<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Zoe,</div>You can use getfilevarnames to see a list of variables on the file:<div> a = addfile("MOD08_D3.A2018148.061.2018149091056.hdf","r")</div><div>print(getfilevarnames(a))<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/getfilevarnames.shtml">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/getfilevarnames.shtml</a></div><div><br></div><div>I do not see Deep_Blue_Aerosol_Optical_Depth_Mean on this file. I do see Deep_Blue_Aerosol_Optical_Depth_Land_Mean though. </div><div>Adam</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 3:41 PM zoe jacobs via ncl-talk <<a href="mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu" target="_blank">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">Hi all,<div>I need to show AOD (Aerosol Optical Depth) from MODIS, Terra  [ MOD08_D3  ]. Scenic, file I have downloaded is in HDF format, I tried to use script<font color="#000000">  <a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/Scripts/ndvi_1.ncl" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration-line:none;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(244,204,204)" target="_blank">ndvi_1.ncl</a></font><span style="background-color:rgb(244,204,204)"> </span>from <a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/Scripts/ndvi_1.ncl" target="_blank">https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/Scripts/ndvi_1.ncl</a> . My problem is that I cannot find the name of the variable I need, which is ' deep_Blue_Aerosol_optical_deepth_Mean'.</div><div>The file and the name of the variable have been attached. Please, how can I plot AOD, using NCL?</div><div>Regards,</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/1XmKTrqwnV8ug33fSLuXFZtuu5rPuCBPn/view?usp=drive_web" style="display:inline-block;max-width:366px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap;text-decoration:none;padding:1px 0px;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">MOD08_D3.A2018148.061.2018149091056.hdf</span></a><img style="opacity: 0.55; float: right; display: none;"></div><div><br></div></div>
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