<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>Hello Amadou,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">it looks like something in the script is preventing the appropriate lon/lat to be paired to u and v.&nbsp;</div><div class="">u has its own lon/lat already, so where are you reading the other lon/lat from? [and do you need to?]</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">best, alessandra</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
<div class="">--&nbsp;<br class="">Alessandra Giannini<br class="">IRI for Climate and Society - The Earth Institute at Columbia University<br class="">P.O. Box 1000, Palisades NY 10964-8000<br class="">phone/fax: +1 845 680-4473/4864 - email:&nbsp;<a href="mailto:alesall@iri.columbia.edu" class="">alesall@iri.columbia.edu</a></div>

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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 4, 2016, at 6:00 PM, Amadou Coulibaly &lt;<a href="mailto:mpapin24@gmail.com" class="">mpapin24@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;font-size:large">Dear NCL users,<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;font-size:large">I am getting some errors messages that I don't understand them. I am using wind speed/direction from CFSR data to do a plot, but below are errors occurring: <br class=""><br class="">fatal:Coordinate variables must be the same dimension as their dimension<br class="">fatal:No coordinate variable exists for dimension (lat) in variable (wind_dir)<br class="">fatal:["Execute.c":8578]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 59 in file monthly_lsb_test2.ncl<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;font-size:large">So I tried to print out lat/lon and u:<br class=""><font size="2" class="">Variable: lon<br class="">Type: float<br class="">Total Size: 15840 bytes<br class="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3960 values<br class="">Number of Dimensions: 1<br class="">Dimensions and sizes:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [lon | 3960]<br class="">Coordinates: <br class="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; lon: [-5.. 5]<br class="">Number Of Attributes: 4<br class="">&nbsp; name :&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; lon<br class="">&nbsp; long_name :&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; longitude<br class="">&nbsp; units :&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; degree_east<br class="">&nbsp; valid_range :&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ( -5,&nbsp; 5 )<br class=""><br class="">Variable: lat<br class="">Type: float<br class="">Total Size: 9120 bytes<br class="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2280 values<br class="">Number of Dimensions: 1<br class="">Dimensions and sizes:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [lat | 2280]<br class="">Coordinates: <br class="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; lat: [8.8985..3.2784]<br class="">Number Of Attributes: 4<br class="">&nbsp; name :&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; lat<br class="">&nbsp; long_name :&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; latitude<br class="">&nbsp; units :&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; degree_north<br class="">&nbsp; valid_range :&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ( 3.2784, 8.8985 )<br class=""><br class="">Variable: u<br class="">Type: float<br class="">Total Size: 36636864 bytes<br class="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 9159216 values<br class="">Number of Dimensions: 3<br class="">Dimensions and sizes:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [time | 14608] x [lat | 19] x [lon | 33]<br class="">Coordinates: <br class="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; time: [ 1..87643]<br class="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; lat: [8.8985..3.2784]<br class="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; lon: [-5.. 5]<br class="">Number Of Attributes: 5<br class="">&nbsp; standard_name :&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; eastward_wind<br class="">&nbsp; product_description :&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1-hour Forecast<br class="">&nbsp; units :&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; m s-1<br class="">&nbsp; level :&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Specified height above ground - value: 10 m<br class="">&nbsp; _FillValue :&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3.4e+38</font><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;font-size:large">I realized that the dimension sizes of lat/lon are different in u. I have <font size="4" class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)" class="">[lat | 2280], [lon | 3960]</span>, but in u I have <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)" class="">[time | 14608] x [lat | 19] x [lon | 33]</span>.<br class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><font size="4" class="">What is wrong with my code? Please find attached my script<br class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><font size="4" class="">Best<br class=""></font></div><br class="">-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><b style="font-size:small;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class=""><font color="#000066" class="">&nbsp;</font><font color="#000066" class="">COULIBALY &nbsp;&nbsp;</font><font color="#000066" class="">AMADOU &nbsp;&nbsp;</font></b><br class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,102);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="">PhD&nbsp; Student &nbsp;on&nbsp; West&nbsp; African&nbsp; Climate&nbsp; System (WACS)</span><br class=""><font style="font-size:small;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" color="#0000ff" class="">FUTA</font><font style="font-size:small;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" color="#000066" class=""> -&nbsp;</fo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