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    <p>Hi Mary</p>
    <p>Maybe I should make it clear in my question.</p>
    <p>wrf_user_getvar is working on 2D variables (in your case T2) for
      multiple files.</p>
    <p>It seems not working on 3D variable (in my example pressures of
      model levels) for multiple files.</p>
    <p>I used the way you used to open multiple wrfout files.</p>
    <p>I can get by using do loop for each file, but it is kind of slow.<br>
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    <p>Thanks</p>
    <p>Sheng-Hung<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/5/2017 6:32 PM, Mary Haley wrote:<br>
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        <div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Sheng-Hung,</div>
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        <div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Using a list
          of files should work with wrf_user_getvar, but you didn't
          indicate how the function was failing, or how you are trying
          to open the files.</div>
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        <div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">It should
          work with something like this:</div>
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          <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace">ncl
              0> fnames = systemfunc("ls -1 wrfout_d01_2008-09-29*")</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace">ncl
              1> print("# of files = " + dimsizes(fnames))</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace">(0) 
                 # of files = 48</font></div>
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              2> a = addfiles(fnames,"r")</font></div>
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              3> t = wrf_user_getvar(a,"T2",-1) </font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace">ncl
              4> printVarSummary(t)</font></div>
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            </font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace">Variable:
              t</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace">Type:
              float</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace">Total
              Size: 7791744 bytes</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> 
                        1947936 values</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace">Number
              of Dimensions: 3</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace">Dimensions
              and sizes:<span style="white-space:pre">  </span>[Time |
              48] x [south_north | 197] x [west_east | 206]</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace">Coordinates: </font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace">Number
              Of Attributes: 6</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> 
              FieldType :<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>104</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> 
              MemoryOrder :<span style="white-space:pre">       </span>XY </font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> 
              description :<span style="white-space:pre">       </span>TEMP at
              2 M</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> 
              units :<span style="white-space:pre">     </span>K</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> 
              stagger :<span style="white-space:pre">   </span></font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> 
              coordinates :<span style="white-space:pre">       </span>XLONG
              XLAT</font></div>
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              5> </font></div>
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          <div class="gmail_default">--Mary</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 12:08 PM,
          Sheng-Hung Wang <span dir="ltr"><<a
              href="mailto:wang.446@osu.edu" target="_blank"
              moz-do-not-send="true">wang.446@osu.edu</a>></span>
          wrote:<br>
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            .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi<br>
            <br>
            Is there a problem (or bug) for following NCL statement<br>
            <br>
            wrf_P = wrf_user_getvar(a,"pressure",-<wbr>1)<br>
            <br>
            a is multiple wrfout files.<br>
            <br>
            When I changed time=-1 to single time step, the function
            worked. It didn't work on multiple time steps.<br>
            <br>
            Thanks<br>
            <br>
            Sheng-Hung<br>
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             Polar Meteorology Group<br>
             Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center<br>
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 Sheng-Hung Wang, PhD
 Polar Meteorology Group
 Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center
 The Ohio State University
 1090 Carmack Road, Columbus, Ohio 43210
 Phone: (614) 292-1060
 Fax:   (614) 292-4697
 email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:wang.446@osu.edu">wang.446@osu.edu</a>
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