<p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;">Sorry Dennis,</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;">I forgot your golden rule: always look at your data! I was trying to open a 156 annual-mean time steps file believing it was a 1752 monthly-mean time steps file. That's why the subscript was out of range. The command slp  = SLP(:,:,{-10:10},{135:270}) works perfectly.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;">Thanks for your help,</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;">Giorgio</span><br><br> </p><blockquote><p>------ Messaggio Originale ------<br>Da: shea@ucar.edu<br>A: g.graffino@tim.it Cc: ncl-talk@ucar.edu<br>Inviato: giovedì 22 giugno 2023 03:12<br>Oggetto: Re: [ncl-talk] Unable to read files with addfiles<br> </p><div dir="ltr"><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">mslp = mslp_file[:]->slp(:,20*12:155*12+12-1,{-10:10},{135:270})</span><br> </p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="gmail-im">fatal:["NclFile.c":2100]:Subscript out of range, error in subscript #0</span></span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="gmail-im">fatal:Memory allocation failure:[errno=12]</span></span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">fatal:["Execute.c":8635]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 36</span></p><p> ------------------------------</p><p>Ummmm ....  <span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="gmail-im">subscript #0 is the leftmost subscript</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="gmail-im">The ":" means all of the leftmost indices.  It should not be "out of range"</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="gmail-im">Sorry but more information is needed.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="gmail-im">SLP = mslp_file[:]->slp</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="gmail-im">printVarSummary(SLP)   ;   I assume 4 subscripts; SLP</span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="gmail-im">(</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="gmail-im">ncl_join , time, lat , lon )</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="gmail-im">slp  = SLP(:,:,{-10:10},{135:270})</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="gmail-im">printVarSummary(slp) </span></span><br> </p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="gmail-im">====</span></span></p><p><br> </p><p><br> </p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="gmail-im">MSLP= mslp_file[:]->slp(:, :,{-10:10},{135:270})</span></span></p><p><br> </p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;"><span class="gmail-im">mslp = mslp_file[:]->slp(:,20*12:155*12+12-1,{-10:10},{135:270})</span></span></p><p><br> </p><p><br> </p></div><p><br> </p><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 11:42 AM Giorgio Graffino <<a href="mailto:g.graffino@tim.it"><span class="wt_Email">g.graffino@tim.it</span></a>> wrote:<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1.0px solid rgb(204,204,204);margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1.0ex;"><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">Hi Dennis,</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">Thanks for your reply. I just realized that I skipped one line in the list of commands, which is the one actually triggering the error. Please see the list of commands below, plus the one you asked me to run.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">dir = "/home/users/ggraffin/CMIP5/"</span><br> </p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">mslp_list = systemfunc("ls "+dir+"historical/MPI-ESM1.1/MPI-ESM1.1_historical_lkm011*</span><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://mslp_commongrid.nc"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">mslp_commongrid.nc</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">")</span><br> </p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">print(mslp_list)                                                                                            </span></p><p><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">Variable: mslp_list</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">Type: string</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">Total Size: 80 bytes</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">           10 values</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">Number of Dimensions: 1</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">Dimensions and sizes:    [10]</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">Coordinates: </span><br><span style="font-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ical_lkm0116_mslp_commongrid.nc</span></a><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">Number of global attributes:     7</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">Number of dimensions:     4</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">Number of variables:     5</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">List Item 7:    NclFileVarClass</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">Variable: unnamed</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">Type: file</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">File path:    /home/users/ggraffin/CMIP5/historical/MPI-ESM1.1/</span><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://MPI-ESM1.1_historical_lkm0117_mslp_commongrid.nc"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">MPI-ESM1.1_historical_lkm0117_mslp_commongrid.nc</span></a><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">Number of global attributes:     7</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">Number of dimensions:     4</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">Number of variables:     5</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">List Item 8:    NclFileVarClass</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">Variable: unnamed</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">Type: file</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">File path:    /home/users/ggraffin/CMIP5/historical/MPI-ESM1.1/</span><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://MPI-ESM1.1_historical_lkm0118_mslp_commongrid.nc"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">MPI-ESM1.1_historical_lkm0118_mslp_commongrid.nc</span></a><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">Number of global attributes:     7</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">Number of dimensions:     4</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">Number of variables:     5</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">List Item 9:    NclFileVarClass</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">Variable: unnamed</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">Type: file</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">File path:    /home/users/ggraffin/CMIP5/historical/MPI-ESM1.1/</span><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://MPI-ESM1.1_historical_lkm0119_mslp_commongrid.nc"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">MPI-ESM1.1_historical_lkm0119_mslp_commongrid.nc</span></a><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">Number of global attributes:     7</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">Number of dimensions:     4</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">Number of variables:     5</span></p><p><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">ListSetType(mslp_file,"join")</span></p><p><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">mslp = mslp_file[:]->slp(:,20*12:155*12+12-1,{-10:10},{135:270})</span><br> </p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">fatal:["NclFile.c":2100]:Subscript out of range, error in subscript #0</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">fatal:Memory allocation failure:[errno=12]</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">fatal:["Execute.c":8635]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 36</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">Cheers,</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;">Giorgio</span><br> </p><blockquote><p>------ Messaggio Originale ------<br>Da: <a href="mailto:shea@ucar.edu" target="_blank"><span class="wt_Email">shea@ucar.edu</span></a><br>A: <a href="mailto:g.graffino@tim.it" target="_blank"><span class="wt_Email">g.graffino@tim.it</span></a> Cc: <a href="mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu" target="_blank"><span class="wt_Email">ncl-talk@ucar.edu</span></a><br>Inviato: martedì 20 giugno 2023 19:40<br>Oggetto: Re: [ncl-talk] Unable to read files with addfiles<br> </p><div dir="ltr"><div>I can not see an obvious issue.