[ncl-talk] printing spi

Guido Cioni guidocioni at gmail.com
Mon Apr 10 06:39:47 MDT 2017


There is a typo in your code. It should be xyLineColors and not xyLineColours.
See here https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/Resources/xy.shtml <https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/Resources/xy.shtml>.

(Look closely at the warning/error messages that you are receiving: most of the times they can help you a lot in identifying the problem)

Hope that helps

Guido Cioni
http://guidocioni.altervista <http://guidocioni.altervista/>.org

> On 10 Apr 2017, at 14:26, Dawit Abebe <dawit.kan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Dennis and all
> 
> I’m sorry for bothering you all but tried to do xy plot of spi following example 1but failed. You hinted in your email below that I should change the spi array but could not figure out how to do thi. I tried the following but could not able to continue after some step. I have gone through the documentations and examples but failed to fix my problem. 
> 
> ………………………………
> 
> Variable: spi
> Type: double
> Total Size: 3151872 bytes
>             393984 values
> Number of Dimensions: 4
> Dimensions and sizes:	[len | 8] x [time | 1368] x [lat | 4] x [lon | 9]
> Coordinates: 
>             len: [1..36]
>             time: [ 380..41987]
>             lat: [3.75..5.25]
>             lon: [36.75..40.75]
> Number Of Attributes: 2
>   long_name :	SPI
>   _FillValue :	-999
> 
> Plot Parameter
> ncl 55> yyyymm = f->time
> ncl 56> yyyymm = yyyymm/100yrStrt = 1901   
> ncl 57> yrLast = 2014
> ncl 58> nyear  = yrLast-yrStrt+1
> ncl 59> yyyymm = yyyymm_time(yrStrt, yrLast, "integer")
> ncl 60> yrfrac = (/yyyymm_to_yyyyfrac(yyyymm, 0.0)/)
> ncl 61> 
> ncl 62> wks        = gsn_open_wks ("ps","spi")
> ncl 63> res        = True
> ncl 64> res at gsnDraw=False
> ncl 65> res at gsnFrame=False
> ncl 66> res at vpHeightF = 0.4
> ncl 67> res at vpWidthF  = 0.8
> ncl 68> res at vpXF      = 0.1
> ncl 69> 
> ncl 70> res at trYMinF   = -3.0
> ncl 71> res at trYMaxF   =  3.0
> ncl 72> res at gsnYRefLine = 0.0
> ncl 73> res at xyMonoDashPattern = True
> ncl 74> res at xyLineThicknessF  = 1
> ncl 75> 
> ncl 76> plt = new (klen, "graphic")
> ncl 77> xyLineColors = (/"black","red","blue","green","brown","magenta","grape"/)
> ncl 78> do k=0,klen-1
> ncl 79>    res at xyLineColours = xyLineColours(k)
> ncl 80>    res at gsnCenterString = "len="+klen(k)
> ncl 81>    plt(k) = gsn_csm_xy (wks, yrfrac, spi(k,:), res)
> ncl 82> end do
> fatal:Undefined identifier: (xyLineColours) is undefined, can't continue
> fatal:["Execute.c":8638]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 79
> ……………………………
> 
> Thanks for your help
> 
> Dawit
> 
> 
> 
>   
>> On Apr 6, 2017, at 9:00 PM, Dennis Shea <shea at ucar.edu <mailto:shea at ucar.edu>> wrote:
>> 
>> I do not understand the question.
>> 
>> https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/ <https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/>
>> 
>> Under Data Analysis: Click 'Standardized Precipitation Index'
>> 
>> See: Example 1
>> 
>> You need to make the same array changes as in the print.
>> 
>> EG:     spi(0,:,)==> spi(0,:,nl,ml)
>>  
>> 
>> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 1:22 AM, Dawit Abebe <dawit.kan at gmail.com <mailto:dawit.kan at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Hello All,
>> 
>> Thanks to Dennis, I am able to appreciate the power of NCL computing SPI. My next step is to produce 
>>  (1) a time serious XY plot for seasonal (SPI-3 ending in May and ending in November), annual (SPI-12) and multi annual (SPI-24 and SPI-36 months) and 
>> (2) Shape map of selected annual SPI with extremely sever drought events to examine the spatial characteristics of the drought.
>> 
>> I’m not asking for help before I try by my self (thanks Dennis for the push to do this). However, I need a quick comment how I should proceed from the last step producing the SPI output, which was printing: 
