<div dir="ltr">If you know when these values occur within the time series, then you can index them quite easily.<div><br></div><div>Why don't you use wrf_user_getvar and then the wrf interpolation program.</div><div><br></div><div>If you want them at a specific point, I think you know how to do this. There is also a get location program</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/WRF_arw/wrf_user_ll_to_ij.shtml">https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/WRF_arw/wrf_user_ll_to_ij.shtml</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Barry</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:55 AM zilore mumba <<a href="mailto:zmumba@yahoo.com">zmumba@yahoo.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><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div></div>
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<div dir="ltr">Sorry Rick I put in a surface variable T2 which only 3 coordinates, so I put <span>"x = a[:]->T2(0,{-15},{30})"</span>. Now I am getting error of coordinates west-east and south-north <span>not having associated coordinate variables. I have seen this error before. I will find out how to get out of it </span><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div>
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On Sunday, April 19, 2020, 11:53:33 PM GMT+2, Rick Brownrigg <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:brownrig@ucar.edu" target="_blank">brownrig@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:
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<div dir="ltr">Thanks Rick, that is close. The error am getting now is:</div><div dir="ltr"> <span>fatal:Number of subscripts on rhs do not match number of dimensions of aggregated cat type variable, (4) Subscripts used, (3) Subscripts expected</span><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div>
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On Sunday, April 19, 2020, 10:17:12 PM GMT+2, Rick Brownrigg <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:brownrig@ucar.edu" target="_blank">brownrig@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:
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