<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_chip gmail_drive_chip" style="width:396px;height:18px;max-height:18px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245);padding:5px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;font-size:13px;border:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);line-height:1"><a href="https://drive.google.com/a/sjsu.edu/file/d/0B67osBUwSAudOC15MWZsRzAwZWc/view?usp=drive_web" target="_blank" style="display:inline-block;max-width:366px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap;text-decoration:none;padding:1px 0;border:none"><img style="vertical-align: bottom; border: none;" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_10_generic_list.png"> <span dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:bottom">MERRA2_400.inst3_3d_asm_Np.20160601.nc</span></a><img src="//ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/common/x_8px.png" style="opacity: 0.55; cursor: pointer; float: right; position: relative; top: -1px; display: none;"></div>Hello, Mary,<div><br></div><div>I tried to the "trGridType" setting and got this error:<div><div>fatal:ContourPlotDraw: Workspace reallocation would exceed maximum size 100000000</div><div>fatal:ContourPlotDraw: draw error</div><div>fatal:ContourPlotDraw: draw error</div><div>fatal:PlotManagerDraw: error in plot draw</div><div>fatal:_NhlPlotManagerDraw: Draw error</div></div><div>-----------------</div></div><div><br></div><div>the script is attached. The MERRA-2 file I used is quite large (2.9G). I tried to upload it to ftp following the link you sent. Got some error msg below. So I attached it using google drive. Hope you are able to download it. </div><div><br></div><div>200 PORT command sucessful. Consider using PASV</div><div>553 Could not create file. </div><div>---------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks! </div><div><br></div><div>Ying</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 10:12 AM, Mary Haley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:haley@ucar.edu" target="_blank">haley@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 class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Ying,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Sorry about the delay, I've been out-of-town.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Were you able to figure out the problem? Did you try the "trGridType" setting that the message recommended? This is needed if your lat/lon coordinates contain missing values.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> If you are still having a problem, it would help if I could have access to your data file and the latest version of your script.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">You can upload these to our ftp site:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ftp_files.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ftp_<wbr>files.shtml</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">--Mary</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 2:58 AM, 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">Hello, Mary, <div><br></div><div>I modified my script following your first suggestion. The problem is still there. The warning msg shows:</div><div>------------------------------<wbr>-------------------</div><div><div>Variable: o3_p</div><div>Type: float</div><div>Total Size: 831744 bytes</div><div> 207936 values</div><div>Number of Dimensions: 2</div><div>Dimensions and sizes: [lat | 361] x [lon | 576]</div><div>Coordinates:</div><span><div> lat: [ -90.. 90]</div><div> lon: [-180..179.375]</div></span><div>Number Of Attributes: 13</div><div> lev : 900</div><div> time : 540</div><div> long_name : ozone mixing ratio</div><div> units : ppbv</div><span><div> _FillValue : 1e+15</div><div> missing_value : 1e+15</div><div> fmissing_value : 1e+15</div><div> scale_factor : 1</div><div> add_offset : 0</div><div> standard_name : ozone_mass_mixing_ratio</div><div> vmax : 1e+15</div><div> vmin : -1e+15</div><div> valid_range : ( -1e+15, 1e+15 )</div></span><span><div>warning:ContourPlotDraw: out of range coordinates encountered; standard AreaFill rendering method may be unreliable;</div><div> consider setting the resource trGridType to "TriangularMesh" if coordinates contain missing values</div></span></div><div>------------------------------<wbr>-------</div><div>And I attached the updated script. I wounder if I need to add triangular meshes resource in my script?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks! </div></div><div class="m_-8722376094095682836HOEnZb"><div class="m_-8722376094095682836h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 8:46 AM, Mary Haley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:haley@ucar.edu" target="_blank">haley@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 class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I think the issue is that "o3_p", which is the variable you are trying to plot, doesn't have any metadata attached to it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">When you do calculations like this in NCL:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default"> o3= a->O3(3,4,:,:) ; 18GTM = 11AM PST </div><div class="gmail_default"> printVarSummary(o3)</div><div class="gmail_default"> o3_p =(o3*1e9)*(28.97/48)<br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">The "o3" will have metadata because no computations were done when you read the variable off the file.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">However, since o3_p involves calculations, NCL will strip all the metadata and the only thing that o3_p will retain from o3 is the _FillValue attribute, if any.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">As a "trick", you can force o3_p to have the same metadata by doing the following:</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> o3_p = a->O3(3,4,:,:) ; 18GTM = 11AM PST </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> o3_p =(o3_p*1e9)*(28.97/48)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">The first line will read the data into o3_p, and the metadata will all be there. Then, when you do the calculation, since o3_p already exists, no metadata will be removed.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Note that I removed the use of o3, just to save memory. If you need to keep o3 and o3_p around, then you can do:</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> o3 = a->O3(3,4,:,:) ; 18GTM = 11AM PST <br> o3_p = o3 ; trick to copy metadata</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> o3_p =(o3*1e9)*(28.97/48)</font></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">You should however, update the long_name and units attributes of o3_p, to reflect what the new values represent.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">--Mary</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_-8722376094095682836m_6220905520815541298h5">On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 5:05 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_-8722376094095682836m_6220905520815541298h5"><div dir="ltr">Hello, ncl helper,<div><br></div><div>I trying to plot MERRA-2 reanalysis data in NCL using gsn_contour_map. I am only interested in west coast of US. But I can not get the zoom in plot correctly by using resources:</div><div><div><br></div><div> res@mpMinLatF = 30</div><div> res@mpMaxLatF = 45</div><div> res@mpMinLonF = -130</div><div> res@mpMaxLonF = -110</div></div><div><br></div><div>The warning shows:</div><div><div>warning:ContourPlotDraw: out of range coordinates encountered; standard AreaFill rendering method may be unreliable;</div><div> consider setting the resource trGridType to "TriangularMesh" if coordinates contain missing values</div></div><div><br></div><div>Attachment is my script. The info of MERRA-2 O3 data from printVarSummary is:</div><div> -----------------------------<wbr>-</div><div><div>Variable: o3</div><div>Type: float</div><div>Total Size: 279465984 bytes</div><div> 69866496 values</div><div>Number of Dimensions: 4</div><div>Dimensions and sizes: [time | 8] x [lev | 42] x [lat | 361] x [lon | 576]</div><div>Coordinates:</div><div> time: [0..1260]</div><div> lev: [1000..0.1000000014901161]</div><div> lat: [ -90.. 90]</div><div> lon: [-180..179.375]</div><div>Number Of Attributes: 11</div><div> long_name : ozone_mass_mixing_ratio</div><div> units : kg kg-1</div><div> _FillValue : 1e+15</div><div> missing_value : 1e+15</div><div> fmissing_value : 1e+15</div><div> scale_factor : 1</div><div> add_offset : 0</div><div> standard_name : ozone_mass_mixing_ratio</div><div> vmax : 1e+15</div><div> vmin : -1e+15</div><div> valid_range : ( -1e+15, 1e+15 )</div></div><div>------------------------------<wbr>---------------------------</div></div>
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