[ncl-talk] Error while plotting winds from WRF dataset

swati shewale shewaleswati16 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 20 23:23:55 MST 2017 

Thanks a lot, Its working fine.

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 11:32 AM, Dennis Shea <shea at ucar.edu> wrote:

> The following is pointing to where the error is occurring
>
> atal:syntax error: line 25 in file try_wind.ncl before or near ,
>   contour = wrf_contour((a[0],
> -----------------------------^
>
> fatal:syntax error: line 29 in file try_wind.ncl before or near ,
>   plot = wrf_map_overlays((a[0],
> -----------------------------^
> ======
> Theses should be;
>
> contour = wrf_contour(a[0],...
>
>  plot = wrf_map_overlays((a[0],...
>
> ======
> Also
>
> tt  = dim_avg_Wrap(t2(south_north|:,west_east|:, Time|:) )
>
> should be replaced by the more efficient
>
> tt  = dim_avg_n_Wrap(t2(, 0 )
>
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 10:52 PM, swati shewale <shewaleswati16 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks a lot Mary for reciprocating. Actually I wanted to do average for
>> all time, for that purpose I did concatenated. As per you suggestion, I did
>> call all the files at a time and then did average over all time steps (for
>> time being here, temperature parameter, once get rectified will try on
>> winds) using ncl function dim_avg_Wrap. after that when I go for
>> contouring, It gives me error as below. It gave me error as
>>
>> *fatal:Argument type mismatch on argument (0) of (wrf_contour) can *
>>
>> *not coerce.*Then from one of your earlier answer to above issue, I did
>> change like instead of taking multiple file a, I give as a[0]. Now
>> facing follow issue
>>
>>
>> fatal:syntax error: line 25 in file try_wind.ncl before or near ,
>>   contour = wrf_contour((a[0],
>> -----------------------------^
>>
>> fatal:syntax error: line 29 in file try_wind.ncl before or near ,
>>   plot = wrf_map_overlays((a[0],
>> -------------------------------^
>>
>> Below is the script
>>
>>   wrf_files = systemfunc("ls /home/swati/work/analysis/2_ci
>> ties/Patna/14aug2014/wrf_out_data/3rd_domain/wrfout_d03_2014-08-13*")
>>   a = addfiles(wrf_files,"r")
>>   t2    = wrf_user_getvar(a,"T2",-1)
>>   tt  = dim_avg_Wrap(t2(south_north|:,west_east|:, Time|:) )
>>   wks = gsn_open_wks("png","try")
>>   res = True
>>   contour = wrf_contour((a[0],wks,tt,res)
>>   pltres = True
>>   mpres = True
>>   plot = wrf_map_overlays((a[0],wks,(/contour/),pltres,mpres)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 4:14 AM, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> The ball was dropped on this question, because we thought somebody else
>>> was handling it.
>>>
>>> You have numerous errors in your script, which indicates to us that you
>>> are not checking your error messages closely. Please make an effort to
>>> clean up these errors before sending your scripts and data to us.
>>>
>>> For example, this error is telling you exactly which line the error
>>> occurs on, and what the issue is:
>>>
>>> *fatal:["Execute.c":8567]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 50 in
>>> file wind_climatology_850hpa_all_files.ncl*
>>> *fatal:Dimension size mismatch, dimension (0) of left hand side
>>> reference does not have the same size as the right hand side reference
>>> after subscripting.*
>>>
>>>
>>> If you don't understand an error, then look at our "Common error
>>> messages" page:
>>>
>>> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Language/error_messages.shtml
>>>
>>> The above error is explained on this page. Here's the exact link:
>>>
>>> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Language/error_messages.sht
>>> ml#DimsMismatch
>>>
>>>
>>> <http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Language/error_messages.shtml#DimsMismatch>
>>> However, I think the real issue may be that you are trying to use
>>> wrf_user_intrp3d on non WRF files. You mentioned using ncrcat to create the
>>> new files and I have a feeling these new files do not conform to the WRF
>>> output file standards required by the wrf_xxx functions.
