[ncl-talk] Issues with Date Strings in Plots

[Rick Brownrigg]

As per the docs:


http://ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/User_contributed/time_axis_labels.shtml

It is a contributed function, and requires:

    load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/contrib/time_axis_labels.ncl"


On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 7:18 PM Zach Rieck <zrr817 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah I had been trying to use this function. I keep running into issues
> with time_axis_labels function returning as an undefined procedure.
>
> -Zach Rieck
> zrr817 at gmail.com
> (513)-502-5652
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 10:36 AM Rick Brownrigg <brownrig at ucar.edu> wrote:
>
>> You might take a look at this function to address your time-axis
>> labelling:
>>
>>
>> http://ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/User_contributed/time_axis_labels.shtml
>>
>> Its quite flexible and you'll need/want to experiment a bit, but its
>> basic usage is it modifies the "res" resources variable you pass into
>> plotting routines; something like:
>>
>> res = True
>> .....
>> restick = True
>> restick at ttmFormat = "%Y/%N"     ;; will give labels like yyyy/mm
>> time_axis_labels(time_f, res, restick)
>> ;;;  now "res" will have additional labeling resources added to it
>> plot = .....
>>
>> I hope that helps. I don't really understand your second issue.
>>
>> Rick
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 8:15 PM Zach Rieck <zrr817 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> To Whom it May Concern-
>>>
>>> I have two issues that I am beating my head against the table trying to
>>> solve. The 1st, along the lines of my subject is regarding getting my plot
>>> to show dates instead of "days since 2001" in the x-axis. I've tried using
>>> some supplied code in the documentation regarding time resources, but I
>>> can't get it to work with my code. The time snippet I have is correct, so
>>> if I can just solve this issue my plot will be good to go.
>>>
>>> The 2nd issue I am running into is that my 2nd plot (from WRF data) is
>>> showing 0 for all my values when I am plotting it, despite the fact that
>>> printing the gridpoint variable gives the right output. I can't provide the
>>> file due to its massive side and location on cloud storage (it would take
>>> at least 10 hours to download locally). I know this isn't particularly
>>> helpful, but if it its at all possible to look at my code and see if there
>>> is something I might be doing wrong I'd really appreciate it.
>>>
>>> I'll attach here the code file as well as the data file for my 1st plot
>>> and the output so you can see it. Any advice/ help is greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> -Zach Rieck
>>> zrr817 at gmail.com
>>> (513)-502-5652
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