<div dir="ltr">Hi MM,<div>In short: No. I wouldn't even know where to recommend you start, and there is no official support for backporting NCL advancements to previous NCL versions. The far easiest solution is to ask the systems administrators to upgrade NCL to the current version. </div><div>Best,</div><div>Adam </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 4:09 PM MM Ali <<a href="mailto:mmali110@gmail.com" target="_blank">mmali110@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi Adam,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I have access to the Florida State University computer systems (I am in India) and all the systems there have 6.0.0 version. Is it possible to modify the code so that it runs on this version?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Ali</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 10:32 PM Adam Phillips <<a href="mailto:asphilli@ucar.edu" target="_blank">asphilli@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello,<div>I ran your script using version 6.6.2. I didn't get any error messages, and it produced the attached plot. NCL v6.0.0 is almost 8 years old, I highly recommend updating to the newest version (6.6.2). </div><div>Adam</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 5:18 AM MM Ali <<a href="mailto:mmali110@gmail.com" target="_blank">mmali110@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I took a program of Dr. Petroula modified by Prof. Thomas from ncl-talk and slightly modified to suit my requirements (attached below). The program plots the continent and the legent without any contour. The error is:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">fatal:Cannot create triangular mesh: supply additional resources or build with Triangle package</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">fatal:ContourPlotDraw: draw error</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">warning:WorkstationDeactivate: workstation not active or not opened</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">The data set I used is attached. The ncl version I use is 6.0.0.0</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">It would be great if someone can help me in solving this problem.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Ali</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">The Code (also attached):</div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl"</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_csm.ncl"</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/contributed.ncl"</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">begin</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> fname = "tst.txt"</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> n_col = numAsciiCol(fname)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> n_var = n_col</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> n_pt = numAsciiRow(fname)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> dataf = asciiread(fname,(/n_pt,n_var/),"float")</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">;---read longitude</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> lon = dataf (:,0)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">;---read latitude</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> lat = dataf (:,1)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">;---read data for presence of convective cloud</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> storm = dataf (:,2)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">;---define the workstation (plot type and name)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> wks = gsn_open_wks("png","plot_field")</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">;--set resources</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> wks = gsn_open_wks("x11","ce")</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> res = True</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> res@gsnMaximize = True</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> res@mpDataBaseVersion = "MediumRes" ;-- map resolution</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> res@mpMinLonF = min(lon)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> res@mpMaxLonF = max(lon)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> res@mpMinLatF = min(lat)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> res@mpMaxLatF = max(lat)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> res@sfXArray = lon</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> res@sfYArray = lat</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> res@cnFillOn = True ; Turn on contour fill.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> res@cnLinesOn = False ; Turn off contour lines</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">;-- create the contour map plot</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">; plot = gsn_csm_contour_map(wks,storm,res) ; create a default plot</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> contour = gsn_csm_contour_map(wks,storm,res)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">end</font></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_8473518492133837372gmail-m_5956800273552736282gmail-m_4899153884748789392gmail-m_-685727581011290062gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b>Dr. MM Ali</b></div><div dir="ltr">Formerly:<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div>Scientist G & Group Director</div><div>NRSC/ISRO</div><div>email: <a href="mailto:mmali110@gmail.com" target="_blank">mmali110@gmail.com</a></div><div> <a href="mailto:mmali@coaps.fsu.edu" target="_blank">mmali@coaps.fsu.edu</a></div><div>Mob: +91 9949045110</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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