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<div>Dear Dennis</div><div> You are right; I should include output from 'ncdump -h'. Although I'd attached some files themselves, but including output from 'ncdump -h' was necessary.</div><div> About the name of files, "<font color="#5b8828">L.MS</font>" is correct, as it could be seen in attachments of my first email.</div><div><br></div><div>Finally your comment about</div><div><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="2" style="background-color: rgb(221, 144, 47);"> prc <b style="">:=</b> prc(ncl_join|:, lat|:, lon|:)</font></pre>was really helpful and removed error. It helped me a lot. Thanks for your guidance.</div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely</div><div>Ehsan</div><div><br></div>
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On Friday, December 8, 2017, 5:19:51 AM GMT+3:30, Dennis Shea <shea@ucar.edu> wrote:
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This is very inefficient.,<br clear="none"></font><br clear="none"><div><div><br clear="none"><font size="2" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"> diri = "path/" ; input directory</font></font><div><font size="2" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"> files = <b>systemfunc</b>("cd "+diri+"; ls 3B-DAY-LMS.MRG. 3IMERG.201704*.nc") ; file paths<br clear="none"></font><br clear="none"></div><div><font size="2" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"> f = <b>addfiles</b>(diri+files,"r")</font><br clear="none"><font size="2" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong> ListSetType</strong> (f, "join") <br clear="none"></font></div><div><font size="2" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"> prc = f[:]-></font><span style="font-size:small;font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">precipitationCal<br clear="none"></span></div><div><span style="font-size:small;font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"> <b>printVarSummary</b>(prc)<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></span></div><div><span style="font-size:small;font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">Likely, you will have something like: </span><span style="font-size:small;font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br clear="none"> </span><br clear="none"><pre>[<b>ncl_join</b> | ?] x [lon | 3480] x [lat | 61]<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></pre><pre>Now reorder, use the <b>:=</b> 'overwrite' syntax<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></pre><pre> prc <b>:=</b> prc(ncl_join|:, lat|:, lon|:)<br clear="none"></pre><pre> printVarSummary(prc)<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></pre><pre>If there is no 'time' within the file, then you will have to parse the 'files' variable to extract the yyyymm... information<br clear="none"></pre><pre>str_get_cols or str_get_field<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></pre><pre>Good luck<br clear="none"></pre><pre><br clear="none"></pre><pre><br clear="none"> <br clear="none"></pre><span style="font-size:small;font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div><span style="font-size:small;font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></span></div><div><span style="font-size:small;font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br clear="none"> <br clear="none"></span></div></div></div></div><div class="yiv8470986482gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv8470986482gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 5:56 PM, Ehsan Taghizadeh <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:ehsantaghizadeh@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:ehsantaghizadeh@yahoo.com">ehsantaghizadeh@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv8470986482gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="yiv8470986482yqt7423197310" id="yiv8470986482yqt39627"><div><div style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div>Dear Karin</div><div>I think so, all files have the same dimensions and names.</div><div>I examined one by one files and all shows same output for following lines</div><div><font size="2"> prc2 = f->precipitationCal(lat | :, lon | :)<br clear="none"> printVarSummary(prc2)</font><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Output is:<br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><font size="2">Type: float<br clear="none">Total Size: 28304 bytes<br clear="none"> 7076 values<br clear="none">Number of Dimensions: 2<br clear="none">Dimensions and sizes: [lat | 61] x [lon | 116]<br clear="none">Coordinates:<br clear="none"> lat: [34.25..40.25]<br clear="none"> lon: [40.05..51.55]</font><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>
<div><br clear="none"></div><div>However if it helps I could attach these files.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Sincerely</div><span class="yiv8470986482HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span><div>Ehsan<br clear="none"></div><div><div class="yiv8470986482h5">
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On Thursday, December 7, 2017, 2:22:35 PM GMT, Karin Meier-Fleischer <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:meier-fleischer@dkrz.de" target="_blank" href="mailto:meier-fleischer@dkrz.de">meier-fleischer@dkrz.de</a>> wrote:
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Hi Ehsan,<br clear="none">
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the syntax for multiple files is correct<br clear="none">
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prc = f[:]->precipitationCal(lat|:, lon|:)<br clear="none">
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Are you sure that all files have the same dimensions and names?<br clear="none">
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<div class="yiv8470986482m_2171383976535622848yiv3037120654moz-cite-prefix">Am 07.12.17 um 14:53 schrieb Ehsan
