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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear NCL team,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I have a 1D dataset like below: you can see that I have different number of data for each time step. Now I like to convert this 1d array to a regular 2d array by assigning -999 for those grid points where
 don’t have numbers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">1d array:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">=======================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">2d array: (x=4 data points for each time, y=3 time steps)<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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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">=======================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I have been trying to use function ‘where’ but couldn’t get it working. Can you please advise?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">ID = new ((/3, 4/), “loat”)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">do i = 0, 2 ; time step<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">    ID (i,:) = where(data(:,0) .eq. (i+1), data(:,1), -999) ;; this won’t work because the dimensions on left and right are different (4 vs 9). But if I set a j=0 to 3 for ID (i, j), then I am not sure how
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">end do<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thank you!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Jiali <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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