</div><div> </div><div>Given and the "join" option <br> </div><div> </div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">     time = 156  // unlimited</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">     bnds = 2</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">     lon = 180</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">     lat = 120</span></div><div><br> </div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">and, say, 10 ensembles, the slp variable should be</span></div><div><br> </div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">   slp(</span>ncl_join , time, lat , lon ) <span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">    => slp(10,156,120,180) </span><br> </div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">================================================</span><br> </div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">What do the following 'print' statements show?  </span><br> </div><div><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">mslp_list = systemfunc("ls /home/users/ggraffin/CMIP5/historical/MPI-ESM1.1/MPI-ESM1.1_historical_lkm011*</span><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://mslp_commongrid.nc"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">mslp_commongrid.nc</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">")</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">print(mslp_list)    ; <========   </span><br> </p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">mslp_file = addfiles(mslp_list,"r")</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">print(mslp_file)    ; <========</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">ListSetType(mslp_file,"join")</span></p></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></div></div><p><br> </p><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 11:37 AM Giorgio Graffino via ncl-talk <<a href="mailto:ncl-talk@mailman.ucar.edu" target="_blank"><span class="wt_Email">ncl-talk@mailman.ucar.edu</span></a>> wrote:<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1.0px solid rgb(204,204,204);margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1.0ex;"><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">Hello NCL people,</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">I'm trying to read files from the MPI-ESM1.1 large ensemble with addfiles. I'm always getting the same error, regardless of the sample size, so it shouldn't be an actual memory issue.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">mslp_list = systemfunc("ls /home/users/ggraffin/CMIP5/historical/MPI-ESM1.1/MPI-ESM1.1_historical_lkm011*</span><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://mslp_commongrid.nc"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">mslp_commongrid.nc</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">")</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">mslp_file = addfiles(mslp_list,"r")</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">ListSetType(mslp_file,"join")</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">fatal:["NclFile.c":2100]:Subscript out of range, error in subscript #0</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">fatal:Memory allocation failure:[errno=12]</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">I can't even use functions like getfiledimsizes or getfileatts, because I get the following error. </span><br><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">dsizes = getfileatts(mslp_file(0)) </span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">fatal:Argument type mismatch on argument (0) of (getfileatts) can not coerce </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">Both mslp_file and mslp_list have 10 elements as they should.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">printVarSummary(mslp_file)          </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">Variable: mslp_file</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">Type: list <join | fifo></span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">Total items: 10</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">printVarSummary(mslp_list)</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">Variable: mslp_list</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">Type: string</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">Total Size: 80 bytes</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">           10 values</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">Number of Dimensions: 1</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">Dimensions and sizes:    [10]</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">Coordinates: </span><br> </p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">I'm sure it's a file-dependent issue, because addfiles works fine on subset of files from other sources. I'm asking for suggestions about things I can try so I can understand what's going on. Here is the file dump of one of the files.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">Copyright (C) 1995-2019 - All Rights Reserved</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">University Corporation for Atmospheric Research</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">NCAR Command Language Version 6.6.2</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:1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pt;">)</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">  dimensions:</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">     time = 156  // unlimited</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">     bnds = 2</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">     lon = 180</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">     lat = 120</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">  variables:</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">     float time ( time )</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">        axis :    T</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">        bounds :    time_bnds</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">        calendar :    proleptic_gregorian</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">        standard_name :    time</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">        units :    day as %Y%m%d.%f</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">     double time_bnds ( time, bnds )</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">     double lon ( lon )</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">        standard_name :    longitude</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">        long_name :    longitude</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">        units :    degrees_east</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">        axis :    X</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">     double lat ( lat )</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">        standard_name :    latitude</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">        long_name :    latitude</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">        units :    degrees_north</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">        axis :    Y</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">     float slp ( time, lat, lon )</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">        long_name :    mean sea level pressure</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">        units :    Pa</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">        code :    151</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">        table :    128</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">Thanks a lot.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12.0pt;">Giorgio</span></p><p>_______________________________________________<br>ncl-talk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ncl-talk@mailman.ucar.edu" target="_blank"><span class="wt_Email">ncl-talk@mailman.ucar.edu</span></a><br>List instructions, subscriber options, unsubscribe:<br><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-talk">https://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-talk</a><br> </p></blockquote></div></blockquote></blockquote></div></blockquote>