Taghizadeh:<br clear="none">
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<div>Dear Karin</div>
<div>Thank you so much for your nice reply. However for</div>
<div><span style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;"> prc = f[:]->precipitationCal</span><br clear="none">
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printVarSummary(prc)</span><br clear="none">
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<div>I got:</div>
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<div> <font size="2">Copyright (C) 1995-2017 - All Rights
Reserved</font></div>
<div><font size="2"> University Corporation for Atmospheric
Research</font></div>
<div><font size="2"> NCAR Command Language Version 6.4.0</font></div>
<div><font size="2"> The use of this software is governed by a
License Agreement.</font></div>
<div><font size="2"> See <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv8470986482m_2171383976535622848yiv3037120654moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/</a> for more
details.</font></div>
<div><font size="2">warning:Aggregated dimension coordinate
values are non-monotonic; check aggregated file ordering</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Variable: prc</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Type: float</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Total Size: 849120 bytes</font></div>
<div><font size="2"> 212280 values</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Number of Dimensions: 2</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Dimensions and sizes: [lon | 3480] x
[lat | 61]</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Coordinates:</font></div>
<div><font size="2"> lon: [40.05..51.55]</font></div>
<div><font size="2"> lat: [34.25..40.25]</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Number Of Attributes: 6</font></div>
<div><font size="2"> units : mm</font></div>
<div><font size="2"> long_name : Daily accumulated
precipitation (combined microwave-IR) estimate</font></div>
<div><font size="2"> coordinates : lat lon</font></div>
<div><font size="2"> _FillValue : -9999.9</font></div>
<div><font size="2"> origname : precipitationCal</font></div>
<div><font size="2"> fullnamepath : /precipitationCal</font></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">In fact for one file, I don't have any
problem and following lines work correctly:</span><br clear="none">
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</span><div><font size="2"> f = addfile(filess,"r")</font></div>
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f->precipitationCal(lat | :, lon | :)</font><br clear="none">
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<div style="font-size:16px;">however for multiple files I
counter problem. I attached 3 files which I want to open.</div>
<div style="font-size:16px;">As Karin mentioned the problem
is related to "Dimenstions and sizes". So how could I
point to a variable and simultaneous reorder (lat, lon)
dimension in case of multiple files?</div>
<div style="font-size:16px;">I mean what is the form of</div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);"><font size="2"> f = addfile(filess,"r")</font></div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);"><font size="2"> prc =
f->precipitationCal(lat | :, lon | :)</font></div>
for multiple files?</div>
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<div style="font-size:16px;">Again I'll be thankful for any
help.</div>
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<div style="font-size:16px;">Sincerely</div>
<div style="font-size:16px;">Ehsan</div>
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<div> On Thursday, December 7, 2017, 4:51:40 PM GMT+3:30,
Karin Meier-Fleischer <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv8470986482m_2171383976535622848yiv3037120654moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" ymailto="mailto:meier-fleischer@dkrz.de" target="_blank" href="mailto:meier-fleischer@dkrz.de"><meier-fleischer@dkrz.de></a>
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<div> Hi Ehsan,<br clear="none">
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please, have a look at your data first. Do<br clear="none">
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<span style="font-size:small;font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"> prc =
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</span>to see what dimension names precipitationCal
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um 12:18 schrieb Ehsan Taghizadeh:<br clear="none">
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<div><font face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2">Hi, I want to open multiple
netcdf files. Also I had to change
dimesion of variable (</font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font size="1">precipitationCal(lat
| :, lon | :)</font></span><font size="2">), but I got an error
(fatal:(lat) is not a dimension name in
variable (lon), could not determine
dimension number). What should I do?</font></font></div>
<div><font face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2">Following lines are simple code.</font></font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"> diri = "path/" ; input
directory</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"> files = systemfunc("ls
"+diri+"3B-DAY-L.MS.MRG. 3IMERG.201704*.nc")
; file paths</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"> f = addfiles(files,"r")</font></div>
<div><span style="font-size:small;font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"> prc =
f[:]->precipitationCal(lat | :, lon | :)
; read precipitation from all files</span><br clear="none">
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<div>Sincerely</div>
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