Re: plotting correct depth/lat - not points

Hi Michael,

could you be more specific and send a 'ncdump -h' output from your data file (if it is not to long)
and your NCL script. It is impossible to say something which we don't know and can't see.

Bye,
Karin
 
Am 27.05.2014 um 15:40 schrieb Michael Hemming <michael.hemming@mpimet.mpg.de>:

> Is it an attribute problem? (i.e. the fill value is missing?) I tried to use:
>
> a = getfilevaratts(data,"slp")
>
> but it gave:
>
> Variable: amoca
> Type: string
> Total Size: 8 bytes
> 1 values
> Number of Dimensions: 1
> Dimensions and sizes: [1]
> Coordinates:
> Number Of Attributes: 1
> _FillValue : missing
> (0) missing
>
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [ncl-talk] plotting correct depth/lat - not points
> Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 15:19:24 +0200
> From: Michael Hemming <michael.hemming@mpimet.mpg.de>
> To: ncl-talk@ucar.edu Talk <ncl-talk@ucar.edu>
>
> I printed the variable:
>
> Number of global attributes: 2
> Number of Dimension: 3
> Number of variables: 4
>
> res looks like:
>
> res = True
> res@tiMainString = "Sea water potential temperature (Deg C) with depth"
>
> res@gsnSpreadColors = True
> res@cnFillOn = True
> res@cnLinesOn = False
> res@trYReverse = True
>
> thanks,
> Michael
>
>
> On 26/05/2014 14:34, Dennis Shea wrote:
>> ferret must be getting information from somewhere.
>> There is too little information in your post to
>> provide an answer.
>>
>> ---
>>
>> What meta data is associated with the variable 'a' ?
>>
>> printVarSummary(a)
>>
>> What does 'res' look like?
>>
>> ---
>>
>>
>> On 5/26/14, 4:30 AM, Michael Hemming wrote:
>>> Hey everyone,
>>>
>>> I have a netcdf file that looks like this:
>>>
>>> AMOC: j x k = 180 x 21 = lat x depth (curvilinear grid)
>>>
>>> I want to create a contour plot that shows AMOC values with depth,
>>> however, when I try to do this, it plots lat as 1:180 and depth as 1:21.
>>> When using Ferret, I get the correct lat and depth values automatically
>>> shown.
>>>
>>> So my question is: how can I make ncl do what ferret does?
>>>
>>> after loading in the data and assigning the variable etc... I use:
>>>
>>>
>>> /wks = gsn_open_wks("x11", "AMOC_plot")//
>>> //gsn_define_colormap(wks,"B1WhRe")//
>>> ////
>>> //plot = gsn_csm_contour(wks,a,res)/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> Michael
>>>
>>>
>>>
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