="p1">You can force TIME to be a new array, by using the reassignment operator:</p><p class="p1"><font face="monospace, monospace">TIME := b->time</font></p><p class="p1">However, you should become familiar with your data before you start reading and plotting it. We always recommend that you use the "printVarSummary" procedure to look at your data. You could do something like this, just for debugging purposes:</p><p class="p1"><font face="monospace, monospace">printVarSummary(a->TIME) ; Compare the output; are these two<br>printVarSummary(b->TIME) ; arrays the same length?</font></p><p class="p1">Also, as a side, I noticed you are also calling this:</p><p class="p1"></p><p class="p1"><font face="monospace, monospace"> time = a->time ; (time) ==> YYMM<br> ntim = dimsizes(time)</font></p><p class="p1"><font face="monospace, monospace">...</font></p><p class="p1"></p><p class="p1"><font face="monospace, monospace"> time = b->time ; (time) ==> YYMM<br></font><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"> ntim = dimsizes(time)</span></p><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><br></font></div><p class="p1">There's really no need to read the "time" arrays in twice. You can use the original TIME array to get the size:</p><p class="p1"><font face="monospace, monospace"> ntim = dimsizes(TIME)</font></p><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">--Mary</font></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 9:36 AM, george luke otieno <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gotieno2000@gmail.com" target="_blank">gotieno2000@gmail.com</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>Dear All</div><div><br></div><div>I want to plot two variables <strong>precip</strong> and <strong>precip1</strong> from GPCP and GPCC, i see some cases in the ncl scripts where resources are set for each variable(Precip and Precip1) ,must i set resources for each variable. I am trying to use same resources for the variable but am being told</div><div><br></div><div>"....Dimension sizes of left hand side and right hand side of assignment do not match..." especially for reading GPCP data section...at line 54<br></div><div><br></div><div>yet the datasets have same dimension</div><div><br></div><div>attached below is my script<br clear="all"></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br><br><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Best Regards<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">George Otieno</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Intergrated Climate System Modelling Lab.<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Department of Environmental Atmospheric Sciences<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">608-737, Room 4302, Chungmu-Building</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Pukyong National University,<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">45,Yongso-ro,Nam-gu, Busan, South Korea<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Tel. <a href="tel:%2B82-51-629-6643" value="+82516296643" target="_blank">+82-51-629-6643</a><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Fax<a href="tel:%2B82-51-629-7991" value="+82516297991" target="_blank">+82-51-629-7991</a></span><b><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></span></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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