<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><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>Dear NCL-experts,</div><div><br></div><div>I am plotting a shapefile based on the basic commands provided in the NCL webpage.</div><div><br></div><div>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font size="1" style="" color="#ff0000">ncl 1> load = "../shapefile_utils.ncl"<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space" style=""> </span></font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font size="1" color="#ff0000">ncl 2> sname</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font size="1" color="#ff0000">ncl 2> sname="PHL_climatetype.shp"</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font size="1" color="#ff0000">ncl 3> print_shapefile_info(sname)</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font size="1" color="#ff0000">(0)</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font size="1" color="#ff0000">(0)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Filename: "PHL_climatetype.shp"</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font size="1" color="#ff0000">(0)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Geometry type: polygon</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font size="1" color="#ff0000">(0)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span># of features: 4</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font size="1" color="#ff0000">(0)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Min/max lat:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>4.59/<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>21.12</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font size="1" color="#ff0000">(0)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Min/max lon:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>116.93/ 126.61</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font size="1" color="#ff0000">(0)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Variable names and their types:</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font size="1" color="#ff0000">(0)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>geometry : integer</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font size="1" color="#ff0000">(0)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>segments : integer</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font size="1" color="#ff0000">(0)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>x : double</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font size="1" color="#ff0000">(0)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>y : double</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font size="1" color="#ff0000">(0)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Id : integer</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font size="1" style="" color="#ff0000">(0)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space" style=""> </span>Type : double</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font size="1">(0)</font></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font size="1"><br></font></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font size="1"><br></font></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">I want to do the following:</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">[1] The "Type" in the shapefile are numbers 1 to 4. </span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">I would like to select only Type 2 and plot the result.</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">My question is, is it possible to select only the Type 2 in the shapefile and plot it using the plot_shapefile(sname) command?</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">[2] I want to save the selected shapefile in [1] as an independent shapefile. How can I do this in NCL?</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">I'll appreciate any advise on this.</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Sincerely,</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Lyndz</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>