<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">You are reading lat and lon off *all* files, which I don't think is what you want.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">If your lat/lon are the same across all files, then instead of doing this:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default"> lat = f[:]->lat</div><div class="gmail_default"> lon = f[:]->lon</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Try this:</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"> lat = f[0]->lat</div><div class="gmail_default"> lon = f[0]->lon</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">This will read lat/lon off the first file in the list. </div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Really, though, since you are reading u and v, and since they have lat/lon coordinate arrays attached to them, you can just use those, instead of reading lat/lon separately. For example:</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"> wind_dir&lat = u&lat</div><div class="gmail_default"> wind_dir&lon = u&lon</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">--Mary</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Amadou Coulibaly <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mpapin24@gmail.com" target="_blank">mpapin24@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 class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;font-size:large">Dear NCL users,<br><br></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><br>fatal:Coordinate variables must be the same dimension as their dimension<br>fatal:No coordinate variable exists for dimension (lat) in variable (wind_dir)<br>fatal:["Execute.c":8578]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 59 in file monthly_lsb_test2.ncl<br><br></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><font size="2">Variable: lon<br>Type: float<br>Total Size: 15840 bytes<br> 3960 values<br>Number of Dimensions: 1<br>Dimensions and sizes: [lon | 3960]<br>Coordinates: <br> lon: [-5.. 5]<br>Number Of Attributes: 4<br> name : lon<br> long_name : longitude<br> units : degree_east<br> valid_range : ( -5, 5 )<br><br>Variable: lat<br>Type: float<br>Total Size: 9120 bytes<br> 2280 values<br>Number of Dimensions: 1<br>Dimensions and sizes: [lat | 2280]<br>Coordinates: <br> lat: [8.8985..3.2784]<br>Number Of Attributes: 4<br> name : lat<br> long_name : latitude<br> units : degree_north<br> valid_range : ( 3.2784, 8.8985 )<br><br>Variable: u<br>Type: float<br>Total Size: 36636864 bytes<br> 9159216 values<br>Number of Dimensions: 3<br>Dimensions and sizes: [time | 14608] x [lat | 19] x [lon | 33]<br>Coordinates: <br> time: [ 1..87643]<br> lat: [8.8985..3.2784]<br> lon: [-5.. 5]<br>Number Of Attributes: 5<br> standard_name : eastward_wind<br> product_description : 1-hour Forecast<br> units : m s-1<br> level : Specified height above ground - value: 10 m<br> _FillValue : 3.4e+38</font><br><br></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"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">[lat | 2280], [lon | 3960]</span>, but in u I have <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">[time | 14608] x [lat | 19] x [lon | 33]</span>.<br><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><font size="4">What is wrong with my code? 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