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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Hi,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">I am trying to replace every missing value in a netcdf4 file to 1 using NCL.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Unlike netCDF files,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">the method available at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/change_netCDF.shtml" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/change_netCDF.shtml</span></a> does
not work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">I also tried the Dave's solution to "Editing a netcdf4 file" from the nil-talk in 2015 (<a href="http://mailman.ucar.edu/pipermail/ncl-talk/2015-June/003046.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">http://mailman.ucar.edu/pipermail/ncl-talk/2015-June/003046.html</span></a>)
but it did not work either.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">I still get the same error message as they had:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-stretch: normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">fatal:["NclNetCDF4.c":3073]:NclNetCDF4.c: Error in nc_def_var_chunking in file (<a href="http://Nomissing_LIS_HIST_201702081800.d01.nc" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">Nomissing_LIS_HIST_201702081800.d01.nc</span></a>)
for writing, at line: 3073<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-stretch: normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">line 3074 of NclNetCDF4.c: NetCDF: Attempt to define var properties, like deflate, after enddef.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">My code looks like this:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-stretch: normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">a = addfile("<a href="http://Nomissing_LIS_HIST_201702081800.d01.nc" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">Nomissing_LIS_HIST_201702081800.d01.nc</span></a>","w")</span><span style="font-family:Menlo;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-stretch: normal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">; Read in soil moisture</span><span style="font-family:Menlo;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-stretch: normal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black"> x = a->SoilMoist_inst;</span><span style="font-family:Menlo;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-stretch: normal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black"> x_mod = new((/1,4,1200,1200/),"float","No_FillValue")</span><span style="font-family:Menlo;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-stretch: normal;min-height: 20px">
<span style="font-family:Menlo;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-stretch: normal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black"> x = where(ismissing(x), 1, x)</span><span style="font-family:Menlo;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-stretch: normal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black"> x_mod = x</span><span style="font-family:Menlo;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-stretch: normal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black"> a->SoilMoist_inst=(/x_mod/)</span><span style="font-family:Menlo;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:Menlo;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">I wonder if this error has been fixed yet?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Thank you very much.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-stretch: normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Jinwoong Yoo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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