<div dir="ltr"><br>Hi,<br><br>You have a rather complex script that computes many derived variables. While it looks like the incoming data has proper coordinate variables, and it looks like you've taken care to call copy_VarCoords() in places, the root cause of the error message is that something doesn't have the coordinate variables expected by shapefile_mask_data(). Do you know which of the 48 calls to shapefile_mask_data() is throwing the error? Perhaps place a printVarSummary() on that variable before the call to make sure the variable is what you think it is.<br><br>I would note that shapefile_mask_data() has very specific requirements for coordinate variables. This is from the comments embedded in the source code:<br><br>  - If a rectilinear grid, then "data" must have coordinate arrays<br>;    attached. <br>;  - If a curvilinear grid, then "data" must have the special lat2d <br>;    and lon2d attributes attached.<br>;  - If a unstructured grid, then "data"must have the special lat1d <br>;    and lon1d attributes attached.<br><br><br>And to be more specific, the section of code that throws the error message is below.<br><br>Finally, the script looks like much of it is copy-paste construction -- repetitive code for each derived variable. Perhaps one thing to try is to lift just the code associated with the problem variable out into a separate test script and see what it takes to get that working.<br><br>Good luck,<br>Rick<br><br> - - - - - - - - <br><br>"data" is the first parameter to shapefile_mask_data():<br><span style="font-family:monospace"><br>  grid_type = ""<br>  if(rank.eq.2.and.\<br>     isdimnamed(data,0).and.iscoord(data,data!0).and.\<br>     isdimnamed(data,1).and.iscoord(data,data!1)) then<br>    lat1d = ndtooned(conform_dims(dims,data&$data!0$,0))<br>    lon1d = ndtooned(conform_dims(dims,data&$data!1$,1))<br>    grid_type = "rectilinear"<br>  else if(rank.eq.2.and.all(isatt(data,(/"lat2d","lon2d"/)))) then<br>;---Curvilinear<br>    lat1d = ndtooned(data@lat2d)<br>    lon1d = ndtooned(data@lon2d)<br>    if(product(dims).eq.dimsizes(lat1d).and.\<br>       product(dims).eq.dimsizes(lon1d)) then<br>      grid_type = "curvilinear"<br>    end if<br>  else if(rank.eq.1.and.all(isatt(data,(/"lat1d","lon1d"/)))) then<br>;---Unstructured<br>    lat1d = data@lat1d<br>    lon1d = data@lon1d<br>    if(dims.eq.dimsizes(lat1d).and.\<br>       product(dims).eq.dimsizes(lon1d)) then<br>      grid_type = "unstructured"<br>    end if<br>  end if<br>  end if<br>  end if<br><br>  if(grid_type.eq."") then<br>    print("shapefile_mask_data: Error: not a valid rectilinear, curvilinear, or unstructured grid")<br>    exit<br>  end if</span><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 10:39 AM Oluwaseun Ilori 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"><div>I've been trying do some Mann-Kendall analysis and to calculate 
coefficient of regression using shapefile of Nigeria using the attached 
script until I got error message saying "<b>shapefile_mask_data: Error: not a valid rectilinear, curvilinear, or unstructured grid</b>"
 I have searched for help but could not find any. Since all my inputs 
data are similar, I also attached output of ncl_filedump of one input since ncdump keeps giving me unknown file form.</div><div><br></div><div>thanks for your reply<font color="#888888"><br></font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 4:47 PM Rick Brownrigg <<a href="mailto:brownrig@ucar.edu" target="_blank">brownrig@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 -- did you perhaps forget the ncdump output?  IOf so, please reply to the group.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 9:33 AM Oluwaseun Ilori 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"><div>Good day  NCL users</div><div><br></div><div>I've been trying do some Mann-Kendall analysis and to calculate coefficient of regression using shapefile of Nigeria using the attached script until I got error message saying "<b>shapefile_mask_data: Error: not a valid rectilinear, curvilinear, or unstructured grid</b>" I have searched for help but could not find any. Since all my inputs data are similar, I also attached output of ncdump of one input.</div><div><br></div><div>thanks for your reply<br></div><div><div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><span style="background-color:rgb(243,243,243)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><i>OLUWASEUN ILORI</i></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><i>M.Tech in Meteorology and climate science</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><i>Phone: +2347031000687 +2348069154213<br></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><i>Federal University of Technology Akure. Nigeria.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><i>Facebook: </i></span><span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hilorywilson" target="_blank"><span><span>http://facebook.com/</span><span></span>hilorywilson</span></a><br></span></div><div>linkedln: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/wilson-ilori-447952108" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/wilson-ilori-447952108</a></div><div>Twitter: HiloryW<br></div><div><span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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