<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">As another test, please see if you can look at the file using "ncl_filedump" from the UNIX command line. But, first make sure you have the file correctly spelled:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">ls <a href="http://precip.mon.total.v6.nc">precip.mon.total.v6.nc</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">then:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div>ncl_filedump <a href="http://precip.mon.total.v6.nc">precip.mon.total.v6.nc</a><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">This is the same thing as the 2-line script that Dennis asked you to try. If this works, then you can also verify at the same time if "precip" is a variable in that file.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">If you get any errors from the ncl_filedump command, respond back to ncl-talk with all of the error messages included.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">--Mary</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 11:45 AM, Dennis Shea <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shea@ucar.edu" target="_blank">shea@ucar.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hello ... Please respond to ncl-talk and not directly to me.<br><br></div><div>Your script has:<br><br> <b>f </b> = addfile("<a href="http://precip.mon.total.v6.nc" target="_blank">precip.mon.total.v6.<wbr>nc</a>","r")<br> prc =<b> f</b>->precip({tStrt:tLast},:,:) <wbr> ; whole grid <br><br></div><div>The error message is:<br><br>fatal: file (<b>f</b>) isn't defined<br><br></div><div>I am not sure what the problem would be. Someone else will have to respond.<br></div><div><br>---<br>What does the following yoeld? Likely the same error.<br><br> <b>f </b> = addfile("<a href="http://precip.mon.total.v6.nc" target="_blank">precip.mon.total.v6.<wbr>nc</a>","r")<br></div><div> print(<b>f</b>)<br></div><div><br>==============================<wbr>=======================<br></div>NOTE: <br>You do <b>not</b> have to load the following libraries from NCL 6.2.0 onward. So for 6.3.0, they are <b>automatically loaded.</b><br><br>load"$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/<wbr>nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl"<br>load"$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/<wbr>nclscripts/csm/gsn_csm.ncl"<br>load"$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/<wbr>nclscripts/csm/contributed.<wbr>ncl"<br><br></div>From 6.4.0, the following are automatically loaded:<br><br><pre> "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/<wbr>nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl"
"$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/<wbr>nclscripts/csm/gsn_csm.ncl"
"$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/<wbr>nclscripts/csm/contributed.<wbr>ncl"
"$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/<wbr>nclscripts/csm/shea_util.ncl"
"$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/<wbr>nclscripts/csm/bootstrap.ncl"
"$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/<wbr>nclscripts/csm/extval.ncl"
"$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/<wbr>nclscripts/wrf/WRFUserARW.ncl"</pre></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Setareh Rahimi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:setareh.rahimi@gmail.com" target="_blank">setareh.rahimi@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><div dir="auto">dear Dennis,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thank you for your advice, but both data file and script are in the same directory. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards,</div><div><div class="h5"><div><div class="m_-7350975473689884046h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Tue 29 Aug 2017 at 19:12, Dennis Shea <<a href="mailto:shea@ucar.edu" target="_blank">shea@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div><div><div><div>By default, NCL always looks in the 'current directory'.<br>My guess is that the data file is not in the same directory as the NCL script.<br><br></div><div>dirp = "/some/path/to/file/"<br></div>filp = "<a href="http://precip.mon.total.v6.nc" target="_blank">precip.mon.total.v6.nc</a>"<br><br></div>pthp = dirp + filp<br></div>f = addfile(pthp, "r")<br><br></div>or<br><br></div>f = addfile(dirp + filp, "r")<br><div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 8:26 AM, Setareh Rahimi <span><<a href="mailto:setareh.rahimi@gmail.com" target="_blank">setareh.rahimi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></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"><div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Dear all,</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Once I put my NCL command line in NCL environment, it returns me an error.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> Please have a look at the attached files, which contain a screenshot of the error and my script.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Please help me as soon as possible.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Best wishes,<div class="m_-7350975473689884046m_-4742645774607655313m_6155674948620778491m_8269151543085856917gmail-yj6qo m_-7350975473689884046m_-4742645774607655313m_6155674948620778491m_8269151543085856917gmail-ajU"><div id="m_-7350975473689884046m_-4742645774607655313m_6155674948620778491m_8269151543085856917gmail-:1x3" class="m_-7350975473689884046m_-4742645774607655313m_6155674948620778491m_8269151543085856917gmail-ajR"><img class="m_-7350975473689884046m_-4742645774607655313m_6155674948620778491m_8269151543085856917gmail-ajT" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div></div></div><span class="m_-7350975473689884046m_-4742645774607655313m_6155674948620778491HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br><div class="m_-7350975473689884046m_-4742645774607655313m_6155674948620778491m_8269151543085856917gmail_signature">S.Rahimi<br><br></div>
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