<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>After looking carefully at your script and the output you sent, I can not tell what might be causing a blank plot. If you are able and willing to send your data, I could try further testing. You can email it directly to me, or if its 10'sMB, send it to our ftp site.<br><br></div>Rick<br><div><br><b>You can ftp larger datasets and files to:</b>
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</p><pre>ftp <a href="http://ftp.cgd.ucar.edu">ftp.cgd.ucar.edu</a>
anonymous
<use your email address for the password>
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</p><p><br></p><p><br></p></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Ying Song <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ying.song@sjsu.edu" target="_blank">ying.song@sjsu.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">Hi, thanks for the reply!<div><br></div><div>The idea is plotting weekly profiles and I defined the array and everyweek, I write one day data from input files and set other 6 days of the week as missing values. I am not sure if that "<span style="font-size:12.8px">ManualLevels" resources caused the problem but even I commented them out, the plot is still blank. </span></div><div><br></div><div>I just added the stat_dispersion. below is the screen log when I run ncl script:</div><div>--------------------</div><div><div>Variable: multi_ozone</div><div>Type: float</div><div>Total Size: 23296 bytes</div><div> 5824 values</div><div>Number of Dimensions: 2</div><div>Dimensions and sizes: [height | 208] x [time | 28]</div><div>Coordinates:</div><div> height: [0.036..20.7]</div><div>Number Of Attributes: 1</div><div> _FillValue : 9.96921e+36</div><div><br></div><div>Variable: multi_ozone</div><div>Type: float</div><div>Total Size: 23296 bytes</div><div> 5824 values</div><div>Number of Dimensions: 2</div><div>Dimensions and sizes: [height | 208] x [time | 28]</div><div>Coordinates:</div><div> height: [0.036..20.7]</div><div>Number Of Attributes: 1</div><div> _FillValue : -999</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Variable: multi_ozone (subsection)</div><div>Type: float</div><div>Total Size: 16 bytes</div><div> 4 values</div><div>Number of Dimensions: 1</div><div>Dimensions and sizes: [height | 4]</div><div>Coordinates:</div><div> height: [0.4..0.7]</div><div>Number Of Attributes: 1</div><div> _FillValue : -999</div><div>(0) 26</div><div>(1) 28</div><div>(2) 32</div><div>(3) 34</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Variable: multi_ozone (subsection)</div><div>Type: float</div><div>Total Size: 16 bytes</div><div> 4 values</div><div>Number of Dimensions: 1</div><div>Dimensions and sizes: [height | 4]</div><div>Coordinates:</div><div> height: [0.4..0.7]</div><div>Number Of Attributes: 1</div><div> _FillValue : -999</div><div>(0) -999</div><div>(1) -999</div><div>(2) -999</div><div>(3) -999</div><div>(0)</div><div>(0) ===> Robust Dispersion Statistics <===</div><div>(0) [0] Mean=485.873</div><div>(0) [1] StdDev=657.565</div><div>(0) [2] Min=16</div><div>(0) [3] LowDec=47</div><div>(0) [4] LowOct=51</div><div>(0) [5] LowSex=54</div><div>(0) [6] LowQuartile=60</div><div>(0) [7] LowTri=68</div><div>(0) [8] Median=113</div><div>(0) [9] HighTri=531</div><div>(0) [10] HighQuartile=671</div><div>(0) [11] HighSex=885</div><div>(0) [12] HighOct=1238</div><div>(0) [13] HighDec=1473</div><div>(0) [14] Max=3029</div><div>(0) [15] Range=3013</div><div>(0) [16] Dispersion=4.58205</div><div>(0) [17] RMS Anomaly=657.249</div><div>(0) [18] # Total=5824</div><div>(0) [19] # Used=1040</div><div>(0) [20] # Missing=4784</div><div>(0) [21] % Missing=82.1429</div><div>(0) [22] Lower 0.1%=16</div><div>(0) [23] Lower 1.0%=28</div><div>(0) [24] Lower 5.0%=38</div><div>(0) [25] Upper 5.0%=2132</div><div>(0) [26] Upper 1.0%=2795</div><div>(0) [27] Upper 0.1%=2973</div><div>(0) [28] Skewness=1.89842</div><div>(0) [29] Kurtosis=3.11111</div><div>(0)</div></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 8:03 PM, Rick Brownrigg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brownrig@ucar.edu" target="_blank">brownrig@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><div>Hi,<br><br></div>I see that you are scaling the values to be plotted, and that you do a printVarSummary() on them afterwards. Are you saying that the results are within the resource settings for "ManualLevels", i.e, the min/max/spacing, etc? That would normally be suspect. Maybe print out the results of a stat_dispersion() call:<br><br><a href="http://ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Contributed/stat_dispersion.shtml" target="_blank">http://ncl.ucar.edu/Document/F<wbr>unctions/Contributed/stat_disp<wbr>ersion.shtml</a><br><br></div>Wish I could be of more help...<br></div>Rick<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_3182016785314560239h5">On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Ying Song <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ying.song@sjsu.edu" target="_blank">ying.song@sjsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_3182016785314560239h5"><div dir="ltr">Hi, ncl-help,<div><br></div><div>I have question about gsn_sm_contour. I use it to make curtain plot for weekly ozone profiles. </div><div><br></div><div>There is no error msg, and the array I defined looks correct when I print out some values for test. But the plot (attached) is blank. I also attached my script. Please help me take a look. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks! </div></div>
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