<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21228"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21229">Hi NCL users. </span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21230"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21231">I am trying to plot the TRMM 2A12 V7 data which is ORBITAL data in the HDF4 format. </span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21230"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21298">This has hydrometeor profiles upto 18km in atmosphere and these are not available directly. </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21232"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21233">I am attaching the documentation for 2A12 . </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21234"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21235">I am unable to extract the hydrometeors at different levels from this data. </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21236"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21237"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21238">The Pg 118 of the file filespec.TRMM.V7.pdf decribes that two arrays have to be multiplied in order to get a profile. I get error like this.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21414"> byte clusterNumber ( nscan, npixel, nspecies )</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21415"> hdf_name :<span style="white-space:pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21416"> </span>clusterNumber</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21417"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21418"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21419"> float clusterScale ( nscan, npixel, nspecies )</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21420"> hdf_name :<span style="white-space:pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21421"> </span>clusterScale</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21422"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21423"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21424"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21425"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21426">Variable: CLUSTER</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21427">Type: float</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21428">Total Size: 5200 bytes</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21429"> 1300 values</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21430">Number of Dimensions: 2</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21431">Dimensions and sizes:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21432"> </span>[ncluster | 100] x [nfindex | 13]</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21433">Coordinates: </div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21434">Number Of Attributes: 1</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21435"> hdf_name :<span style="white-space:pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21436"> </span>cluster</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21437">(0)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21438"> </span> </div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21439">(0)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21440"> </span>min=0 max=0.835986</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21441"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21442"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21443">Variable: clus_scale</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21444">Type: float</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21445">Total Size: 2428608 bytes</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21446"> 607152 values</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21447">Number of Dimensions: 2</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21448">Dimensions and sizes:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21449"> </span>[nscan | 2919] x [npixel | 208]</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21450">Coordinates: </div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21451">Number Of Attributes: 4</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21452"> _FillValue :<span style="white-space:pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21453"> </span>-9999.9</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21454"> lat2d :<span style="white-space:pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21455"> </span><ARRAY of 607152 elements></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21456"> lon2d :<span style="white-space:pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21457"> </span><ARRAY of 607152 elements></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21458"> hdf_name :<span style="white-space:pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21459"> </span>clusterScale</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21460">(0)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21461"> </span> </div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21462">(0)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21463"> </span>min=0.005 max=1.873</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21464">fatal:Mul: Dimension size, for dimension number 0, of operands does not match, can't continue</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21465"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21466"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21467">fatal:["Execute.c":8578]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 96 in file 2A12.20090929.67632.7.HDF.surfpptn.ncl</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21468"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21469"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21470">aditya@agniilap:~/geeta/ncl/ReadHDF-2A12-U-V7$ </div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21238"> </div><div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21207"> </div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460887017674_21206">Geeta.</div></div></body></html>