Re: Error while accessing RANGS, please respond

From: Alberto Mario Striedinger Pinilla <astriedinger_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Sat Dec 14 2013 - 15:17:11 MST

Hello to all,

sorry to disturb again. I already tried that, and again now, with no good
results. I will try reinstalling the binary libraries just in case. =/

Alberto M. Striedinger. P.
Student Intern Researcher at MeteoConsult .NL.
MSc. Sustainable Energy Technology
Eindhoven University of Technology
BSc.Mechanical Engineering
Universidad del Norte & USF
+31

On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 11:04 PM, Karin Meier-Fleischer <
meier-fleischer@dkrz.de> wrote:

> Hi Alberto,
>
> I think you must unset the NCARG_RANGS environment variable if you have
> all the ranges files
> in the recommended directory.
>
> Bye,
> Karin
>
>
> Am 14.12.2013 um 22:24 schrieb Alberto Mario Striedinger Pinilla <
> astriedinger@gmail.com>:
>
> Hello Karin, and all
>
>
> Thank you very much for the fast response XD. As you show in you
> directory. I do have the same. My rangs are located in the same directory,
> and I have even set en environment variable NCARG_RANGS to the location.
>
> My environment variables in my .bashrc are :
> export NCARG_ROOT=/usr/local/ncl-6.1.2
> export NCARG_RANGS=/usr/local/ncl-6.1.2/lib/ncarg/database/rangs
>
> And doing ll in my rangs directory I have the same:
> alberto@alberto-ThinkPad-W520/usr/local/ncl-6.1.2/lib/ncarg/database/rangs $ ll
> total 137644
> -rw-r--r-- 1 alberto alberto 89496428 mei 13 1997 gshhs(0).rim
> -rw-r--r-- 1 alberto alberto 20775224 mei 13 1997 gshhs(1).rim
> -rw-r--r-- 1 alberto alberto 5099196 mei 13 1997 gshhs(2).rim
> -rw-r--r-- 1 alberto alberto 1109192 mei 13 1997 gshhs(3).rim
> -rw-r--r-- 1 alberto alberto 170948 mei 13 1997 gshhs(4).rim
> -rw-r--r-- 1 alberto alberto 259200 mei 6 1997 rangs(0).cat
> -rw-r--r-- 1 alberto alberto 6518664 feb 1 1999 rangs(0).cel
> -rw-r--r-- 1 alberto alberto 259200 mei 6 1997 rangs(1).cat
> -rw-r--r-- 1 alberto alberto 5945492 feb 1 1999 rangs(1).cel
> -rw-r--r-- 1 alberto alberto 259200 mei 6 1997 rangs(2).cat
> -rw-r--r-- 1 alberto alberto 4062215 feb 1 1999 rangs(2).cel
> -rw-r--r-- 1 alberto alberto 259200 mei 5 1997 rangs(3).cat
> -rw-r--r-- 1 alberto alberto 3398642 feb 1 1999 rangs(3).cel
> -rw-r--r-- 1 alberto alberto 259200 mei 5 1997 rangs(4).cat
> -rw-r--r-- 1 alberto alberto 3045848 jan 29 1999 rangs(4).cel
>
>
> As you can see , the only difference is the permission in the files, they
> are read for all the other users. But since I am the only one as this is my
> personal pc.
>
> Thanks again for your response and the colour set up work this time XD.
> HAve a nice evening
>
>
>
>
> Alberto M. Striedinger. P.
> Student Intern Researcher at MeteoConsult .NL.
> MSc. Sustainable Energy Technology
> Eindhoven University of Technology
> BSc.Mechanical Engineering
> Universidad del Norte & USF
> +31
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Karin Meier-Fleischer <
> meier-fleischer@dkrz.de> wrote:
>
>> Dear Alberto,
>>
>> *Problem 1*: the RANGS/GSHHS files should be stored in
>> $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/database/rangs directory.
>>
>> >> ls -la $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/database/rangs
>> total 275296
>> drwxr-xr-x 18 k204045 staff 612 14 Okt 16:44 .
>> drwxr-xr-x@ 33 k204045 staff 1122 14 Okt 16:44 ..
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 k204045 staff 89496428 14 Okt 16:44 gshhs(0).rim
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 k204045 staff 20775224 14 Okt 16:44 gshhs(1).rim
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 k204045 staff 5099196 14 Okt 16:44 gshhs(2).rim
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 k204045 staff 1109192 14 Okt 16:44 gshhs(3).rim
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 k204045 staff 170948 14 Okt 16:44 gshhs(4).rim
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 k204045 staff 259200 14 Okt 16:44 rangs(0).cat
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 k204045 staff 6518664 14 Okt 16:44 rangs(0).cel
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 k204045 staff 259200 14 Okt 16:44 rangs(1).cat
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 k204045 staff 5945492 14 Okt 16:44 rangs(1).cel
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 k204045 staff 259200 14 Okt 16:44 rangs(2).cat