>>>
>>> I don't understand why you needed to concatenate the files first. You
>>> should be able to use "addfiles" to read in a series of WRF output files
>>> directly. For example, let's say you have several WRF output files each
>>> with one time step:
>>>
>>> wrfout_d01_2008-09-28_00:30:00
>>> wrfout_d01_2008-09-28_01:00:00
>>> wrfout_d01_2008-09-28_01:30:00
>>> wrfout_d01_2008-09-28_02:00:00
>>> wrfout_d01_2008-09-28_02:30:00
>>> wrfout_d01_2008-09-28_03:00:00
>>> wrfout_d01_2008-09-28_03:30:00
>>> wrfout_d01_2008-09-28_04:00:00
>>> . . .
>>>
>>> You can read these files in directoy with the following NCL script. Note
>>> the use of addfiles:
>>>
>>>   wrf_files = systemfunc("ls wrfout_d01_2008-09-29*")
>>>
>>>   a = addfiles(wrf_files,"r")
>>>
>>>   t2    = wrf_user_getvar(a,"T2",-1)     ; -1 means all time steps
>>>                                   u     = wrf_user_getvar(a,"ua",-1)
>>>   v     = wrf_user_getvar(a,"va",-1)
>>>   times = wrf_user_getvar(a,"times",-1)  ; get all times across all
>>> files
>>>   print(times)
>>>   printVarSummary(t2)
>>>   printVarSummary(u)
>>>   printVarSummary(v)
>>>
>>>
>>> Remember that you cannot use wrf_xxxx functions on the DD_aug_2014.nc
>>> files, unless they are WRF output files.
>>>
>>> --Mary
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 9:06 PM, swati shewale <shewaleswati16 at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear All,
>>>>
>>>> I wish to plot winds at 850 hpa but facing error as below. Tried it
>>>> several ways like plotted separately by taking single file at a time, doing
>>>> this it works fine. while doing panel plot, third file shows some weird
>>>> error as mismatch array (If I handle third file separately, it does not
>>>> show any error). I have uploaded 3 datafiles via NCL ftp, these are WRF
>>>> files renamed as 13_aug_2014.nc, 14_aug_2014.nc <http://13_aug_2014.nc>,
>>>> 15_aug_2014.nc <http://13_aug_2014.nc> (concanated using ncrcat).
>>>> Please have a look at it and suggest me modification I need to carry out in
>>>> the script.
>>>>
>>>> I have attached script. In the script, all the three files e.g.
>>>> a0,a1,a2 (I have repeated same files again as a3,a4,a5) have same structure
>>>> except time.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> fatal:Dimension size mismatch, dimension (0) of left hand side
>>>> reference does not have the same size as the right hand side reference
>>>> after subscripting.
>>>> fatal:["Execute.c":8567]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 245
>>>> in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/wrf/WRFUserARW.ncl
>>>>
>>>> fatal:["Execute.c":8567]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 50 in
>>>> file wind_climatology_850hpa_all_files.ncl
>>>>
>>>> fatal:Dimension size mismatch, dimension (0) of left hand side
>>>> reference does not have the same size as the right hand side reference
>>>> after subscripting.
>>>> fatal:["Execute.c":8567]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 245
>>>> in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/wrf/WRFUserARW.ncl
>>>>
>>>> fatal:["Execute.c":8567]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 51 in
>>>> file wind_climatology_850hpa_all_files.ncl
>>>>
>>>> fatal:Undefined identifier: (uu2) is undefined, can't continue
>>>> fatal:["Execute.c":8567]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 53 in
>>>> file wind_climatology_850hpa_all_files.ncl
>>>>
>>>> fatal:Undefined identifier: (vv2) is undefined, can't continue
>>>> fatal:["Execute.c":8567]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 54 in
>>>> file wind_climatology_850hpa_all_files.ncl
>>>>
>>>> fatal:Variable (u_plane2) is undefined
>>>> fatal:["Execute.c":8567]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 55 in
>>>> file wind_climatology_850hpa_all_files.ncl
>>>>
>>>> fatal:Dimension size mismatch, dimension (0) of left hand side
>>>> reference does not have the same size as the right hand side reference
>>>> after subscripting.
>>>> fatal:["Execute.c":8567]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 245
>>>> in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/wrf/WRFUserARW.ncl
>>>>
>>>> fatal:["Execute.c":8567]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 83 in
>>>> file wind_climatology_850hpa_all_files.ncl
>>>>
>>>> fatal:Dimension size mismatch, dimension (0) of left hand side
>>>> reference does not have the same size as the right hand side reference
>>>> after subscripting.
