<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="">Hey Guilherme,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(1) The character “\” should work. I’ve used it several time to split in multiple lines the definition of a long array, e.g.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">qr(0,:)=(/avg(ps_3j_w->qr), avg(ps_3j_wm20->qr), avg(ps_3j_wm30->qr), <b class="">\</b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> avg(ps_3j_wm40->qr), avg(ps_3j_wm50->qr), avg(ps_3j_wm60->qr) /)</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Are you trying to do something similar? If you get an error maybe it’s because of the keyboard that has a different ASCII code for that character? I don’t know, just guessing…</div><div class="">Doing that</div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">res@tiMainString = "Anomalia de altura geopotencial \</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> em 500hPa - Fevereiro/1979”</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">should produce the same result in the title of the plot.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(2) Normally, no. But it depends on how you define it. If you have a variable with metadata and you just do an assignment to the same variable name, you won’t lose metadata. As an example </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class="">wm2_to_mmh=rho_w*lv*1/(3600*1000)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class="">lhflx(0,:)=(/avg(ts_3j_w->lhflx) ,avg(ts_3j_wm20->lhflx) ,avg(ts_3j_wm30->lhflx), \</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class=""> avg(ts_3j_wm40->lhflx) ,avg(ts_3j_wm50->lhflx) ,avg(ts_3j_wm60->lhflx)/)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class="">lhflx@longname="Mean Latent Heat Flux"</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class="">lhflx@units="mm/h”</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><b class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class="">lhflx=lhflx/(-wm2_to_mmh) </font></b></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class="">printVarSummary(lhflx)</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">will produce </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class="">Variable: lhflx</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class="">Type: double</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class="">Total Size: 96 bytes</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class=""> 12 values</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class="">Number of Dimensions: 2</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class="">Dimensions and sizes:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>[2] x [6]</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class="">Coordinates:</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class="">Number Of Attributes: 3</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class=""> units :<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>mm/h</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class=""> longname :<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Mean Latent Heat Flux</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class=""> _FillValue :<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>9.969209968386869e+36</font></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you move the line <font face="Menlo" class="">lhflx=lhflx/(-wm2_to_mmh)</font> before the assignment of metadata (longname, units) you will get the same printout. <b class="">However</b>, if you define the algebraic operation at the same time as the assignment you will lose metadata. That is, </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class="">lhflx(0,:)=(/avg(ts_3j_w->lhflx) ,avg(ts_3j_wm20->lhflx) ,avg(ts_3j_wm30->lhflx), \</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class=""> avg(ts_3j_wm40->lhflx) ,avg(ts_3j_wm50->lhflx) ,avg(ts_3j_wm60->lhflx) /)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class="">lhflx@longname="Mean Latent Heat Flux"</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class="">lhflx@units="mm/h”</font></div></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><b class="">lhflx2</b>=lhflx/(-wm2_to_mmh) </font></div><div style="font-weight: bold;" class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class="">printVarSummary(lhflx2)</font></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class="">would produce </div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class="">Variable: lhflx2</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class="">Type: double</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class="">Total Size: 96 bytes</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class=""> 12 values</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class="">Number of Dimensions: 2</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class="">Dimensions and sizes:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>[2] x [6]</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class="">Coordinates:</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class="">Number Of Attributes: 1</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 11px;" class=""> _FillValue :<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>9.969209968386869e+36</font></div><div style="font-weight: bold;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As you can see, type is the same (so the attribute _FillValue is preserved) but there are no longname and units metadata anymore.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hope this helps.</div><div class="">Cheers </div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Il giorno 29 mag 2016, alle ore 19:50, Guilherme Martins <<a href="mailto:jgmsantos@gmail.com" class="">jgmsantos@gmail.com</a>> ha scritto:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Hi users,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">How do I break a line in the NCL? I do not want the effect caused by the </div><div class="">"~C~" but want to break the line within the script. I have a limit to write in that line.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For example, that line is very long in my script and I want to break the line:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">res@tiMainString = "Anomalia de altura geopotencial em 500hPa - Fevereiro/1979"<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I tryed to use the "\", but does not work.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Another issue I would like to understand why when we multiply any variable by a constant, this variable loses its metadata? I searched but I did not found anything.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you.</div></div><div dir="ltr" class="">-- <br class=""></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><div class="">------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="">Dr. Guilherme Martins</div><div class="">Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)<br class=""></div></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class="">Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos (CPTEC)<br class=""></font>Grupo de Desenvolvimento em Assimilação de Dados (GDAD)<font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="">Telefone (INPE/CP): +55 12 3186-8551 || Celular (TIM): +55 12 98152-8580<br class="">E-mail: <a href="mailto:guilherme.martins@inpe.br" class="">guilherme.martins@inpe.br</a> || <a href="mailto:jgmsantos@gmail.com" class="">jgmsantos@gmail.com</a><br class="">Skype: guilherme.martins.<br class="">Homepage: <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/jgmsantos" class="">https://sites.google.com/site/jgmsantos</a><br class="">Currículo Lattes: <a href="http://lattes.cnpq.br/5997657584785803" class="">http://lattes.cnpq.br/5997657584785803</a><span class=""><br class=""></span>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div></div>
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