<div dir="ltr">Thank you to all.<div><br></div><div>Karin's approach worked fine. </div><div><br></div><div>I wasn't aware that there were commands "all" and "any" and "all."  Very useful!</div><div><br></div><div><br><font color="#3333ff"><tt>if(all(ismissing(ratio_hr))) then</tt><tt><br></tt><tt>   continue</tt><tt><br></tt><tt>end if</tt></font><br><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 12:49 PM Karin Meier-Fleischer <<a href="mailto:meier-fleischer@dkrz.de">meier-fleischer@dkrz.de</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 bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
    Hi all,<br>
    <br>
    you can run a simple test to see if a variable has missing values.<br>
    <br>
    Assume topo is the name of the variable then<br>
    <tt><font color="#3333ff"><br>
        printVarSummary(topo)</font></tt><tt><br>
    </tt><tt><br>
    </tt><tt><font color="#3333ff">n = num(.not. ismissing(topo))<br>
        print("---> Number of missing values: "+n)<br>
        <br>
        if(any(ismissing(topo))) then<br>
           print("---> data contains missing values")<br>
        elseif(all(ismissing(topo))) then<br>
           print("---> data contains all missing values")<br>
        elseif(.not. ismissing(topo)) then<br>
           print("---> data contains no missing values")<br>
        end if</font></tt><tt><br>
    </tt><br>
    NCL returns something like <br>
    <br>
    <font color="#3333ff"><tt>Variable: topo</tt><tt><br>
      </tt><tt>Type: float</tt><tt><br>
      </tt><tt>Total Size: 1036800 bytes</tt><tt><br>
      </tt><tt>            259200 values</tt><tt><br>
      </tt><tt>Number of Dimensions: 2</tt><tt><br>
      </tt><tt>Dimensions and sizes:    [lat | 360] x [lon | 720]</tt><tt><br>
      </tt><tt>Coordinates: </tt><tt><br>
      </tt><tt>            lat: [-89.75..89.75]</tt><tt><br>
      </tt><tt>            lon: [-179.75..179.75]</tt><tt><br>
      </tt><tt>Number Of Attributes: 3</tt><tt><br>
      </tt><tt>  units :    m</tt><tt><br>
      </tt><tt>  _FillValue :    -9e+33</tt><tt><br>
      </tt><tt>  missing_value :    -9e+33</tt><tt><br>
      </tt><tt>(0)    ---> Number of missing values: 85635</tt><tt><br>
      </tt><tt>(0)    ---> data contains missing values</tt></font><br>
    <br>
    -Karin<br>
    <br>
    <div>Am 10.01.20 um 11:27 schrieb Rashed
      Mahmood:<br>
    </div>
    <blockquote type="cite">
      
      <div dir="ltr">
        <div>Hi Barry,</div>
        <div>I think in your case, Karin's suggestion would work best.
          Just make sure that the variable "
          <span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="georgia, serif">ratio_hr</font></span>
          " has _FillValue attribute assigned to it.</div>
        <div>Cheers,</div>
        <div>Rashed<br>
        </div>
      </div>
      <br>
      <div class="gmail_quote">
        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 2:18
          AM Barry Lynn <<a href="mailto:barry.h.lynn@gmail.com" target="_blank">barry.h.lynn@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">Hi Rashed:
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>Thank you for your input (and to Beata).</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>I need to check all values; if some are not missing,
              then I want to execute the loop.</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>I will try the various suggestions and return.</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>Have a nice weekend,</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>Barry</div>
          </div>
          <br>
          <div class="gmail_quote">
            <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at
              12:09 PM Rashed Mahmood <<a href="mailto:rashidcomsis@gmail.com" target="_blank">rashidcomsis@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>I think there is some logical issue(s) in your if
                  statements:</div>
                <div>Issues:</div>
                <div>1)  <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">if(CL(n).eq.CL@_FillValue)then
                    ; This would not work because the "@_FillValue"
                    attribute cannot be used inside if statements, I
                    think. You can define a missing value variable
                    before hand, e.g:</span></div>
                <div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></div>
                <div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><br>
                  </span></div>
                <div><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">missV
                      = CL@_FillValue</span></span></div>
                <div><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">print(missV)</span></span></div>
                <div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">if(CL(n).eq.missV)then</span></span></span></div>
                <div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">...<br>
                      </span></span></span></div>
                <div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br>
                      </span></span></span></div>
                <div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">2)</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">if(all(ismissing(CL)))then
                          : For this statement since you are asking "if
                          ALL Values  of CL are missing which might not
                          be the case since some values would be valid.
