<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>I do not understand the question.<br><br></div><a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/">https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/</a><br><br></div>Under Data Analysis: Click &#39;Standardized Precipitation Index&#39;<br><br></div>See: Example 1<br><br></div>You need to make the same array changes as in the print.<br><br></div>EG:     <span class="gmail-im"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">spi(0,:,)</font></span></span>==&gt; <span class="gmail-im"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">spi(0,:,nl,ml)</font></span></span><br><div> <br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 1:22 AM, Dawit Abebe <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:dawit.kan@gmail.com" target="_blank">dawit.kan@gmail.com</a>&gt;</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"><font color="#ff2600">Hello All,</font><div><br></div><div><font color="#ff2600">Thanks to Dennis, I am able to appreciate the power of NCL computing SPI. My next step is to produce </font></div><div><font color="#ff2600"> (1) a time serious XY plot for seasonal (SPI-3 ending in May and ending in November), annual (SPI-12) and multi annual (SPI-24 and SPI-36 months) and </font></div><div><font color="#ff2600">(2) Shape map of selected annual SPI with extremely sever drought events to examine the spatial characteristics of the drought.</font></div><div><font color="#ff2600"><br></font></div><div><font color="#ff2600">I’m not asking for help before I try by my self (thanks Dennis for the push to do this). However, I need a quick comment how I should proceed from the last step producing the SPI output, which was printing: </font></div><span class=""><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">print(yyyymm+sprintf(&quot;%8.2f&quot;, prc(:,nl,ml))   \                                 </font></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">                +sprintf(&quot;%8.2f&quot;, spi(0,:,nl,ml))+sprintf(&quot;%8.<wbr>2f&quot;, spi(1,:,nl,ml)) \  </font></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">                +sprintf(&quot;%8.2f&quot;, spi(2,:,nl,ml))+sprintf(&quot;%8.<wbr>2f&quot;, spi(3,:,nl,ml)) \ </font></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">                +sprintf(&quot;%8.2f&quot;, spi(4,:,nl,ml))+sprintf(&quot;%8.<wbr>2f&quot;, spi(5,:,nl,ml)) \  </font></span></p><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">                +sprintf(&quot;%8.2f&quot;, spi(6,:,nl,ml)))</font></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff"><br></font></span></div></span><div><font color="#ff2600"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Do I need to go through this and then start with plot </span>parameters, or I can continue with plot parameters without the print command?</font></div><div><font color="#0433ff"><br></font></div><div><font color="#ff2600">Thank you so much</font></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><font color="#ff2600">Dawit</font></div><div><font color="#0433ff"><br></font></div><div><font color="#0433ff"><br></font></div><div>  </div></font></span><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class=""><div>On Apr 5, 2017, at 4:43 PM, Dennis Shea &lt;<a href="mailto:shea@ucar.edu" target="_blank">shea@ucar.edu</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="m_3985381471525000650Apple-interchange-newline"></span><div><div class="h5"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>The error mesages is telling you the exact problem:<br>   <span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">fatal:Plus: Number of dimensions do not match, can&#39;t continue</font></span></div><div><br>spi has 4-dimensions:<br>   <span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">[len | 7] x [time | 1368] x [lat | 4] x [lon | 9]<br><br></span></div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">prc has 3-dimensions<br>   </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">[time | 1368] x [lat | 4] x [lon | 9]<br><br></span></div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">yyyymm has 1-dimension<br>   </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">[time | 1368]<br><br>==============<br></span></div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">The print statement you used was copied from:<br>    <a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/dim_spi_n.shtml" target="_blank">https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/<wbr>Document/Functions/Built-in/<wbr>dim_spi_n.shtml</a><br></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">    Example 2<br></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">That was working upon a single time series prc[*]<br></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span><font color="#0433ff"></font><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">  <br><br></font></span></div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">You have a 4-D array. *You* must make the appropriate changed to handle your situation.<br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">The eamples are not generic to all dimensions.