[ncl-talk] non-alphanumeric variables in ncl-6.3.0

[Dennis Shea]

Hello,

Could you please send us a clean version of your script and a sample data file?

ftp ftp.cgd.ucar.edu
anonymous
email
cd incoming
put ...
put ...
quit

Then, after successful transfer, send us the names of the files you transferred.

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If you can make them available via the WWW that would be fine also.


THX
D

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 8:02 AM, kblock <karoline.block at uni-leipzig.de> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have encountered a problem in ncl version 6.3.0 in reading
> non-alphanumeric variables from a net-cdf file (File format : netCDF4
> ZIP), which is not occuring in ncl version 6.0.0.
> I have tested it using the same script and the same data on different
> servers with these two ncl version installed.
>
> In the documentation it says you should read in like this:
> x = f->$"ice cream+oreo-cookies...yummy!"$
>
> But this only works in the older version!
> For ncl 6.3.0 it is advisable to change the variable name before reading
> in the file (e.g. with cdo chname,oldvar,newvar ifile ofile).
> Otherwise it seems that something similar as in asciiread will happen,
> that for the float and double type variables , the string 'nan' is read
> as a valid numerical value.
>
> With ncl-6.3.0, the single-dimensioned float variable "/var0.4" was
> mostly read in as "-nan",
> while with ncl-6.0.0 the same variable (now without the "/",even though
> it didn't matter for the reading in) was read in perfectly fine with the
> same command:
> x = f->$"var0.4"$
>
> After I changed the variable name to "var04" both versions work just fine!
>
> I like to encourage the NCL Team to look at this and hopefully fix this
> problem!
> Users are strongly advised to keep this in mind when reading data!
>
> Cheers,
> Karoline
>
>
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