                          <br>
                        </span></span></span></span></div>
                <div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><br>
                        </span></span></span></span></div>
                <div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Does
                          your variable CL has _FillValue attribute
                          assigned? What is printVarSummary(CL) suggest?</span></span></span></span></div>
                <div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><br>
                        </span></span></span></span></div>
                <div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>The simplest
                              statement would be( if CL has "_FillValue"
                              attribute assigned to it)</b></span>:</span></span></span></span></div>
                <div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><br>
                        </span></span></span></span></div>
                <div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><b><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"></span></b></span></span></span></span></div>
                <div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><b><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">if(ismissing(CL(n)))then</span></b><br>
                        </span></span></span></span></div>
                <div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> 
                          continue</span></span></span></span></div>
                <div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">else</span></span></span></span></div>
                <div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> ...</span></span></span></span></div>
                <div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">end
                          if</span></span></span></span></div>
                <div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><br>
                        </span></span></span></span></div>
                <div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">hope
                          that helps.</span></span></span></span></div>
                <div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Rashed<br>
                        </span>
                      </span></span>
                  </span></div>
                <div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><br>
                  </span></div>
                <div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><br>
                  </span></div>
                <div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><br>
                  </span></div>
                <div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> <br>
                  </span></div>
                <div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><br>
                  </span>
                </div>
              </div>
              <br>
              <div class="gmail_quote">
                <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 10, 2020
                  at 1:21 AM Beáta Szabó-Takács 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 bgcolor="white" lang="HU">
                    <div>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Dear
                          Karin and Barry,</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">I
                          checked different ways to skip the
                          _FillValues. Here is my brief script:</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">begin</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> 
                          input = addfile("NetCDF_2017_07_18.nc","r")</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> 
                          CL=input->cLayer1     
                                                                            ;First
                          cloud layer, its _FillValue is -9900</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> 
                          CL1 = new((/5400/), typeof(CL), 1e20)</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> 
                          CL2 = new((/5400/), typeof(CL), 1e20)</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> 
                          CL3 = new((/5400/), typeof(CL), 1e20)</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> 
                          CL4 = new((/5400/), typeof(CL), 1e20)</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">  
                          do n=1,5399</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">    
                                  if(CL(n).eq.CL@_FillValue)then</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">      
                                     continue</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">     
                                 else</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">      
                                    CL1(n) = CL(n)</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">     
                                  end if</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">    
                                 if(all(ismissing(CL)))then</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">       
                                     continue</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">     
                               else</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">       
                                    CL2(n) = CL(n)</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">     
                               end if</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">   
                                  if(CL(n).ne.CL@_FillValue)then</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">       
                                    CL3(n) = CL(n)</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">   
                                  end if</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">      
                              if(.not.ismissing(CL(n)))then</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">       
                                  CL4(n) = CL(n)</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">     
                               end if</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">  
                          end do</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">  
                          print(CL1(1:500))</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">  
                          print(CL2(1:500))</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">  
                          print(CL3(1:500))</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">  
                          print(CL4(1:500))</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">end</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Unfortunately,
                          none of the if statements skip the
                          _FillValues. I do not understand why.</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Beata</span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p>
                      <div>
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                          <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext" lang="EN-US"> ncl-talk [mailto:<a href="mailto:ncl-talk-bounces@ucar.edu" target="_blank">ncl-talk-bounces@ucar.edu</a>]
                              <b>On Behalf Of </b>Karin Meier-Fleischer
                              via ncl-talk<br>
                              <b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 10, 2020 9:26
                              AM<br>
                              <b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu" target="_blank">ncl-talk@ucar.edu</a><br>
                              <b>Subject:</b> Re: [ncl-talk] If
                              statements and Fill_Values</span></p>
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                      <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">Hi,<br>
                        <br>
                        what about<br>
                        <br>
                        <tt><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(51,51,255)">if(all(ismissing(ratio_hr)))
                            then</span></tt><span><br>
                          <tt>   continue</tt><br>
                          <tt>end if</tt></span><br>
                        <br>
                        -Karin</p>
                      <div>
                        <p class="MsoNormal">Am 10.01.20 um 09:17
                          schrieb Barry Lynn via ncl-talk:</p>
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                          <p class="MsoNormal">Hi:</p>
                          <div>
                            <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                          </div>
                          <div>
                            <p class="MsoNormal">I will give it a try.</p>
                          </div>
                          <div>
                            <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                          </div>
                          <div>
                            <p class="MsoNormal">In the meantime, I am
                              wondering why you suggest the ne, rather
                              than the equal to with a continue and an
                              else?</p>
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                        <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                        <div>
                          <div>
                            <p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at
                              9:52 AM Beáta Szabó-Takács <<a href="mailto:szabo.b@czechglobe.cz" target="_blank">szabo.b@czechglobe.cz</a>>
                              wrote:</p>
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                          <blockquote style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);border-style:none none none solid;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm">
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                                <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Dear
                                    Barry,</span></p>
                                <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">The
                                    continue will proceed directly to
                                    the next iteration. Try to skip the
                                    _FillValues by:</span></p>
                                <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p>
                                <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">if(max(<a href="mailto:ratio_hr).ne.ratio_hr@_FillValue.and" target="_blank">ratio_hr).ne.ratio_hr@_FillValue.and</a>.
