[ncl-talk] Write the input variables on an ASCII file

Lara Quitián Hernández laraquitianhernandez at gmail.com
Tue Jun 4 02:10:24 MDT 2019


Thank you very much for your answer and recommendations.

Best regards,
Lara

El mar., 4 jun. 2019 a las 5:05, Rick Brownrigg (<brownrig at ucar.edu>)
escribió:

> Hi Lara,
>
> There are a number of approaches, and not knowing the specifics, its hard
> to know how to advise best:
>
> - if "print"ing is otherwise working for you, and there are no other
> superfluous print statements in the script, perhaps something like "ncl -Q
> myscript.ncl >myAsciiFile.txt"   (The -Q suppresses the printing of the
> version and copyright info).
>
> - Alternatively, create a NetCDF file from the GRIB file, and then use
> ncdump or some other NetCDF tool to dump the contents. Creating NetCDF from
> NCL is pretty easy:
>
>     http://ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/list_io.shtml
>
> - Finally, if the files are fairly large in binary form, they will of
> course be considerably larger in ASCII form:  i) NCL's string handling in
> the face of large amounts of string data is notoriously bad, ii) reading
> large amounts of ASCII data can be slow, iii) is there a good reason to
> prefer ASCII over, say, NetCDF (its an honest question -- if the answer is
> "yes", then yes!).
>
> Hope that helps...
> Rick
>
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 5:29 AM Lara Quitián Hernández <
> laraquitianhernandez at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have just verified it. I have all permits on that directory: drwxrwxrwx
>>
>> I will continue working on it.
>>
>> Thanks a lot.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Lara
>>
>> El lun., 3 jun. 2019 a las 13:23, Lyndz (<olagueralyndonmark429 at gmail.com>)
>> escribió:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Maybe yes (that it is related to the memory issue of your PC) or it
>>> could be something else. Check if you have a write access to the grib files
>>> or the location where you are saving the text files.
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Lyndz
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 7:32 PM Lara Quitián Hernández <
>>> laraquitianhernandez at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> I did not know that command! Thanks a lot. But I'm afraid I have
>>>> another problem. I received this error message: "Segmentation fault (core
>>>> dumped)". It seems to be a memory problem. What should I do?
>>>> Each file has a 223MB size. It isn't so much, isn't it?
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Lara
>>>>
>>>> El lun., 3 jun. 2019 a las 11:57, Lyndz (<
>>>> olagueralyndonmark429 at gmail.com>) escribió:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> If I got your question correctly, I think you dont need to read the
>>>>> file.
>>>>>
>>>>> ncl_filedump PFHARMOPHELIA+0084.grib  >  PFHARMOPHELIA+0084.txt
>>>>>
>>>>> -----
>>>>>
>>>>> Lyndz
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 4:53 PM Lara Quitián Hernández <
>>>>> laraquitianhernandez at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Good morning,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm working with a specific model output file (grib format). I would
>>>>>> like to write all the available variables of my input file on an ASCII
>>>>>> file. Could you please help me with the function that does that?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm now using the print() function but it would be easier to have the
>>>>>> ASCII file saved on my computer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *; read file;************************************************file =
>>>>>> addfile("../PFHARMOPHELIA+0084.grib", "r")print(file)*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>>> Best regards
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Lara
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *Lara Quitián Hernández, PhD Student*
>>>>>> Department of Earth Physics and Astrophysics
>>>>>> Faculty of Physical Sciences
>>>>>> Ciudad Universitaria, Plaza Ciencias, 1
>>>>>> 28040 Madrid. Spain
>>>>>> Email: lquitian at ucm.es <mlunar at aemet.es>
>>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Lara Quitián Hernández, PhD Student*
>>>> Department of Earth Physics and Astrophysics
>>>> Faculty of Physical Sciences
>>>> Ciudad Universitaria, Plaza Ciencias, 1
>>>> 28040 Madrid. Spain
>>>> Email: lquitian at ucm.es <mlunar at aemet.es>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> *Lara Quitián Hernández, PhD Student*
>> Department of Earth Physics and Astrophysics
>> Faculty of Physical Sciences
>> Ciudad Universitaria, Plaza Ciencias, 1
>> 28040 Madrid. Spain
>> Email: lquitian at ucm.es <mlunar at aemet.es>
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*Lara Quitián Hernández, PhD Student*
Department of Earth Physics and Astrophysics
Faculty of Physical Sciences
Ciudad Universitaria, Plaza Ciencias, 1
28040 Madrid. Spain
Email: lquitian at ucm.es <mlunar at aemet.es>
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