<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Generally, i s recommended that you write a script with NCL commands; then execute the script.<br><br></div> %> ncl dawit.ncl<br><br></div>Why? NCL's interactive environment is not as 'friendly' in error recovery as in other tools. <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 7:05 AM, Guido Cioni <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:guidocioni@gmail.com" target="_blank">guidocioni@gmail.com</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">Sorry I didn't follow the whole conversation so you would have to send me the entire script for me to check...<div><br></div><div>What do you mean by "failed to return the graph"? You get no error or warning and no file is produced?</div><div>Try with the x11 workstation before using the postscript one so that you can easily debug any issue in the script beforehand. </div><div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><div>
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<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 10 Apr 2017, at 15:01, Dawit Abebe <<a href="mailto:dawit.kan@gmail.com" target="_blank">dawit.kan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-4961508701108069603Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Dear Guido,</div><div><br></div><div>What a shame of myself! </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks Guido. I did the correction and went through smoothly but the last command failed to return the graph (4 one side and 3 on the other side in one plot). What do you that I missed to complete this?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again</div><div>…………………………………... </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">ncl 109> do k=0,klen-1 </span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">ncl 110> res@xyLineColors = xyLineColors(k) </span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">ncl 111> res@gsnCenterString = "len="+klen(k)</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">ncl 112> plt(k) = gsn_csm_xy (wks, yrfrac, spi(k,:), res)</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">ncl 113> end do</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">ncl 114> resP = True</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">ncl 115> resP@txString = "SPI: Southern Ethiopia 1901-2014"</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">ncl 116> resP@gsnMaximize = True</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">ncl 117> gsn_panel (wks,plt,(/4,2/), resP)</span></div><div><br></div></div><div>………………….</div><div><br></div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 10, 2017, at 3:39 PM, Guido Cioni <<a href="mailto:guidocioni@gmail.com" target="_blank">guidocioni@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-4961508701108069603Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word">There is a typo in your code. It should be xyLineColors and not xyLineColours.<div>See here <a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/Resources/xy.shtml" target="_blank">https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/<wbr>Document/Graphics/Resources/<wbr>xy.shtml</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>(Look closely at the warning/error messages that you are receiving: most of the times they can help you a lot in identifying the problem)</div><div><br></div><div>Hope that helps<br><div><div>
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<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 10 Apr 2017, at 14:26, Dawit Abebe <<a href="mailto:dawit.kan@gmail.com" target="_blank">dawit.kan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-4961508701108069603Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Dear Dennis and all<div><br></div><div>I’m sorry for bothering you all but tried to do xy plot of spi following example 1but failed. You hinted in your email below that I should change the spi array but could not figure out how to do thi. I tried the following but could not able to continue after some step. I have gone through the documentations and examples but failed to fix my problem. </div><div><br></div><div>………………………………</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">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: 3151872 bytes</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> 393984 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_-4961508701108069603Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>[len | 8] 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_-4961508701108069603Apple-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_-4961508701108069603Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>-999</span></div><div><br></div><div><b>Plot Parameter</b></div><div style="margin:0px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:11px">ncl 55> yyyymm = f->time</span></font></span></div><div><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:11px">ncl 56> yyyymm = yyyymm/100yrStrt = 1901 </span></font></div><div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Verdana">ncl 57> yrLast = 2014</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Verdana">ncl 58> nyear = yrLast-yrStrt+1</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Verdana">ncl 59> yyyymm = yyyymm_time(yrStrt, yrLast, "integer")</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Verdana">ncl 60> yrfrac = (/yyyymm_to_yyyyfrac(yyyymm, 0.0)/)</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Verdana">ncl 61> </font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Verdana">ncl 62> wks = gsn_open_wks ("ps","spi")</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Verdana">ncl 63> res = True</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Verdana">ncl 64> res@gsnDraw=False</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Verdana">ncl 