                                    min(ratio_hr)<a href="mailto:.ne.ratio_hr@_FillValue)then" target="_blank">.ne.ratio_hr@_FillValue)then</a></span></p>
                                <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">statement(s)</span></p>
                                <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">end
                                    if</span></p>
                                <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p>
                                <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">I
                                    hope it solves your issue.</span></p>
                                <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Kind
                                    regards,</span></p>
                                <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Beata</span></p>
                                <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p>
                                <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">
                                    ncl-talk [mailto:<a href="mailto:ncl-talk-bounces@ucar.edu" target="_blank">ncl-talk-bounces@ucar.edu</a>]
                                    <b>On Behalf Of </b>Barry Lynn via
                                    ncl-talk<br>
                                    <b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 10,
                                    2020 7:40 AM<br>
                                    <b>To:</b> ncl-talk <<a href="mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu" target="_blank">ncl-talk@ucar.edu</a>><br>
                                    <b>Subject:</b> [ncl-talk] If
                                    statements and Fill_Values</span></p>
                                <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                                <div>
                                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Hi:</span></p>
                                  <div>
                                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                                  </div>
                                  <div>
                                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">I
                                        am trying to skip a loop where
                                        all the numbers (min/max) are
                                        _FillValues.</span></p>
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                                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                                  </div>
                                  <div>
                                    <p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal"><span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">min=9.96921e+36
                                        </span></span><span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"> 
                                        </span></span><span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">max=9.96921e+36</span></span></p>
                                    <p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal"> </p>
                                    <p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal"><span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">However, I get this error, even though
                                          my if statement is checking
                                          this.</span></span></p>
                                    <p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal"> </p>
                                    <p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal"><span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">fatal:The result of the conditional
                                          expression yields a missing
                                          value. NCL can not determine
                                          branch, see ismissing function</span></span></p>
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                                  <div>
                                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                                  </div>
                                  <div>
                                    <p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal"><span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">  </span></span><span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">if
                                          (max(ratio_hr)<a href="mailto:.eq.ratio_hr@_FillValue.and.min(ratio_hr).eq.ratio_hr@_FillValue)then" target="_blank">.eq.ratio_hr@_FillValue.and.min(ratio_hr).eq.ratio_hr@_FillValue)then</a></span></span></p>
                                    <p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal"><span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">  
                                        </span></span><span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">continue</span></span></p>
                                    <p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal"><span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"> 
                                        </span></span><span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">else</span></span></p>
                                    <div>
                                      <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                                    </div>
                                    <div>
                                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Is
                                          there someway around this?</span></p>
                                    </div>
                                    <div>
                                      <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                                    </div>
                                    <div>
                                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Thank
                                          you</span></p>
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                                    <p class="MsoNormal">--
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                                            <p class="MsoNormal">Barry
                                              H. Lynn, Ph.D</p>
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                                              <div>
                                                <p class="MsoNormal">Senior
                                                  Associate Scientist,
                                                  Lecturer,</p>
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                                                      The Hebrew
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                                                      Jerusalem, <br>
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                                                      Jerusalem 91904,
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                                <p class="MsoNormal">Barry H. Lynn, Ph.D
                                </p>
                                <div>
                                  <div>
                                    <p class="MsoNormal">Senior
                                      Associate Scientist, Lecturer,</p>
                                  </div>
                                  <div>
                                    <div>
                                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">The
                                          Institute of the Earth
                                          Science, <br>
                                          The Hebrew University of
                                          Jerusalem, <br>
                                          Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904,
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