<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="">Sorry I didn't follow the whole conversation so you would have to send me the entire script for me to check...<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What do you mean by "failed to return the graph"? You get no error or warning and no file is produced?</div><div class="">Try with the x11 workstation before using the postscript one so that you can easily debug any issue in the script beforehand.&nbsp;</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 10 Apr 2017, at 15:01, Dawit Abebe &lt;<a href="mailto:dawit.kan@gmail.com" class="">dawit.kan@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear Guido,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What a shame of myself!&nbsp;</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks again</div><div class="">…………………………………...&nbsp;</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">ncl 109&gt; do k=0,klen-1&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">ncl 110&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; res@xyLineColors = xyLineColors(k)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">ncl 111&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; res@gsnCenterString = "len="+klen(k)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">ncl 112&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; 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;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">ncl 113&gt; end do</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">ncl 114&gt; resP&nbsp;&nbsp; = True</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">ncl 115&gt; resP@txString = "SPI: Southern Ethiopia 1901-2014"</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">ncl 116&gt; resP@gsnMaximize = True</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">ncl 117&gt; gsn_panel (wks,plt,(/4,2/), resP)</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">………………….</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 10, 2017, at 3:39 PM, Guido Cioni &lt;<a href="mailto:guidocioni@gmail.com" class="">guidocioni@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">There is a typo in your code. It should be&nbsp;xyLineColors and not&nbsp;xyLineColours.<div class="">See here&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/Resources/xy.shtml" class="">https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/Resources/xy.shtml</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hope that helps<br class=""><div class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 10 Apr 2017, at 14:26, Dawit Abebe &lt;<a href="mailto:dawit.kan@gmail.com" class="">dawit.kan@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Dennis and all<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.&nbsp;</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">………………………………</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">Variable: spi</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">Type: double</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">Total Size: 3151872 bytes</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;393984 values</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">Number of Dimensions: 4</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">Dimensions and sizes:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">        </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;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">Coordinates:&nbsp;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;len: [1..36]</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;time: [ 380..41987]</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;lat: [3.75..5.25]</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;lon: [36.75..40.75]</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">Number Of Attributes: 2</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">&nbsp;&nbsp;long_name :<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">        </span>SPI</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">&nbsp;&nbsp;_FillValue :<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">        </span>-999</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Plot Parameter</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Verdana" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class="">ncl 55&gt; yyyymm = f-&gt;time</span></font></span></div><div class=""><font face="Verdana" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class="">ncl 56&gt; yyyymm = yyyymm/100yrStrt = 1901 &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></font></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">ncl 57&gt; yrLast = 2014</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">ncl 58&gt; nyear&nbsp;&nbsp;= yrLast-yrStrt+1</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">ncl 59&gt; yyyymm = yyyymm_time(yrStrt, yrLast, "integer")</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">ncl 60&gt; yrfrac = (/yyyymm_to_yyyyfrac(yyyymm, 0.0)/)</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">ncl 61&gt;&nbsp;</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">ncl 62&gt; wks&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;= gsn_open_wks ("ps","spi")</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">ncl 63&gt; res&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;= True</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">ncl 64&gt; res@gsnDraw=False</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">ncl 65&gt; res@gsnFrame=False</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">ncl 66&gt; res@vpHeightF = 0.4</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">ncl 67&gt; res@vpWidthF&nbsp;&nbsp;= 0.8</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">ncl 68&gt; res@vpXF&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;= 0.1</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">ncl 69&gt;&nbsp;</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">ncl 70&gt; res@trYMinF&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;= -3.0</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">ncl 71&gt; res@trYMaxF&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;=&nbsp;&nbsp;3.0</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">ncl 72&gt; res@gsnYRefLine = 0.0</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">ncl 73&gt; res@xyMonoDashPattern = True</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">ncl 74&gt; res@xyLineThicknessF&nbsp;&nbsp;= 1</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">ncl 75&gt;&nbsp;</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">ncl 76&gt; plt = new (klen, "graphic")</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">ncl 77&gt; xyLineColors = (/"black","red","blue","green","brown","magenta","grape"/)</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">ncl 78&gt; do k=0,klen-1</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">ncl 79&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;res@xyLineColours = xyLineColours(k)</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">ncl 80&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;res@gsnCenterString = "len="+klen(k)</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">ncl 81&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;plt(k) = gsn_csm_xy (wks, yrfrac, spi(k,:), res)</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">ncl 82&gt; end do</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font color="#ff2600" class="">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;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">fatal:["Execute.c":8638]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 79</span></div><div class="">……………………………</div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for your help</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dawit</div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">&nbsp;&nbsp;<br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 6, 2017, at 9:00 PM, Dennis Shea &lt;<a href="mailto:shea@ucar.edu" class="">shea@ucar.edu</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">I do not understand the question.<br class=""><br class=""></div><a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/" class="">https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/</a><br class=""><br class=""></div>Under Data Analysis: Click 'Standardized Precipitation Index'<br class=""><br class=""></div>See: Example 1<br class=""><br class=""></div>You need to make the same array changes as in the print.