65> res@gsnFrame=False</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Verdana">ncl 66> res@vpHeightF = 0.4</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Verdana">ncl 67> res@vpWidthF = 0.8</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Verdana">ncl 68> res@vpXF = 0.1</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Verdana">ncl 69> </font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Verdana">ncl 70> res@trYMinF = -3.0</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Verdana">ncl 71> res@trYMaxF = 3.0</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Verdana">ncl 72> res@gsnYRefLine = 0.0</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Verdana">ncl 73> res@xyMonoDashPattern = True</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Verdana">ncl 74> res@xyLineThicknessF = 1</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Verdana">ncl 75> </font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Verdana">ncl 76> plt = new (klen, "graphic")</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Verdana">ncl 77> xyLineColors = (/"black","red","blue","green"<wbr>,"brown","magenta","grape"/)</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Verdana">ncl 78> do k=0,klen-1</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Verdana">ncl 79> res@xyLineColours = xyLineColours(k)</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Verdana">ncl 80> res@gsnCenterString = "len="+klen(k)</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Verdana">ncl 81> plt(k) = gsn_csm_xy (wks, yrfrac, spi(k,:), res)</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Verdana">ncl 82> end do</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="#ff2600">fatal:Undefined identifier: (xyLineColours) is undefined, can'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">fatal:["Execute.c":8638]:<wbr>Execute: Error occurred at or near line 79</span></div><div>……………………………</div></div></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your help</div><div><br></div><div>Dawit</div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> <br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 6, 2017, at 9:00 PM, Dennis Shea <<a href="mailto:shea@ucar.edu" target="_blank">shea@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-4961508701108069603Apple-interchange-newline"><div><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/" target="_blank">https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/<wbr>Applications/</a><br><br></div>Under Data Analysis: Click 'Standardized Precipitation Index'<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="m_-4961508701108069603gmail-im"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff">spi(0,:,)</font></span></span>==> <span class="m_-4961508701108069603gmail-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"><<a href="mailto:dawit.kan@gmail.com" target="_blank">dawit.kan@gmail.com</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"><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><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">print(yyyymm+sprintf("%8.2f", 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("%8.2f", spi(0,:,nl,ml))+sprintf("%8.2f<wbr>", 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("%8.2f", spi(2,:,nl,ml))+sprintf("%8.2f<wbr>", 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("%8.2f", spi(4,:,nl,ml))+sprintf("%8.2f<wbr>", spi(5,:,nl,ml)) \ </font></span></div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff"> +sprintf("%8.2f", 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="m_-4961508701108069603HOEnZb"><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><div>On Apr 5, 2017, at 4:43 PM, Dennis Shea <<a href="mailto:shea@ucar.edu" target="_blank">shea@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-4961508701108069603m_3985381471525000650Apple-interchange-newline"></span><div><div class="m_-4961508701108069603h5"><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'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/Docum<wbr>ent/Functions/Built-in/dim_<wbr>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("-----------------------<wbr>-------------------------")<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("%8.2f", 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("%8.2f", spi(0,:,nl,ml))+sprintf("%8.2f<wbr>", 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("%8.2f", spi(2,:,nl,ml))+sprintf("%8.2f<wbr>", 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("%8.2f", spi(4,:,nl,ml))+sprintf("%8.2f<wbr>", spi(5,:,nl,ml)) \ </font></span></div>
<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#0433ff"> +sprintf("%8.2f", 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"><<a href="mailto:dawit.kan@gmail.com" target="_blank">dawit.kan@gmail.com</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 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 = "SPI"</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 = "len"</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">spi&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_-4961508701108069603m_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_-4961508701108069603m_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_-4961508701108069603m_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->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("%8.2f", 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("%8.2f", spi(0,:))+sprintf("%8.2f", 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("%8.2f", spi(2,:))+sprintf("%8.2f", 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("%8.2f", spi(4,:))+sprintf("%8.2f", 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("%8.2f", 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'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:["Execute.c":8638]:Execu<wbr>te: Error occurred at or near line 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