Thanks for the help! I added one line to the following and it worked:
  yyyymm = f->time
  yyyy   = yyyymm/100
yyyy = floor(yyyy)
  mm     = yyyymm - (yyyy*100)
  imm    = ind(mm.ge.9 .and. mm.le.11)
  x      = f->X(imm,:,:)
  printVarSummary(x)
  print(x&time)
-Bronwen
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Dennis Shea <shea@ucar.edu> wrote:
> Another approach
>
>   yyyymm = f->time
>   yyyy   = yyyymm/100
>   mm     = yyyymm - (yyyy*100)
>   imm    = ind(mm.ge.9 .and. mm.le.11)
>
>   x      = f->X(imm,:,:)
>   printVarSummary(x)
>   print(x&time)
>
>
>
>
> On 01/30/2013 04:39 PM, Will Hobbs wrote:
>
>> Bronwen
>>
>> Assuming you have an array x, dimensioned (time,lat,lon), where the time
>> coord is an integer array of YYYYMM dates:
>>
>>  >yr = ispan(yrst, yren, 1)     ; an integer array of all years in the
>> series
>>
>>  > nyr = yren-yrst+1
>>  >yrmon = new(nyr*3,"integer")   ;an array which will hold the date of
>> every month of interest
>>
>>  >yr = yr*100
>>  >yrmon(::3)  = yr +9    ; take any year (e.g. 1850), multiply by 100
>> (=185000) then add the month of interest (in this case September) =
>> 185009 i.e. the YYYYMM date for all the septembers
>>  >yrmon(1::3) = yr+10  ;October
>>  >yrmon(2::3)   = yr+11  ;November
>>
>>  >print(yrmon) ; yrmon should look something like
>> (/185009,185010,185011, 185109 …../)
>>
>>
>>  >xSeas = x({yrmon},:,:)    ; select all months of interest from x
>>
>>
>> Will
>>
>> From: Bronwen Konecky <bronwen_konecky@brown.edu
>> <mailto:bronwen_konecky@brown.**edu <bronwen_konecky@brown.edu>>>
>>
>> Date: Thursday, 31 January 2013 10:27 AM
>> To: ncl-talk <ncl-talk@ucar.edu <mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu>>
>>
>> Subject: Subsetting series of specific months out of YYYYMM
>> data
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Apologies for a fairly novice question: I am trying to pull out months
>> from a specific season from a file(time,lat,lon) that contains 130 years
>> of monthly data (all months) in YYYYMM format (1560 time points). So I
>> want a new file that contains e.g. months 9-11 from all years in the
>> file (e.g. 187009, 187010, 187011, 187109, 187110, 187111, etc), for all
>> lats and lons. I have tried various combinations of do loops and array
>> selections using 'ind' but I think I must be missing something basic.
>> Any advice?
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> -Bronwen
>>
>>
>>
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