[ncl-talk] 3 dimensions to 2 dimensions

Md. Jalal Uddin dmjalal90 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 30 21:23:19 MDT 2019


What is it you really intend here -- a sum over time, or an average?

I don't want to sum or average. I want to take the whole temporal value at
each lat and lon and make a two dimensions Rain from three dimensions TRMM.

On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 11:17 AM Rick Brownrigg <brownrig at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Well, there are still two problems with that innermost nested loop:
>
> i)  What is the value of the 1st (zero-th) index value into TRMM on the
> first iteration of that loop?
> do nt=0,ntim-1
> Rain(nl,ml) = TRMM(nt-1,nl,ml)  ; Subscript out of range, error in
> subscript #0
>
> ii) again, this loop is overwriting the value of Rain(nl,ml) repeatedly,
> for "ntim" times, only to end up with Rain(nl,ml) containing the value
> TRMM(ntim-1,nl,ml) by the time the innermost loop exits. What is it you
> really intend here -- a sum over time, or an average?
>
> I really don't know at all about the second set of errors from
> copy_VarMeta -- it seems like some dimensionality requirement between
> copy_from and copy_to is getting violated, but I don't have the full
> picture. See the docs for discussion on requirements on the "leftmost
> dimensions":
>
> http://ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Contributed/copy_VarMeta.shtml
>
> Perhaps get that inner loop correct and the rest may sort itself out....
>
> Rick
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 8:42 PM Md. Jalal Uddin <dmjalal90 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Rick,
>> Now, I am getting the following errors (Highlight in red color).
>>
>>   f = addfile("bob_vscs.nc","r")
>>   time =f->time
>>   lat =f->latitude
>>   lon =f->longitude
>>   ntim = dimsizes(time)
>>   nlat = dimsizes(lat)
>>   nlon = dimsizes(lon)
>>   TRMM = f->pcp(:,{0:30},{75:100})        ;TRMM(time, latitude,
>> longitude)
>>
>>   Rain =new((/nlat,nlon/),"float")
>>
>>     do nl=0,nlat-1
>>      do ml=0,nlon-1
>> do nt=0,ntim-1
>> Rain(nl,ml) = TRMM(nt-1,nl,ml)  ; Subscript out of range, error in
>> subscript #0
>> end do
>> end do
>>     end do
>>   copy_VarMeta(TRMM(0,:,:),Rain)    ; fatal:Coordinate variables must be
>> the same dimension as their dimension    fatal:No coordinate variable
>> exists for dimension (longitude) in variable (var_to)
>>
>> Variable: TRMM
>> Type: float
>> Total Size: 18720000 bytes
>>             4680000 values
>> Number of Dimensions: 3
>> Dimensions and sizes:   [time | 390] x [latitude | 120] x [longitude |
>> 100]
>> Coordinates:
>>             time: [   0..119208]
>>             latitude: [0.125..29.875]
>>             longitude: [75.125..99.875]
>> Number Of Attributes: 7
>>   long_name :   precipitation (mm/hr)
>>   _FillValue :  -9999.9
>>   missing_value :       -9999.9
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 8:48 PM Rick Brownrigg <brownrig at ucar.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> HI,
>>>
>>> It looks like there may be several problems going here:
>>>
>>> i) I speculate you mean something more like this:
>>>   time =f->time
>>>   lat =f->latitude
>>>   lon =f->longitude
>>>   ntim = dimsizes(time)
>>>   nlat = dimsizes(lat)
>>>   nlon = dimsizes(lon)
>>>
>>> ii) I'm not sure the intent here:
>>>
>>>    Rain(nl,ml) = TRMM(nt,nl,ml)
>>>
>>> Each time through the inner loop, it will (re)assign the one by one "nt"
>>> values of TRMM to the same element of Rain(nl, ml), exiting the loop with
>>> it set to the "nt-1"th value. Its equivalent to foregoing the entire inner
>>> loop and just saying Rain(nl,ml) = TRMM(nt-1,nl,ml)
>>>
>>> Hope that helps,
>>> Rick
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 4:00 AM Md. Jalal Uddin <dmjalal90 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I have tried to take all rainfall data  for each latitude and
>>>> longitude point and made 2 dimensions from 3 dimensions. I am getting the
>>>> following errors.
>>>> fatal:_NclBuildArray: each element of a literal array must have the
>>>> same dimension sizes, at least one item doesn't
>>>>
>>>> The main code:
>>>>
>>>> f = addfile("bob_vscs.nc","r")
>>>>   ntim =f->time
>>>>   nlat =f->latitude
>>>>   nlon =f->longitude
>>>>   TRMM = f->pcp(:,{0:30},{75:100})        ;TRMM(time 390, latitude 120,
>>>> longitude 100)
>>>>
>>>>   Rain =new((/nlat,nlon/),"float")
>>>>
>>>>     do nl=0,nlat-1
>>>>      do ml=0,nlon-1
>>>> do nt=0,ntim-1
>>>> Rain(nl,ml) = TRMM(nt,nl,ml)
>>>> end do
>>>> end do
>>>>     end do
>>>>
>>>> Could you help me to solve the problem, please?
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>> Jalal
>>>> --
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>>>> Nanjing University of Information, Science and Technology, China
>>>> B.Sc. in Disaster Management (Hons.)
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>>
>> --
>> *Md. Jalal Uddin*
>> MSc in Applied Meteorology (English Language)
>> Nanjing University of Information, Science and Technology, China
>> B.Sc. in Disaster Management (Hons.)
>> Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Bangladesh.
>> Cell: +8613260859092, +8801792052662
>> Web: www.dmjalal90.weebly.com
>> Facebook: jalal.hossen.39
>> LinkedIn: https://bd.linkedin.com/in/md-jalal-uddin-80a026b0
>> Twitter: dmjalal90
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>>
>

-- 
*Md. Jalal Uddin*
MSc in Applied Meteorology (English Language)
Nanjing University of Information, Science and Technology, China
B.Sc. in Disaster Management (Hons.)
Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Bangladesh.
Cell: +8613260859092, +8801792052662
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