>> 
>> print(yyyymm+sprintf("%8.2f", prc(:,nl,ml))   \                                 
>>                 +sprintf("%8.2f", spi(0,:,nl,ml))+sprintf("%8.2f", spi(1,:,nl,ml)) \  
>>                 +sprintf("%8.2f", spi(2,:,nl,ml))+sprintf("%8.2f", spi(3,:,nl,ml)) \ 
>>                 +sprintf("%8.2f", spi(4,:,nl,ml))+sprintf("%8.2f", spi(5,:,nl,ml)) \  
>>                 +sprintf("%8.2f", spi(6,:,nl,ml)))
>> 
>> Do I need to go through this and then start with plot parameters, or I can continue with plot parameters without the print command?
>> 
>> Thank you so much
>> Dawit
>> 
>> 
>>   
>>> On Apr 5, 2017, at 4:43 PM, Dennis Shea <shea at ucar.edu <mailto:shea at ucar.edu>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> The error mesages is telling you the exact problem:
>>>    fatal:Plus: Number of dimensions do not match, can't continue
>>> 
>>> spi has 4-dimensions:
>>>    [len | 7] x [time | 1368] x [lat | 4] x [lon | 9]
>>> 
>>> prc has 3-dimensions
>>>    [time | 1368] x [lat | 4] x [lon | 9]
>>> 
>>> yyyymm has 1-dimension
>>>    [time | 1368]
>>> 
>>> ==============
>>> The print statement you used was copied from:
>>>     https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/dim_spi_n.shtml <https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/dim_spi_n.shtml>
>>>     Example 2
>>> That was working upon a single time series prc[*]
>>> 
>>>   
>>> 
>>> You have a 4-D array. *You* must make the appropriate changed to handle your situation.
>>> The eamples are not generic to all dimensions.
>>> 
>>>    nlat=4
>>>    mlon=9
>>> 
>>>    do nl=0,nlat-1
>>>       do ml=0,mlon-1
>>>        print("------------------------------------------------")
>>> 
>>> print(yyyymm+sprintf("%8.2f", prc(:,nl,ml))   \                                 
>>>                 +sprintf("%8.2f", spi(0,:,nl,ml))+sprintf("%8.2f", spi(1,:,nl,ml)) \  
>>>                 +sprintf("%8.2f", spi(2,:,nl,ml))+sprintf("%8.2f", spi(3,:,nl,ml)) \ 
>>>                 +sprintf("%8.2f", spi(4,:,nl,ml))+sprintf("%8.2f", spi(5,:,nl,ml)) \  
>>>                 +sprintf("%8.2f", spi(6,:,nl,ml)))
>>> 
>>>     end do
>>>   en do
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 2:20 AM, Dawit Abebe <dawit.kan at gmail.com <mailto:dawit.kan at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>> 
>>> Kindly help me to fix my problem with printing SPI. I pasted below first the return of printVarSummary(spi), which seems okay. However, my attempt to print  the output (text in blue) did not work.  What was wrong?
>>> 
>>> Greatly appreciate your help.
>>> 
>>> Dawit
>>> 
>>> …………………………………….
>>> 
>>> copy_VarCoords(prc,spi(0,:,:,:))
>>> spi at long_name = "SPI"
>>> spi!0         = "len"
>>> spi&len       =  len
>>> printVarSummary(spi)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Variable: spi
>>> Type: double
>>> Total Size: 2757888 bytes
>>>             344736 values
>>> Number of Dimensions: 4
>>> Dimensions and sizes:	[len | 7] x [time | 1368] x [lat | 4] x [lon | 9]
>>> Coordinates: 
>>>             len: [1..36]
>>>             time: [ 380..41987]
>>>             lat: [3.75..5.25]
>>>             lon: [36.75..40.75]
>>> Number Of Attributes: 2
>>>   long_name :	SPI
>>>   _FillValue :	-999
>>> 
>>> 
>>> yyyymm = cd_calendar(f->time, -1) 
>>> 
>>> print(yyyymm+sprintf("%8.2f", prc)   \                                 
>>>                 +sprintf("%8.2f", spi(0,:))+sprintf("%8.2f", spi(1,:)) \  
>>>                 +sprintf("%8.2f", spi(2,:))+sprintf("%8.2f", spi(3,:)) \ 
>>>                 +sprintf("%8.2f", spi(4,:))+sprintf("%8.2f", spi(5,:)) \  
>>>                 +sprintf("%8.2f", spi(6,:)))                              
>>> fatal:Plus: Number of dimensions do not match, can't continue
>>> fatal:["Execute.c":8638]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 37
>>> 
>>> 
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