<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Barry,</div><div>How about using where function: supposing that, z_plane, threshold, and prob_b_24  all have same dimension sizes, then:</div><div>
<b><span class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail-s2" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(224,228,9)">prob</span><span class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">_b_24 = where(
<span class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">z_plane.ge.threshold</span>,

 </span><span class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail-s2" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(224,228,9)">prob</span><span class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">_b_24+1</span>, prob_b_24)</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>NOTE, this is untested so please make sure it works the way you would expect it to be.</b></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Rashed<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br> 


</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 2:26 AM Barry Lynn 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">Hello:<div><br></div><div>I've been doing this for a long time, and am wondering if there is a way to speed up this kind of array checking for exceedance values.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you.</div><div><br></div><div>





<p class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail-Apple-converted-space">   </span>do j = 0,dims2d(0)-1</span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail-Apple-converted-space">   </span>do i = 0,dims2d(1)-1</span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail-Apple-converted-space">    </span>if (z_plane(j,i).ge.threshold(j,i))then</span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail-Apple-converted-space">     </span></span><span class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail-s2" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(224,228,9)">prob</span><span class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">_b_24(j,i) = </span><span class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail-s2" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(224,228,9)">prob</span><span class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">_b_24(j,i)+1</span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail-Apple-converted-space">    </span>end if</span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail-Apple-converted-space">   </span>end do</span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail-Apple-converted-space">   </span>end do</span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_9102245736450442128gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Barry H. Lynn, Ph.D<div><div>Senior Associate Scientist, Lecturer,</div><div><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">The Institute of the Earth Science, </span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, </span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel </span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"></div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Tel: 972 547 231 170</span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Fax: (972)-25662581</span></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><br></span></div><div>C.E.O, Weather It Is, LTD<br>Weather and Climate Focus<br><a href="http://weather-it-is.com" target="_blank">http://weather-it-is.com</a><br>Jerusalem, Israel<br>Local: 02 930 9525<br>Cell: 054 7 231 170<br>Int-IS: x972 2 930 9525<br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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