<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">In the future, it would help if you tell us what you mean by the files being wrong. I had to run your script and look at different variables in order to determine what exactly was wrong.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">It looks your "pmask" variable is all missing in each of the output files.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">It gets calculated correctly with these lines:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">;---Create masked data array </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> pmask = where(oxygen.eq.1,f,f@_FillValue)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> copy_VarMeta(f,pmask)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">But then later, before "pmask" is written to a NetCDF file, it is reset to a 4D array with missing values with this line:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div> pmask=new((/1,1,nlat,nlon/), float)</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">pmask is never repopulated with values, and hence when it is written to the file it is all missing.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">I think what you meant to do was convert pmask to a 4D array, where time and depth each have one dimension, and then copy the 2D pmask to this new 4D pmask array, correct?</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">If so, then instead of the "new" command, you should create a new variable, say "pmask4d", as follows:</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> pmask4d = reshape(pmask,(/1,1,nlat,nlon/))</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> copy_VarAtts(pmask,pmask4d) ; IMPORTANT, YOU MAY WANT TO ADJUST SOME</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> ; ATTRIBUTES BEFORE WRITING TO FILE</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> pmask4d!0 = "time"</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> pmask4d!1 = "depth"</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> pmask4d!2 = "latitude"</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> pmask4d!3 = "longitude"</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> pmask4d&time = time</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> pmask4d&depth = lev</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> pmask4d&latitude = lat</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> pmask4d&longitude = lon</font></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">and then change "pmask" to "pmask4d" in all the code that follows that writes stuff to the file. For example:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><font face="monospace, monospace"> filevardef(fout, "pmask" ,typeof(pmask4d) ,getvardims(pmask4d))</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="monospace, monospace"><br> filevarattdef(fout,"pmask",pmask4d) </font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="monospace, monospace"> </font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="monospace, monospace"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> </span>fout->pmask = (/pmask4d/)</font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I've attached a modified version of your script.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">--Mary</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 5:39 AM Amal Inge <<a href="mailto:amalingenieur89@gmail.com">amalingenieur89@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>i want to have a time series from an ncfile (<a href="http://bbio.nc" target="_blank">bbio.nc</a> attached) for each subarea of a shapefilen(pic and zip attached)</div><div>i tried the script attached newtest.ncl to do the mask and produce ncfile output for each time step</div><div>but i get wrong ncfiles</div><div>could you help please?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div></div><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/file/d/1B0Y5bU6_hMcdYROmP4p-BJoGHUxo9FDH/view?usp=drive_web" style="display:inline-block;max-width:366px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap;text-decoration:none;padding:1px 0;border:none" target="_blank"><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">bbio.nc</span></a><img style="opacity:0.55;float:right;display:none"></div></div>
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