[gradsusr] Scatter plot

James T. Potemra jimp at hawaii.edu
Thu Apr 4 14:26:19 EDT 2013


Mary:

If you open one file, and do a "q dims", you should see all the 
dimensions.  Do you get the
exact same thing for both files (range and resolution, including for 
time)?   If not, you may
have to interpolate one to the other.

Jim

On 4/4/13 12:34 AM, Mary Ndlovu wrote:
> Hi.
>
> These are both .nc files. I think it has got to do something with the 
> grids (thanks for the heads up)... I figured out that the original 
> grids were
> file 1: Xsize = 360  Ysize = 180  Zsize = 1  Tsize = 1715
> file 2: Xsize = 720  Ysize = 360  Zsize = 1  Tsize = 1320
>
> Now i have since converted these to a T42 Gaussian grid, which means i 
> get for both
> Xsize = 128  Ysize = 64  Zsize = 1
>
> But now i get an error telling me that
> /Error plotting scatter plot:  Invalid grids
>    The two grids have difference scaling/. I am out of ideas now.
>
> Mary Ndlovu
> maryndlovu at aol.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James T. Potemra <jimp at hawaii.edu>
> To: GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr at gradsusr.org>
> Sent: Wed, Apr 3, 2013 10:44 pm
> Subject: Re: [gradsusr] Scatter plot
>
> Mary:
>
> This is likely because the two variables are on different grids.  The 
> file with SST is loaded first, and the RF file probably has a 
> different definition for x/y/z/t.  If you can't sort it out try send 
> the associated ctl files.
>
> Jim
>
> On 4/2/13 11:22 PM, Mary Ndlovu wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please help me. I am trying to plot a scatter plot from 2 different 
>> files. The 2 variables are sst; rf... so file 1 has sst, file 2 has 
>> rf. So when i do
>> 'd sst ; rf.2'
>> i get an error message
>> Data Request Error: Invalid grid coordinates
>>   World coordinates convert to non-integer grid coordinates
>>     Variable = rf.2  Dimension = 0
>>   Error ocurred at column 1
>> DISPLAY error:  Invalid expression
>>   Expression = rf.2
>>
>> I have tried to convert the file to be grads friendly... when i deal 
>> with this file on its own, everything works fine... but in the 
>> scatter plot it doesn't seem to work
>>
>> I have converted the grid
>>
>>
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