[ncl-talk] Problem using contributed function "time_axes_labels"

[Tabish Ansari]

Hi

I'm running an NCL script which utilizes the time_axes_labels function on
two different machines. Since it is a contributed function, it needs to be
loaded manually in the preamble. The script runs smoothly on one of the
machines but fails on the other.

I use these two lines in the beginning of my script:
load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/contrib/time_axis_labels.ncl"
load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/contrib/cd_string.ncl"

and the code snippet where I use the function is here:
;--------------------------------------------------
; The time_axis_label function adds additional
; resources to "res" to produce nicely-formatted
; time labels on X axis. This function only works
; if you have a time "units" recognized by the
; cd_calendar function.
;--------------------------------------------------
  restick           = True
  restick at ttmFormat = "%Y"
  restick at ttmMajorStride= 12
  restick at ttmMinorStride= 1
  timearr = ispan (1,228,1)
  timearr at units = "months since 2000-01-01 00:00:00"
  time_axis_labels(timearr,res,restick)         ; this is line no. 154
  res at trXMaxF=max(timearr)


I get the following error on one of the machines:
fatal:["NclAtt.c":262]:Attribute assignment type mismatch.

fatal:["Execute.c":8637]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 214 in
file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/contrib/time_axis_labels.ncl

fatal:["Execute.c":8637]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 154 in
file noxtagging-stackedcontributions.ncl

Please let me know if you can spot something obviously wrong here. I'm
running NCL 6.6.2 on both machines.

Thanks.

kind regards,

Tabish
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Dr Tabish Ansari
Research Associate
Air Quality Modelling Group
Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) - Helmholtz Centre Potsdam
Potsdam, Germany
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