<div dir="ltr">Hi Sara,<div>I cannot speak as to why the error message only occurs when analyzing one WRF file. You can use the printMinMax function to see the range of data that is being entered into the rcm2grid function. You are correct in that you can use mask to mask all areas that are equal to zero. I prefer using a where statement, either setting all areas that are equal to 0 to _FillValue, or by setting those areas to a very small number:</div><div>arr = where(arr.eq.0, 0.0001, arr)   ; set all values that are 0 equal to .0001, leave other values as is</div><div>Note for those values that are now set to .0001 that the resulting division calculation may end up with very large values. </div><div><br></div><div>Hope that helps. If not, please respond to the ncl-talk email list.</div><div>Adam</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 12:28 PM, SARA CORNEJO BUENO <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sarcorne@ucm.es" target="_blank">sarcorne@ucm.es</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!<div>

<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">I run my NCL script, and I got an error:</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">

<em class="m_-2695557446884263644gmail-quotelev2" style="color:rgb(255,119,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">fatal:divide: Division by 0, Can't continue<span> </span></em></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">

<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">I saw in NCL talk, that one way to avoid this is<font color="#000000"><span class="m_-2695557446884263644gmail-quotelev1" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> using the mask function to<font color="#000000" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span> </span><span class="m_-2695557446884263644gmail-quotelev1" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">mask the zero values, </span></font></span></font></span><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">but why does it only occur in one wrf output?Because I use it in minimum pressure calculation and it did't print any error, and, to mask means to modify data and then lose consistency in the res</font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">ults?</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">Thank you in advance!</span></div></div>
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