<p dir="ltr">It looks like you're still passing the old time array version. </p>
<p dir="ltr">time_var=cd_string(time_array,format)</p>
<p dir="ltr">printvarsummary doesn't print the actual variable data, the number you see there is how the fillvalue is represented. That all looks good. Edit that above line and you should be golden. <br></p>
<p dir="ltr">Alan. </p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 Nov 2016 11:32 p.m., "Barry Lynn" <<a href="mailto:barry.h.lynn@gmail.com">barry.h.lynn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Alan:<div><br></div><div>Thank you for helping me push this along.</div><div><br></div><div>My variables are already integers</div><div><br></div><div><div>new_time_units = "hours since 1800-01-01 00:00"</div><div>new_time_array = cd_inv_calendar( year(1,1,1), month(1,1,1), day(1,1,1), hour(1,1,1), minute(1,1,1), 0, new_time_units,0)</div><div>print("new_time_array = " + new_time_array)</div><div>format = "" ;; defaults to "%H%M UTC %d %c %Y"</div><div>time_var=cd_string(time_array,<wbr>format)</div><div>print("time_var = " + time_var)</div></div><div><br></div><div>However, I still get the unit error problem. </div><div><br></div><div>Note below, please: new time_array from a print("new_time_array" + new_time_array") produces </div><div><br></div><div><div>(0)<span class="m_-5313993296880618405gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>new_time_array = 1900752.166666667</div><div><br></div><div>but (below), the printVarSummary produces a fill value equivalent to a NaN.</div><div><br></div><div>Here are the print outs.</div><div><br></div><div><div>(0)<span class="m_-5313993296880618405gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>year(1,1,1) = 2016</div><div>(0)<span class="m_-5313993296880618405gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>month(1,1,1) = 11</div><div>(0)<span class="m_-5313993296880618405gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>day(1,1,1) = 2</div><div>(0)<span class="m_-5313993296880618405gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>hour(1,1,1) = 0</div><div>(0)<span class="m_-5313993296880618405gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>new_time_array = 1900752.166666667</div><div><br></div><div>Variable: new_time_array</div><div>Type: double</div><div>Total Size: 8 bytes</div><div> 1 values</div><div>Number of Dimensions: 1</div><div>Dimensions and sizes:<span class="m_-5313993296880618405gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>[1]</div><div>Coordinates: </div><div>Number Of Attributes: 3</div><div> _FillValue :<span class="m_-5313993296880618405gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>9.969209968386869e+36</div><div> calendar :<span class="m_-5313993296880618405gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>standard</div><div> units :<span class="m_-5313993296880618405gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>hours since 1800-01-01 00:00</div><div>(0)<span class="m_-5313993296880618405gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>cd_string: The variable containing time values must have a 'units' attribute.</div><div>fatal:Illegal right-hand side type for assignment</div><div>fatal:["Execute.c":8575]:<wbr>Execute: Error occurred at or near line 130 in file ./obs_light_12km.ncl</div></div></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 10:53 PM, Alan Brammer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abrammer@albany.edu" target="_blank">abrammer@albany.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div>The time variable passed to cd_string() should be in the format of “hours since 1800-01-01 00:00:00” or similar. The format passed to the argument is for the output string not the input variable. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I don’t really understand how you got to the first line of your sample code but trying to build from that is some code below:</div><div><br></div><div> ; time_array(0)=hour(1,1,1)<br> ; time_array(1)=minute(1,1,1)<br> ; time_array(2)=day(1,1,1)<br> ; time_array(3)=month(1,1,1)<br> ; time_array(4)=year(1,1,1)<br><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div> ;; time_array(5)=units ;; are the above strings or numbers? If they’re numbers this line won’t work. </div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><div>;; first make a ut_coord complaint time variable from the arrays of time stuff you already have. </div><div><br></div><div><b>time_array = cd_inv_calendar( toint(year(1,1,1)), toint (month(1,1,1)), toint( day(1,1,1)), toint (hour(1,1,1)), toint (minute(1,1,1)), 0, “hours since 1800-01-01 00:00:00”,0)</b></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><b>printVarSummary(time_array)</b></div><div>;;; Should be a single number of double type with a units attribute. </div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>format = “" ;; defaults to "%H%M UTC %d %c %Y"</b></div></div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><span><b>time_var=cd_string(time_array,<wbr>format)</b></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>p.s. beware of weird quotation marks if copy/pasting from email. </span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Good luck, </span></div><div><span class="m_-5313993296880618405m_1941723079638841122Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Alan</div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><br><div>