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 k204045 staff 4062215 14 Okt 16:44 rangs(2).cel
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 k204045 staff 259200 14 Okt 16:44 rangs(3).cat
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 k204045 staff 3398642 14 Okt 16:44 rangs(3).cel
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 k204045 staff 259200 14 Okt 16:44 rangs(4).cat
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 k204045 staff 3045848 14 Okt 16:44 rangs(4).cel
>>
>> If you don't want to install the RANGS files in the recommended
>> directory, you can set the environment variable
>> NCARG_RANGS to the directory containing the files.
>>
>>
>> *Problem 2*: You generate the contour plot before you have defined a
>> colormap, so NCL will take the default
>> colormap.
>>
>> To use the colormap with gsn_define_colormap move the call upward to the
>> line below line 298.
>>
>> wks = gsn_open_wks(type,psoutfilename)
>> gsn_define_colormap(wks,"WhViBlGrYeOrReWh")
>>
>> Bye,
>> Karin
>>
>>
>> Am 14.12.2013 um 21:14 schrieb Alberto Mario Striedinger Pinilla <
>> astriedinger@gmail.com>:
>>
>> ​Dear all,
>>
>> I am having 2 problems when plotting contour maps of a variable with ncl
>> 6.1.2. Please let me know what could be causing these to happen:
>>
>> Problem 1:
>> I am plotting while accessing RANGS. I have no problem if I use the
>> medium or low resolutions. But once I try to use RANGS I get these errors:
>>
>> fatal:MapRGDHDrawMapList: MDRGOL/MDRGOF - ERROR OPENING RANGS/GSHHS CAT
>> FILE
>> fatal:PlotManagerPostDraw: error in plot post-draw
>> fatal:_NhlPlotManagerDraw: PostDraw error
>>
>>
>> I thought the problem was permissions and ownership, but all folders and
>> files (including .nc files) are not restricted.
>> At the end I do get the plot I want but, the coast lines do not appear,
>> and the labels, titles, and other texts in the plot do not appear either.
>>
>> Problem 2:
>> This may be a trivial problem, but I Say it anyway​
>> ​My colour scale is nit working properly, I am using the colour name :
>> gsn_define_colormap(wks,"
>> WhViBlGrYeOrReWh") --line : 347 in the code
>> But the colours appearing are not those set in the NCL website. THe NCL
>> default colours do work though.
>> ------
>>
>> The RANGS in my directory are all in the same folder rangs, and where
>> recently replaced yesterday just in case I happened to have bad files, but
>> that did not help either.
>>
>> I am providing two plot files, one that works under the lower
>> resolutions, and the one using RANGS.
>> I am providing the code I used, the file from the variable comes from,
>> and this is the code line I used when executing the commands on bash:
>>
>> ./contour_var_thanet.sh
>> ~/Documents/thanet/test/wrfout_d03_2010-03-19_00\:00\:00 y y 51.27 1.27
>> 51.67 1.8333 HFX 0 nc -62 -45 2
>>
>> where : ~/Documents/thanet/test/wrfout_d03_2010-03-19_00\:00\:00 is the
>> file location
>> where: y y 51.27 1.27 51.67 1.8333 HFX 0 nc -62 -45 2 is the input to
>> my code.
>> The code line wehre I use the map resources for the RANGS is : --line 282
>>
>> I thank you in advance, and look for your response.
>>
>> ​
>> wrfout_d03_2010-03-19_00:00:00<https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwvkUSU9qTmzZ045NWF3LW1DNUU/edit?usp=drive_web>
>> ​
>>
>> ​
>> Alberto M. Striedinger. P.
>> Student Intern Researcher at MeteoConsult .NL.
>> MSc. Sustainable Energy Technology
>> Eindhoven University of Technology
>> BSc.Mechanical Engineering
>> Universidad del Norte & USF
>> +31
>>
>>
>> ​
>> <contour_var_thanet.sh><wrfout_d03_2010-03-19_00_00_00_contour_HFX_0.ps>
>> <wrfout_d03_2010-03-19_00_00_00_contour_HFX_0_RANGS.ps>
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>> Karin Meier-Fleischer
>>
>> Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH
>>
>> Application Support
>> Visualization
>>
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>>
>> E-Mail: meier-fleischer@dkrz.de
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>>
>>
>>
>
> _________________________________
> Karin Meier-Fleischer
>
> Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH
>
> Application Support
> Visualization
>
> Bundesstrasse 45a
> D-20146 Hamburg, Germany
>
> E-Mail: meier-fleischer@dkrz.de
> Internet: http://www.dkrz.de/
> Phone: +49 40 460094 126
> Fax: +49 40 460094 270
>
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