[ncl-talk] problem with adding file

Dennis Shea shea at ucar.edu
Wed Aug 30 10:24:19 MDT 2017 

Several people have successfully run your script no only under different
NCL version but also on I would say this is not an NCL issue.

It has been suggested that you may have an incomplete file or a corrupted
file. Perhaps, this is the problem?

At this point you have nothing to lose. Please delete your file and
re-download the file. Follow the download instructions.



On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 9:29 AM, Dennis Shea <shea at ucar.edu> wrote:

> % GPCC> ncl spi.ncl   >&!   out.spi
>
> It works fine with 6.3.0, 6.4.0 and 6.5.0-beta
>
> See attachment.
>
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 8:45 AM, Setareh Rahimi <setareh.rahimi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> So what is the problem? , I do know there is no problem whit the file.
>>
>> May I ask you please run the script and check if that works correctly?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 5:59 PM, Dennis Shea <shea at ucar.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> I have both v6 and v7 from:
>>>   https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.gpcc.html
>>>
>>> %> cd DATA/PRECIP/GPCC
>>> %> ls -l  precip.mon.total.v[6-7].nc
>>>
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 shea cgdcas 1368593336  2014 precip.mon.total.v6.nc
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 shea cgdcas  348532141   2017 precip.mon.total.v7.nc
>>>
>>> See the above URL for descriptions.
>>> ===
>>>
>>> %> ncl_filedump precip.mon.total.v6.nc
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> %> ncl_filedump precip.mon.total.v7.nc
>>>
>>> both work fine.
>>>
>>> ====
>>> I thought that you have a permissions problem.
>>> However, if Matlab reads the file and NCL does not then that is not the
>>> case.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 3:29 AM, Setareh Rahimi <
>>> setareh.rahimi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It dose exist as precip, I also checked this in Matlab and foud out it
>>>> is as precip( see attached files please), I have done with this file some
>>>> plots before, it worked about a few months ago, but wonder what happened
>>>> currently?!!!!
>>>>
>>>> Thank you
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Krishnamoorthy Chandramouli <
>>>> chandrakrishna.90 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Try checking if the variable actually exist as precip in the nc file
>>>>> ncdump -v precip [your-nc-file]
>>>>>
>>>>> Also if possible share the file, so that someone will try and help.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *Regards,*
>>>>> *Krishnamoorthy Chandramouli*
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Setareh Rahimi <
>>>>> setareh.rahimi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please have a look at the attached file, which is a screenshot of
>>>>>> ncl_filedump command .
>>>>>>
>>>>>> what is your idea?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best wishes,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 2:24 AM, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As another test, please see if you can look at the file using
>>>>>>> "ncl_filedump" from the UNIX command  line. But, first make sure you have
>>>>>>> the file correctly spelled:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ls precip.mon.total.v6.nc
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> then:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ncl_filedump precip.mon.total.v6.nc
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ​This is the same thing as the 2-line script that Dennis asked you
>>>>>>> to try. If this works, then you can also verify at the same time if
>>>>>>> "precip" is a variable in that file.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you get any errors from the ncl_filedump command, respond back to
>>>>>>> ncl-talk with all of the error messages included.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --Mary
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 11:45 AM, Dennis Shea <shea at ucar.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hello ... Please respond to ncl-talk and not directly to me.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Your script has:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>     *f *     = addfile("precip.mon.total.v6.nc","r")
>>>>>>>>     prc    =* f*->precip({tStrt:tLast},:,:)         ; whole grid
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The error message is:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> fatal: file (*f*) isn't defined
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I am not sure what the problem would be. Someone else will have to
>>>>>>>> respond.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>> What does the following yoeld? Likely the same error.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   *f *     = addfile("precip.mon.total.v6.nc","r")
>>>>>>>>   print(*f*)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> =====================================================
>>>>>>>> NOTE:
>>>>>>>> You do *not* have to load the following libraries from NCL 6.2.0
>>>>>>>> onward. So for 6.3.0, they are *automatically loaded.*
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> load"$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl"
>>>>>>>> load"$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_csm.ncl"
>>>>>>>> load"$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/contributed.ncl"
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> From 6.4.0, the following are automatically loaded:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>     "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl"
>>>>>>>>     "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_csm.ncl"
>>>>>>>>     "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/contributed.ncl"
>>>>>>>>     "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/shea_util.ncl"
>>>>>>>>     "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/bootstrap.ncl"
>>>>>>>>     "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/extval.ncl"
>>>>>>>>     "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/wrf/WRFUserARW.ncl"
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Setareh Rahimi <
>>>>>>>> setareh.rahimi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> dear Dennis,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thank you for your advice, but  both data file and script are in
>>>>>>>>> the same directory.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Tue 29 Aug 2017 at 19:12, Dennis Shea <shea at ucar.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> By default, NCL always looks in the 'current directory'.
>>>>>>>>>> My guess is that the data file is not in the same directory as
>>>>>>>>>> the NCL script.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> dirp = "/some/path/to/file/"
>>>>>>>>>> filp   = "precip.mon.total.v6.nc"
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> pthp = dirp + filp
>>>>>>>>>> f       = addfile(pthp, "r")
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> or
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> f = addfile(dirp + filp, "r")
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 8:26 AM, Setareh Rahimi <
>>>>>>>>>> setareh.rahimi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Once I put my NCL command line in NCL environment, it returns me
>>>>>>>>>>> an error.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>  Please have a look at the attached files, which contain a
>>>>>>>>>>> screenshot of the error and my script.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Please help me as soon as possible.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Best wishes,
>>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>>> S.Rahimi
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>> S.Rahimi
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> S.Rahimi
>>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> S.Rahimi
>>>>
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>> --
>> S.Rahimi
>>
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