<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi Lyndz,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The issue is that this file has variables of type int64 which are not recognized by the current version of NCL.We fixed this problem in July and it will be in the next release of NCL. What this version does is convert the int64 types to double. This may still be an issue, but you do at least seem to get the correct values.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I did an ncl_convert2nc on your attached shapefile (thanks for providing this), and then did:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">ncl_filedump jtwc_P45-P51_par_1979-1993.nc -v Hour,Year</span></p><p class="gmail-p1">The output seems to indicate good values:</p></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"> <font face="monospace, monospace"> file global attributes:</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> segs_numPnts : 1</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> segs_xyzIndex : 0</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> geom_numSegs : 1</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> geom_segIndex : 0</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> geometry_type : polyline</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> layer_name : jtwc_P45-P51_par_1979-1993</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> creation_date : Tue Oct 10 21:59:19 MDT 2017</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> NCL_Version : 6.5.0 -08Oct2017_1141</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> system : Darwin MacBook-Pro.local 16.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version 16.7.0: Thu Jun 15 17:36:27 PDT 2017; root:xnu-3789.70.16~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> Conventions : None</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> title : NCL: convert-OGR-to-netCDF</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> dimensions:</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> geometry = 2</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> segments = 2</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> num_features = 56</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> num_segments = 56</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> num_points = 1242</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> ncl_strlen_0 = 4</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> variables:</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> integer geometry ( num_features, geometry )</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> integer segments ( num_segments, segments )</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> double x ( num_points )</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> double y ( num_points )</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> double SN ( num_features )</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> double CY ( num_features )</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> double Year ( num_features )</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> double Month ( num_features )</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> double Day ( num_features )</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> double Hour ( num_features )</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> double Lat ( num_features )</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> double Lon ( num_features )</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> double VMax ( num_features )</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> character Cat ( num_features, ncl_strlen_0 )</font></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace">Variable No. 0</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> Hour:</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> 12.00 18.00 18.00 6.000 12.00 6.000 </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> 6.000 6.000 0.000 0.000 6.000 6.000 </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> 6.000 12.00 0.000 18.00 0.000 12.00 </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> 6.000 18.00 18.00 18.00 0.000 6.000 </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> 6.000 0.000 12.00 18.00 0.000 0.000 </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> 6.000 12.00 18.00 0.000 18.00 12.00 </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> 6.000 6.000 18.00 0.000 12.00 18.00 </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> 0.000 18.00 6.000 18.00 0.000 18.00 </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> 18.00 18.00 18.00 18.00 12.00 0.000 </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> 18.00 18.00 </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace">Variable No. 1</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> Year:</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> 1983. 1983. 1983. 1985. 1987. 1984. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> 1987. 1983. 1984. 1985. 1987. 1991. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> 1979. 1982. 1986. 1991. 1992. 1979. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> 1982. 1984. 1985. 1986. 1990. 1992. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> 1984. 1986. 1982. 1984. 1986. 1993. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> 1987. 1980. 1981. 1982. 1990. 1992. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> 1990. 1992. 1993. 1985. 1980. 1982. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> 1990. 1981. 1993. 1982. 1991. 1993. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> 1982. 1990. 1991. 1993. 1989. 1993. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> 1993. 1989. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">If you would like to try this version of NCL, let us know. You can email me offline about this. Meanwhile, I have filed a ticket (NCL-2671) regarding the fact that the int64 values are converted to double, in case it's something we can fix easily.</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></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 8:48 PM, Lyndon Mark Olaguera <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:olagueralyndonmark429@gmail.com" target="_blank">olagueralyndonmark429@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 dir="ltr"><div><div class="m_6050784222060483495gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear NCL experts,</div><div><br></div><div>I am trying to convert a shapefile to netcdf file using the ncl_convert2nc function. I am using NCLv6.4.0.</div><div><br></div><div>I attached the shapefiles in this email.</div><div><br></div><div>Here is the error.</div><div><br></div><div><div><b>See <a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/" target="_blank">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/</a> for more details.</b></div><div><b>fatal:FileAddVar: an error occurred while adding variable <SN> to file <jtwc_P45-P51_par_1979-1993>, check to make sure data type is supported by the output format</b></div><div><b>fatal:["Execute.c":8640]:<wbr>Execute: Error occurred at or near line 531 in file /tmp/tmp29593-59dd85b8.ncl</b></div></div><div><br></div><div>Is there a specific format that this function requires in converting a shapefile (e.g. dates and variables only?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div><br></div><div>Lyndz</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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