<br class=""><br class=""></div>EG:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span class="gmail-im"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">spi(0,:,)</font></span></span>==&gt; <span class="gmail-im"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">spi(0,:,nl,ml)</font></span></span><br class=""><div class="">&nbsp;<br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 1:22 AM, Dawit Abebe <span dir="ltr" class="">&lt;<a href="mailto:dawit.kan@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">dawit.kan@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><font color="#ff2600" class="">Hello All,</font><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font color="#ff2600" class="">Thanks to Dennis, I am able to appreciate the power of NCL computing SPI. My next step is to produce&nbsp;</font></div><div class=""><font color="#ff2600" class="">&nbsp;(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&nbsp;</font></div><div class=""><font color="#ff2600" class="">(2) Shape map of selected annual SPI with extremely sever drought events to examine the spatial characteristics of the drought.</font></div><div class=""><font color="#ff2600" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#ff2600" class="">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:&nbsp;</font></div><span class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">print(yyyymm+sprintf("%8.2f", prc(:,nl,ml)) &nbsp; \&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;+sprintf("%8.2f", spi(0,:,nl,ml))+sprintf("%8.<wbr class="">2f", spi(1,:,nl,ml)) \ &nbsp;</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;+sprintf("%8.2f", spi(2,:,nl,ml))+sprintf("%8.<wbr class="">2f", spi(3,:,nl,ml)) \&nbsp;</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;+sprintf("%8.2f", spi(4,:,nl,ml))+sprintf("%8.<wbr class="">2f", spi(5,:,nl,ml)) \ &nbsp;</font></span></div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;+sprintf("%8.2f", spi(6,:,nl,ml)))</font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div></span><div class=""><font color="#ff2600" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">Do I need to go through this and then start with plot&nbsp;</span>parameters, or I can continue with plot parameters without the print command?</font></div><div class=""><font color="#0433ff" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#ff2600" class="">Thank you so much</font></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class=""><div class=""><font color="#ff2600" class="">Dawit</font></div><div class=""><font color="#0433ff" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#0433ff" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="">&nbsp;&nbsp;</div></font></span><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span class=""><div class="">On Apr 5, 2017, at 4:43 PM, Dennis Shea &lt;<a href="mailto:shea@ucar.edu" target="_blank" class="">shea@ucar.edu</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="m_3985381471525000650Apple-interchange-newline"></span><div class=""><div class="h5"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">The error mesages is telling you the exact problem:<br class="">&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">fatal:Plus: Number of dimensions do not match, can't continue</font></span></div><div class=""><br class="">spi has 4-dimensions:<br class="">&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">[len | 7] x [time | 1368] x [lat | 4] x [lon | 9]<br class=""><br class=""></span></div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">prc has 3-dimensions<br class="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">[time | 1368] x [lat | 4] x [lon | 9]<br class=""><br class=""></span></div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">yyyymm has 1-dimension<br class="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">[time | 1368]<br class=""><br class="">==============<br class=""></span></div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">The print statement you used was copied from:<br class="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/dim_spi_n.shtml" target="_blank" class="">https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/<wbr class="">Document/Functions/Built-in/<wbr class="">dim_spi_n.shtml</a><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Example 2<br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">That was working upon a single time series prc[*]<br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span><font color="#0433ff" class=""></font><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">&nbsp; <br class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">You have a 4-D array. *You* must make the appropriate changed to handle your situation.<br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">The eamples are not generic to all dimensions.<br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">&nbsp;&nbsp; nlat=4<br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">&nbsp;&nbsp; mlon=9<br class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">&nbsp;&nbsp; do nl=0,nlat-1<br class=""></font></span></div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; do ml=0,mlon-1<br class=""></font></span></div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; print("-----------------------<wbr class="">-------------------------")<br class=""></font></span><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">print(yyyymm+sprintf("%8.2f", prc(:,nl,ml)) &nbsp; \&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;+sprintf("%8.2f", spi(0,:,nl,ml))+sprintf("%8.<wbr class="">2f", spi(1,:,nl,ml)) \ &nbsp;</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;+sprintf("%8.2f", spi(2,:,nl,ml))+sprintf("%8.<wbr class="">2f", spi(3,:,nl,ml)) \&nbsp;</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;+sprintf("%8.2f", spi(4,:,nl,ml))+sprintf("%8.<wbr class="">2f", spi(5,:,nl,ml)) \ &nbsp;</font></span></div>
<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;+sprintf("%8.2f", spi(6,:,nl,ml)))<br class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; end do<br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">&nbsp; en do<br class=""></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 2:20 AM, Dawit Abebe <span dir="ltr" class="">&lt;<a href="mailto:dawit.kan@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">dawit.kan@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">Hello all,</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 &nbsp;the output (text in blue) did not work.&nbsp; What was wrong?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Greatly appreciate your help.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dawit</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">…………………………………….</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">copy_VarCoords(prc,spi(0,:,:,:<wbr class="">))</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">spi@long_name = "SPI"</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">spi!0 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; = "len"</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">spi&amp;len &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; =&nbsp; len</span></div><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class="">



</p><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">printVarSummary(spi)</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">Variable: spi</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">Type: double</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">Total Size: 2757888 bytes</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 344736 values</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">Number of Dimensions: 4</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">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" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">Coordinates:&nbsp;</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; len: [1..36]</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; time: [ 380..41987]</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; lat: [3.75..5.25]</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; lon: [36.75..40.75]</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">Number Of Attributes: 2</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">&nbsp; 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" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">&nbsp; _FillValue :<span class="m_3985381471525000650m_-3429062055612373153Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">        </span>-999</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">yyyymm = cd_calendar(f-&gt;time, -1)&nbsp;</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">print(yyyymm+sprintf("%8.2f", prc) &nbsp; \&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;+sprintf("%8.2f", spi(0,:))+sprintf("%8.2f", spi(1,:)) \ &nbsp;</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;+sprintf("%8.2f", spi(2,:))+sprintf("%8.2f", spi(3,:)) \&nbsp;</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;+sprintf("%8.2f", spi(4,:))+sprintf("%8.2f", spi(5,:)) \ &nbsp;</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;+sprintf("%8.2f", spi(6,:))) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">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" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">fatal:["Execute.c":8638]:Execu<wbr class="">te: Error occurred at or near line 37</font></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class="">______________________________<wbr class="">_________________<br class="">
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