[ncl-talk] Temperature Advection Script Error

[Jackson Wiles]

Thank you very much, Rick, for the input.  Any other help would be greatly appreciated from anyone else. 

Thanks again,

Jackson Wiles

> On Jul 20, 2021, at 5:04 PM, Rick Brownrigg <brownrig at ucar.edu> wrote:
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> Hi Jackson,
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> Well, those are obviously of three different sizes. The docs for advect_variable state they must be the same. (BTW: where did advect_var come from -- I don't see documentation for it, but it's there in the csm/contributed.ncl script???)
> 
> I'm a bit surprised the 3 variables are different. I'm not very knowledgeable about WRF files, but I would have thought that at least U & V would be the same. I'm not sure what to suggest here, short of regridding (which sounds like a lot of trouble).
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> Hopefully someone else can chime in.
> 
> Rick
> 
>> On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 2:22 PM Jackson Wiles <jtwiles at aggies.ncat.edu> wrote:
>> Thank you for looking into my issue.
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>> Here is the output for u, v and T respectively along with the updated script.
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>> (0)     25
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>> (1)     49
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>> (2)     185
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>> (3)     235
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>> (0)     25
>> 
>> (1)     49
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>> (2)     186
>> 
>> (3)     234
>> 
>> (0)     25
>> 
>> (1)     49
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>> (2)     185
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>> (3)     234
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>> Jackson Wiles
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>> From: Rick Brownrigg
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2021 3:50 PM
>> To: Jackson Wiles
>> Cc: ncl-talk at mailman.ucar.edu
>> Subject: Re: [ncl-talk] Temperature Advection Script Error
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>> Hi,
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>> Looking at the code for advect_var, ier=100 corresponds to the warning you are seeing. The code checks that the dimensions and sizes of the 3 input variables are all the same. I see in your script you printed dimsizes(u) -- what are the sizes for variables "v" and "T"?
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>> Rick
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>> On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 1:12 PM Jackson Wiles via ncl-talk <ncl-talk at mailman.ucar.edu> wrote:
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>> Hello,
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>> I am using ncl to try to plot temperature advection for a simulation produced by the Weather Research and Forecasting model. I have attached the temperature advection script to this email. However, I have been given an error. The total output from running the script is listed below.
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>> Copyright (C) 1995-2015 - All Rights Reserved
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>> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
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>> NCAR Command Language Version 6.3.0
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>> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
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>> See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
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>> Variable: times
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>> Type: string
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>> Total Size: 200 bytes
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>>             25 values
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>> Number of Dimensions: 1
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>> Dimensions and sizes:   [25]
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>> Coordinates:
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>> Number Of Attributes: 2
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>>   description : times in file
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>>   _FillValue :  missing
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>> (0)     2017-10-08_12:00:00
>> 
>> (1)     2017-10-08_13:00:00
>> 
>> (2)     2017-10-08_14:00:00
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>> (3)     2017-10-08_15:00:00
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>> (4)     2017-10-08_16:00:00
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>> (5)     2017-10-08_17:00:00
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>> (6)     2017-10-08_18:00:00
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>> (7)     2017-10-08_19:00:00
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>> (8)     2017-10-08_20:00:00
>> 
>> (9)     2017-10-08_21:00:00
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>> (10)    2017-10-08_22:00:00
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>> (11)    2017-10-08_23:00:00
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>> (12)    2017-10-09_00:00:00
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>> (13)    2017-10-09_01:00:00
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>> (14)    2017-10-09_02:00:00
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>> (15)    2017-10-09_03:00:00
>> 
>> (16)    2017-10-09_04:00:00
>> 
>> (17)    2017-10-09_05:00:00
>> 
>> (18)    2017-10-09_06:00:00
>> 
>> (19)    2017-10-09_07:00:00
>> 
>> (20)    2017-10-09_08:00:00
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>> (21)    2017-10-09_09:00:00
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>> (22)    2017-10-09_10:00:00
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>> (23)    2017-10-09_11:00:00
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>> (24)    2017-10-09_12:00:00
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>> (0)     Working on time: 2017-10-08_12:00:00
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>> (0)     25
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>> (1)     49
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>> (2)     185
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>> (3)     235
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>> (0)     The script can run this far
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>> (0)     advect_var: all input arguments must have the same dimension sizes
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>> (0)                 ranku=4
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>> (0)                 rankv=4
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>> (0)                 rankx=4
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>> (0)     advect_var: Warning: No named dimensions. Can not check grid order.
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>> (0)     advect_var fatal error(s) encountered: ier=100
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>> I am not sure how to fix this issue. I have been trying to use the advection variable function in ncl based off of the following link https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Contributed/advect_variable.shtml. Any information or help regarding this issue would be greatly appreciated.
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>> Thank you!
>> 
>> Jackson
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