<div dir="ltr"><div>Oops, I forgot that you are making a scatter plot. This means that you need an X axis that is linear in time. Therefore, you must use a numeric time line, not a decimal coded time line. So use the method that I mentioned first, to convert both inputs to a common time line such as "days since".</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 29, 2026 at 10:53 AM Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate <<a href="mailto:dave.allured@noaa.gov">dave.allured@noaa.gov</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Put both the obs and model data on a common time line. For the obs (station) data, it looks like you need to combine the year number into the calculation. You did not show any time information for the model data, but I am sure it is something simple like "days since" or "hours since". I suggest convert both to "days since", since the obs data is already based on day numbers.</div><div><br></div><div>Also when calculating the new time lines, you must pick a common starting point. I suggest YYYY January 1, where YYYY is the starting year of either data set.</div><div><br></div><div>Alternatively, you could use a decimal coded time line such as YYYYDDD or YYYYMMDD, rather than a pure numeric time line. With this type, dates are absolute in one sense, so there is no need to pick a common starting date.</div><div><br></div><div>For the scatter plot, you compare both time lines and pick out the dates in common. This is possible with any kind of time line, as long as both are computed accurately, and roundoff error is resolved. My final advice is, pick whichever method seems easiest to create the time lines.</div><div><br></div><div>NCL has date functions to assist with creating and converting time lines.</div><div><a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/date.shtml" target="_blank">https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/date.shtml</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 27, 2026 at 2:20 PM Debasish Hazra via ncl-talk <<a href="mailto:ncl-talk@mailman.ucar.edu" target="_blank">ncl-talk@mailman.ucar.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div>I am trying to plot a scatter plot using Ncl and plotting daily averaged station data vs model output using more than 2 years data. However, I am seeing more than one data gaps in station data, like below (first value is in Julian days, second is precip value for a station of that day), but model data has values in all days. </div><div><br></div><div>350,0.418833<br>351,0.494576<br>355,0.389460<br>356,0.406334<br></div><div>...SNIP...</div><div>362,0.113083<br>363,0.124250<br>364,0.081895<br>365,0.159218<br> 2,0.125749<br> 3,0.217326<br> 4,0.276310</div><div><br></div><div>How to match those two data set in terms of exact days before the scatter plot ? Any help ? </div><div>Thanks</div><div>Debasish</div></div>
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