<br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">   nlat=4<br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">   mlon=9<br><br></font></span></div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">   do nl=0,nlat-1<br></font></span></div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">      do ml=0,mlon-1<br></font></span></div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">       print(&quot;-----------------------<wbr>-------------------------&quot;)<br></font></span><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><br><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">print(yyyymm+sprintf(&quot;%8.2f&quot;, prc(:,nl,ml))   \                                 </font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">                +sprintf(&quot;%8.2f&quot;, spi(0,:,nl,ml))+sprintf(&quot;%8.<wbr>2f&quot;, spi(1,:,nl,ml)) \  </font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">                +sprintf(&quot;%8.2f&quot;, spi(2,:,nl,ml))+sprintf(&quot;%8.<wbr>2f&quot;, spi(3,:,nl,ml)) \ </font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">                +sprintf(&quot;%8.2f&quot;, spi(4,:,nl,ml))+sprintf(&quot;%8.<wbr>2f&quot;, spi(5,:,nl,ml)) \  </font></span></div>
<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">                +sprintf(&quot;%8.2f&quot;, spi(6,:,nl,ml)))<br><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">    end do<br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">  en do<br></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 2:20 AM, Dawit Abebe <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:dawit.kan@gmail.com" target="_blank">dawit.kan@gmail.com</a>&gt;</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 style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Hello all,</span></div><div><br></div><div>Kindly help me to fix my problem with printing SPI. I pasted below first the return of printVarSummary(spi), which seems okay. However, my attempt to print  the output (text in blue) did not work.  What was wrong?</div><div><br></div><div>Greatly appreciate your help.</div><div><br></div><div>Dawit</div><div><br></div><div>…………………………………….</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">copy_VarCoords(prc,spi(0,:,:,:<wbr>))</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">spi@long_name = &quot;SPI&quot;</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">spi!0         = &quot;len&quot;</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">spi&amp;len       =  len</span></div><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo">



</p><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">printVarSummary(spi)</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Variable: spi</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Type: double</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Total Size: 2757888 bytes</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">            344736 values</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Number of Dimensions: 4</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Dimensions and sizes:<span class="m_3985381471525000650m_-3429062055612373153Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">        </span>[len | 7] x [time | 1368] x [lat | 4] x [lon | 9]</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Coordinates: </span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">            len: [1..36]</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">            time: [ 380..41987]</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">            lat: [3.75..5.25]</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">            lon: [36.75..40.75]</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Number Of Attributes: 2</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">  long_name :<span class="m_3985381471525000650m_-3429062055612373153Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">        </span>SPI</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">  _FillValue :<span class="m_3985381471525000650m_-3429062055612373153Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">        </span>-999</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">yyyymm = cd_calendar(f-&gt;time, -1) </font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff"><br></font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">print(yyyymm+sprintf(&quot;%8.2f&quot;, prc)   \                                 </font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">                +sprintf(&quot;%8.2f&quot;, spi(0,:))+sprintf(&quot;%8.2f&quot;, spi(1,:)) \  </font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">                +sprintf(&quot;%8.2f&quot;, spi(2,:))+sprintf(&quot;%8.2f&quot;, spi(3,:)) \ </font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">                +sprintf(&quot;%8.2f&quot;, spi(4,:))+sprintf(&quot;%8.2f&quot;, spi(5,:)) \  </font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">                +sprintf(&quot;%8.2f&quot;, spi(6,:)))                              </font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">fatal:Plus: Number of dimensions do not match, can&#39;t continue</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">fatal:[&quot;Execute.c&quot;:8638]:Execu<wbr>te: Error occurred at or near line 37</font></span></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
ncl-talk mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu" target="_blank">ncl-talk@ucar.edu</a><br>
List instructions, subscriber options, unsubscribe:<br>
<a href="http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-talk" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailma<wbr>n/listinfo/ncl-talk</a><br>
<br></blockquote></div><br></div>
</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>