>>>> fatal:["Execute.c":8567]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 245
>>>> in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/wrf/WRFUserARW.ncl
>>>>
>>>> fatal:["Execute.c":8567]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 84 in
>>>> file wind_climatology_850hpa_all_files.ncl
>>>>
>>>> fatal:Undefined identifier: (uu5) is undefined, can't continue
>>>> fatal:["Execute.c":8567]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 86 in
>>>> file wind_climatology_850hpa_all_files.ncl
>>>>
>>>> fatal:Undefined identifier: (vv5) is undefined, can't continue
>>>> fatal:["Execute.c":8567]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 87 in
>>>> file wind_climatology_850hpa_all_files.ncl
>>>>
>>>> fatal:Variable (u_plane5) is undefined
>>>> fatal:["Execute.c":8567]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 88 in
>>>> file wind_climatology_850hpa_all_files.ncl
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 10:54 AM, swati shewale <
>>>> shewaleswati16 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear All,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you Sir. It is working now.  Sorry for inconvenience.  from my
>>>>> side am going through various scripts coming under vector form. Actually
>>>>> after trying hard, If am unable to resolve the issue, then only approaches
>>>>> to NCL user. Anyway, I have uploaded the files as well as script, if find
>>>>> it easy to go through, Please suggest.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Dennis Shea <shea at ucar.edu> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> offline here
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I do not have any answer. I am not involved with systems or ftp.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Possibly, after cd to the 'incoming' directory, the 'put' is trying to create a directory on the ftp site.
>>>>>> Perhaps something named:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /ftp/incoming/home/swati/work/analysis/2_cities/Patna/14aug2014/wrf_out_data/3rd_domain
>>>>>>
>>>>>> or ????
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /ftp/incoming/home/swati/work/analysis/2_cities/Patna/14aug2014/wrf_out_data/3rd_domain/try
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ========
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Maybe, you should cd to the directory with the data files
>>>>>>
>>>>>> %> cd /home/swati/work/analysis/2_cities/Patna/14aug2014/wrf_out_data/3rd_domain
>>>>>>
>>>>>> or
>>>>>>
>>>>>> %> cd /home/swati/work/analysis/2_cities/Patna/14aug2014/wrf_out_data/3rd_domain/try
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> then, from that directory, try the ftp
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ftp ftp.cgd.ucar.edu
>>>>>> anonymous*<enter your email address for the password>*
>>>>>> cd incoming
>>>>>> put 13_aug_2014.nc
>>>>>>  . . .*continue with 'put' commands until all desired files are uploaded*. . .
>>>>>> quit
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> =======
>>>>>>
>>>>>> FYI: There may be major changes in ncl support. People are sending many complicated scripts
>>>>>> which take considerable time on our part to understand. Sometimes *hours* ... even *days*.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The NCL team wants to help but is not paid to answer NCL questions.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In fact, some people just keep sending is poorly written scripts that we ust spend time
>>>>>>
>>>>>> cleaning up.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It is frustrating.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> D
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 8:54 PM, swati shewale <
>>>>>> shewaleswati16 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dear Dennis,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> All the three files, I want to sent has a size of 3.4 GB (total). As
>>>>>>> per your suggestion, I tried to upload it still facing same issue.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 8:39 PM, Dennis Shea <shea at ucar.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> How big is the file?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The ftp area is only 24% full. Please try again.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Nov 9, 2017, at 5:32 AM, swati shewale <shewaleswati16 at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Dear All,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Using below link, I followed the steps for uploading datafiles.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ftp_files.shtml
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It shows error as follow
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ftp> cd incoming
>>>>>>>> 250 Directory successfully changed.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ftp> put /home/swati/work/analysis/2_ci
>>>>>>>> ties/Patna/14aug2014/wrf_out_data/3rd_domain/13_aug_2014.nc
>>>>>>>> local: /home/swati/work/analysis/2_cities/Patna/14aug2014/wrf_out_d
>>>>>>>> ata/3rd_domain/13_aug_2014.nc remote:
>>>>>>>> /home/swati/work/analysis/2_cities/Patna/14aug2014/wrf_out_d
>>>>>>>> ata/3rd_domain/13_aug_2014.nc
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 227 Entering Passive Mode (128,117,23,220,192,16).
