<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Andrew,<div><br></div>Here are some debugging tips.  You said you get a fatal error on this line:<br><br>filevardef(fo, "peaks", typeof(names_14ers), getvardims(names_14ers))<div><br></div><div>This uses functions within a function.  This is usually okay.  However, it is a little complicated, and gets in the way of debugging.</div><div><br></div><div>So break out typeof and getvardims into separate lines.  Assign each to a unique variable.  Print each variable before calling filevardef.  Then call filevardef using the new variables as calling arguments, not functions within a function.</div><div><br></div><div>Also for debugging and conversing with the mailing list, reduce a copy of your program down to the absolute minimum to trigger the error.  Keep only addfile and the minimum necessary to get to that filevardef statement.  Then call exit immediately after filevardef.</div><div><br></div><div>If the source of the fatal error does not become obvious, then please post a complete copy of the reduced test script, and a complete copy of the console output from the test script.  In-line or attachments of type *.txt work best.</div><div><br></div><div>--Dave</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 8:56 PM Andrew Kren - NOAA Affiliate via ncl-talk <<a href="mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu">ncl-talk@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"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000">Hi ncl-talk,</font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000">I'm writing a number of variables to netcdf-4. The variables are a mix of intengers, strings, and floats so I thought netcdf4 is the right way to go.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000">I followed instructions on the ncl support page, but appear to be getting issues with writing the data.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000"><b>I have this written below. More is written after it but it fails before getting to the rest.</b></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div>





<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">filo = "/home/arsenic1/scripts/gfs/" + utc_start + "z/<a href="http://saved_14er_variables_gfs_new.nc" target="_blank">saved_14er_variables_gfs_new.nc</a>"</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">;===================================================================</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:18px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></font></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>setfileoption("nc", "Format",<span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>"NetCDF4")</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>fon = filo</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>system("/bin/rm -f " + fon) ; remove if exists</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>fo = addfile(fon, "c")</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:18px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></font></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">;===================================================================</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">; explicitly declare file definition mode. Improve efficiency.</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">;===================================================================</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>setfileoption(fo,"DefineMode",True)</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:18px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></font></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>; create global attributes of the file</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>;===================================================================</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>fAtt <span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space">              </span>= True<span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space">            </span>; assign file attributes</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>fAtt@title <span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space">        </span>= "GFS 14er Data File"</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>fAtt@source_file <span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>= filo</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>fAtt@Conventions <span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>= "None"</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>fAtt@creation_date = systemfunc ("date")</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>fileattdef(fo, fAtt)<span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">       </span> <span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>; copy file attributes</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:18px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></font></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">;===================================================================</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">; predefine the coordinate variables and their dimensionality</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">; Note: to get an UNLIMITED record dimension, we set the dimensionality</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">; to -1 (or the actual size) and set the dimension name to True.</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">;===================================================================</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>dimNames = (/"peaks","time"/)</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>dimSizes = (/dimsizes(names_14ers),dimsizes(fcst_hr)/)</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>dimUnlim = (/False,False/)</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>filedimdef(fo, dimNames, dimSizes, dimUnlim)</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:18px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></font></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>mtim = dimsizes(fcst_hr)</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>mname = dimsizes(names_14ers)</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>chunkSizes = (/ mtim, mname/)</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>filechunkdimdef(fo,dimNames,chunkSizes,dimUnlim)</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:18px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></font></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>grpnames = (/"grp1", "group2", "g3"/)</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>filegrpdef(fo,grpnames)</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:18px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></font></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>; predefine the the dimensionality of the variables to be written out</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>;===================================================================</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>; Here we are using NCL functions to facilitate defining</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>; each variable's dimension name(s) and type.</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>;===================================================================</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><span style="background-color:rgb(106,168,79)">filevardef(fo, "peaks", typeof(names_14ers), getvardims(names_14ers))</span></font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>filevarattdef(fo,"peaks", names_14ers) <span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space">                  </span>; copy time attributes</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>fo->peaks <span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>= (/names_14ers/)</font></span></p><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The program gives a fatal error at the green line, and I'm not sure why. My actual dims of my variables are name by time so I'm confused. When I do an ncl_filedump on the file, I get this message in the report:</span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div>





<p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>ERROR: Invalid _NCProperties attribute</b></font></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Any help on this is much appreciated, as I have tried a number of different ways to rectify this.</font></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Thanks!</font></span></p></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000"> </font></div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000">-- <br></font><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-5179150834818511397gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Andrew Kren<br>Assistant Scientist<br>University of Miami CIMAS - NOAA/AOML</div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000">Global Observing Systems Analysis (GOSA) Group</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000">NOAA/AOML Quantitative Observing System Assessment Program (QOSAP)</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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