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<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="m_-5313993296880618405h5"><div>On 1 Nov 2016, at 06:33, Barry Lynn <<a href="mailto:barry.h.lynn@gmail.com" target="_blank">barry.h.lynn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-5313993296880618405m_1941723079638841122Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><div><div><div class="m_-5313993296880618405h5"><div dir="ltr">Good Morning:<div><br></div><div>I went to this page </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/User_contributed/cd_string.shtml" target="_blank">https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Docum<wbr>ent/Functions/User_contributed<wbr>/cd_string.shtml</a></div><div><br></div><div>and tried to do this:</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:10px 0px 20px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;line-height:12pt">For all the following examples, assume that <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px">time</em> is an array of time values.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px 20px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;line-height:12pt"><b style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Example 1</b></p><p style="margin:10px 0px 20px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;line-height:12pt">Using the default format string of "" will result in "HHMM UTC D Mon YYYY" (e.g., 1800 UTC 4 Jul 1776):</p><div style="margin:10px 0px 20px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;line-height:12pt"><br class="m_-5313993296880618405m_1941723079638841122webkit-block-placeholder"></div><pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding:0px;font-size:13.3333px;line-height:12pt;font-family:courier;border-style:solid;border-width:0px 0px 15px;border-color:transparent"> format = ""
stime = cd_string(time,format)</pre><div>The goal is to plot the string "time_var" as shown below, as a single variable.</div><div><br></div><div>But I get an error; please see below.</div><div><br></div><div>(Note: I thought (as a try) to stick this information in the "unitlabel" parameter below, but I would really prefer to plot the date on the right hand side at</div><div>the top of the map).</div><div><br></div><div>Here's my code.</div><div><br></div><div><div>;HHMM UTC D Mon YYYY</div><div> time_array(0)=hour(1,1,1)</div><div> time_array(1)=minute(1,1,1)</div><div> time_array(2)=day(1,1,1)</div><div> time_array(3)=month(1,1,1)</div><div> time_array(4)=year(1,1,1)</div><div> time_array(5)=units</div><div>; format = "HHMM UTC D Mon YYYY"</div><div> format = ""</div><div> <b>time_var=cd_string(time_array,<wbr>format)</b></div><div> print("time_var = " + time_var)</div><div> opts_ic_cg@FieldTitle = "Lightning Rate"</div><div>; opts_ic_cg@UnitLabel = "/10-min"</div><div> <b> opts_ic_cg@UnitLabel = time_var</b></div></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><div style="font-weight:bold">(0)<span class="m_-5313993296880618405m_1941723079638841122gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Working on time: 2016-10-30_00:00:00</div><div style="font-weight:bold">(0)<span class="m_-5313993296880618405m_1941723079638841122gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>cd_string: The variable containing time values must have a 'units' attribute.</div><div style="font-weight:bold">fatal:Illegal right-hand side type for assignment</div><div style="font-weight:bold"><br></div><div>After searching and finding:</div><div style="font-weight:bold"><br></div><div style="font-weight:bold"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/User_contributed/time_axis_labels.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Docume<wbr>nt/Functions/User_contributed/<wbr>time_axis_labels.shtml</a><br></div><div style="font-weight:bold"><br></div><div style="font-weight:bold"><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-weight:normal">time</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-weight:normal"></span><p class="m_-5313993296880618405m_1941723079638841122gmail-indent" style="margin:10px 0px 20px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;font-size:13.3333px;line-height:12pt">An array containing the values of time. This variable should have an attribute named "units". In other words, this variable holds the values of the coordinate axis 'time' along with the units.</p><div><br></div><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-weight:normal"></em></div><div><br></div><div>I am not sure what this error means or how to address the error.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you.</div><div style="font-weight:bold"><br></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_-5313993296880618405m_1941723079638841122gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Barry H. Lynn, Ph.D<div><div>Senior Lecturer,</div><div><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">The Institute of the Earth Science, </span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, </span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel </span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"></div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Tel: 972 547 231 170</span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Fax: (972)-25662581</span></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><br></span></div><div>C.E.O, Weather It Is, LTD<br>Weather and Climate Focus<br><a href="http://weather-it-is.com/" target="_blank">http://weather-it-is.com</a><br>Jerusalem, Israel<br>Local: 02 930 9525<br>Cell: 054 7 231 170<br>Int-IS: x972 2 930 9525<br>US <a href="tel:914%20432%203108" value="+19144323108" target="_blank">914 432 3108</a><br></div></div></div>
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