>>>>>>>> 553 Could not create file.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Please let me know further steps to do. Thanks in advance.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 5:25 PM, swati shewale <
>>>>>>>> shewaleswati16 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Dear All,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I wish to plot winds at 850 hpa but facing error as below. Tried
>>>>>>>>> it several ways like plotted separately by taking single file at a time,
>>>>>>>>> doing this it works fine. while doing panel plot, third file shows some
>>>>>>>>> weird error as mismatch array. I wish to send the dataset files, total 3
>>>>>>>>> files have size around 3.5 GB. Is it possible to send the dataset. Please
>>>>>>>>> give me some insight. I have attached script.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> In the script, all the three files e.g. a0,a1,a2 (I have repeated
>>>>>>>>> same files again as a3,a4,a5) have same structure except time. once I send
>>>>>>>>> the data files (I used ncrcat command to concanate all the files),  you can
>>>>>>>>> see no of files (using ncdump -h command) get concanated (at the bottom)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> fatal:Dimension size mismatch, dimension (0) of left hand side
>>>>>>>>> reference does not have the same size as the right hand side reference
>>>>>>>>> after subscripting.
>>>>>>>>> fatal:["Execute.c":8567]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line
>>>>>>>>> 245 in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/wrf/WRFUserARW.ncl
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> fatal:["Execute.c":8567]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line
>>>>>>>>> 50 in file wind_climatology_850hpa_all_files.ncl
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> fatal:Dimension size mismatch, dimension (0) of left hand side
>>>>>>>>> reference does not have the same size as the right hand side reference
>>>>>>>>> after subscripting.
>>>>>>>>> fatal:["Execute.c":8567]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line
>>>>>>>>> 245 in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/wrf/WRFUserARW.ncl
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> fatal:["Execute.c":8567]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line
>>>>>>>>> 51 in file wind_climatology_850hpa_all_files.ncl
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> fatal:Undefined identifier: (uu2) is undefined, can't continue
>>>>>>>>> fatal:["Execute.c":8567]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line
>>>>>>>>> 53 in file wind_climatology_850hpa_all_files.ncl
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> fatal:Undefined identifier: (vv2) is undefined, can't continue
>>>>>>>>> fatal:["Execute.c":8567]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line
>>>>>>>>> 54 in file wind_climatology_850hpa_all_files.ncl
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> fatal:Variable (u_plane2) is undefined
>>>>>>>>> fatal:["Execute.c":8567]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line
>>>>>>>>> 55 in file wind_climatology_850hpa_all_files.ncl
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> fatal:Dimension size mismatch, dimension (0) of left hand side
>>>>>>>>> reference does not have the same size as the right hand side reference
>>>>>>>>> after subscripting.
>>>>>>>>> fatal:["Execute.c":8567]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line
>>>>>>>>> 245 in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/wrf/WRFUserARW.ncl
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> fatal:["Execute.c":8567]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line
>>>>>>>>> 83 in file wind_climatology_850hpa_all_files.ncl
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> fatal:Dimension size mismatch, dimension (0) of left hand side
>>>>>>>>> reference does not have the same size as the right hand side reference
>>>>>>>>> after subscripting.
>>>>>>>>> fatal:["Execute.c":8567]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line
>>>>>>>>> 245 in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/wrf/WRFUserARW.ncl
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> fatal:["Execute.c":8567]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line
>>>>>>>>> 84 in file wind_climatology_850hpa_all_files.ncl
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> fatal:Undefined identifier: (uu5) is undefined, can't continue
>>>>>>>>> fatal:["Execute.c":8567]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line
>>>>>>>>> 86 in file wind_climatology_850hpa_all_files.ncl
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> fatal:Undefined identifier: (vv5) is undefined, can't continue
>>>>>>>>> fatal:["Execute.c":8567]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line
>>>>>>>>> 87 in file wind_climatology_850hpa_all_files.ncl
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> fatal:Variable (u_plane5) is undefined
>>>>>>>>> fatal:["Execute.c":8567]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line
>>>>>>>>> 88 in file wind_climatology_850hpa_all_files.ncl
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
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