<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 Gaeun,<div class="">that is certainly possible. </div><div class="">If the files are not too big I don't see any problem in saving everything into one variable. Just make sure that the machine where you're running NCL has enough memory. Ideally you need to loop over the directories and over the file names, read the file, save into the variable. That's it! </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" size="1" class="">dirs=tostring(ispan(1979, 2009, 1))</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" size="1" class="">fils=tostring(ispan(1,12,1))</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" size="1" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" size="1" class="">nlat=100</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" size="1" class="">nlon=100</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" size="1" class="">ntime=dimsizes(fils)*dimsizes(dirs)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" size="1" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" size="1" class="">data=new((/ntime,nlat,nlon/), double)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" size="1" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" size="1" class="">k=0</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" size="1" class="">do i=0,dimsizes(dirs)-1</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" size="1" class=""> do j=0,dimsizes(fils)-1</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" size="1" class=""> data(k,:,:)= fbindirread(dirs(i)+"/"+fils(j)+".bin", nlat*nlon, (/nlat,nlon/), "double")</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" size="1" class=""> k=k+1</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" size="1" class=""> end do </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" size="1" class="">end do </font></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is just an idea, of course. I did not test this and you have to adapt it to your needs. Have a look here <a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/r-binary.shtml" class="">https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/r-binary.shtml</a>. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Good luck</div><div class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 18 Mar 2017, at 14:35, 김가은 <<a href="mailto:gaeun.kim0921@gmail.com" class="">gaeun.kim0921@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Dear NCL users,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have multiple binary files stored like below:</div><div class="">directory 1979 has 12 binary files (monthly temp.)</div><div class="">directory 1980 has 12 binary files</div><div class="">...</div><div class="">directory 2009 has 12 binary files</div><div class="">--> 31 directories, each contains 12 binary files</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I want to draw a X-Y plot (time series) with those data.</div><div class="">So I was thinking that maybe I could open all of it and save each data in a variable(3d:(/371,lat,lon/))</div><div class="">But I'm not sure it is possible and I'm lost..!</div><div class="">Would you give me an idea how I should start with this?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best Regards,</div><div class="">Gaeun</div></div>
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