<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi Forrest,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I think part of the problem is that you are using wrf_xxxx plotting routines to plot data that is not specifically WRF output data.  You are opening a GRIB2 file, and I don&#39;t think those files have the same information that&#39;s normally on a WRF output file, which is required if you are going to use wrf_contour or wrf_map_overlays.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I suggest using gsn_csm_contour_map to plot your data.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Please go to:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/plot_data_on_map.shtml">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/plot_data_on_map.shtml</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">I think the third example might be of some help:</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/plot_data_on_map.shtml#ex3">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/plot_data_on_map.shtml#ex3</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">If this is a WRF grib file, then this might be a useful one to add our to examples suite, to help users like yourself who want to plot this kind of data. I would be happy to help you create one, and would need the data files in order to do this.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">--Mary</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 2:09 PM, Black, Forrest (LARC-D318)[UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION] <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:forrest.black@nasa.gov" target="_blank">forrest.black@nasa.gov</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">





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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am using NCL V6.3.0 to plot the difference between two RAP datasets.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Unfortunately, I keep getting the error:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Lucida Console&quot;">fatal:Number of dimensions in parameter (2) of (wrf_contour) is (1), (2) dimensions were expected<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Lucida Console&quot;">fatal:[&quot;Execute.c&quot;:8575]:Execu<wbr>te: Error occurred at or near line 63 in file diff1.ncl<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Attached is the script as well as the variable information. The variable it is referring to is UGRD_P0_L7_GLC0 wind u-vector and it has only two dimensions.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have looked at some previous forum discussions without success after using suggestions from those.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for your help,<span class="m_-8847844299670236744HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></p><span class="m_-8847844299670236744HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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</span></span><u></u>Forrest<u></u><u></u></p>
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