Re: [idvusers] Jython method for generating a change map sequence from a netCDF file

• To: Patrick Koethur <patrick.koethur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [idvusers] Jython method for generating a change map sequence from a netCDF file
• From: Don Murray <dmurray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:23:01 -0600

Hi Patrick-

makeTimeSequence expects an array of single time grids, e.g:

Time->((x,y)->param)

Your changeMapSequence array is the grids without the times, e.g:

(x,y)->param

Thus the error about domain size being 2 (x,y) instead of 1 (Time).

What do you want the result of your final fld to be in terms of
times?  Should it be t0 -> timeStepCount-1?

I'd try Bill Fingerhut's suggestion of using the timeStepDifference
function in the latest nightly build.

Don Murray

Patrick Koethur wrote:

Hi everyone,

I've tried to write a Jython method which calculates the changes in the numeric values of a variable in a netCDF file over time and returns a time sequence. The method I've written looks like this:

def computeSimpleChangeMap(twoDTimeSeries):
   # get the number of time steps
   timeStepCount = twoDTimeSeries.getDomainSet().getLength()
   changeMapSequence = []
   for t in range(timeStepCount):
       if t < (timeStepCount-1):

change = twoDTimeSeries.getSample(t+1) - twoDTimeSeries.getSample(t)

           changeMapSequence.append(change)
   fld = makeTimeSequence(changeMapSequence)
   return fld

However, when I run this method, I get the following error message:
" Traceback (innermost last):
File "<string>", line 1, in ?
File "<string>", line 121, in computeSimpleChangeMap
File "<string>", line 230, in makeTimeSequence
at visad.Set.<init>(Set.java:148)
at visad.SimpleSet.<init>(SimpleSet.java:58)
at visad.SampledSet.<init>(SampledSet.java:47)
at visad.GriddedSet.<init>(GriddedSet.java:72)
at visad.Gridded1DSet.<init>(Gridded1DSet.java:130)
at visad.Gridded1DDoubleSet.<init>(Gridded1DDoubleSet.java:107)
at visad.Gridded1DDoubleSet.create(Gridded1DDoubleSet.java:174)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)

visad.UnitException: visad.UnitException: Set: units dimension 1 does not match Domain dimension 2"

The dumpType() method returns the following information:

dumpType(twoDTimeSeries.getSample(0))
FunctionType:
Domain has 2 components:
0. RealType: Longitude
0. Name = Longitude
0. Unit: deg
1. RealType: Latitude
1. Name = Latitude
1. Unit: deg
Range:
RealType: zo[unit:m]
Name = zo[unit:m]
Unit: m

dumpType(twoDTimeSeries)
FunctionType:
Domain has 1 components:
0. RealType: Time
0. Name = Time
0. Unit: s since 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000 UTC
Range:
FunctionType:
Domain has 2 components:
0. RealType: Longitude
0. Name = Longitude
0. Unit: deg
1. RealType: Latitude
1. Name = Latitude
1. Unit: deg
Range:
RealType: zo[unit:m]
Name = zo[unit:m]
Unit: m

dumpType(changeMapSequence[0])
VisAD MathType analysis
FunctionType:
Domain has 2 components:
0. RealType: Longitude
0. Name = Longitude
0. Unit: deg
1. RealType: Latitude
1. Name = Latitude
1. Unit: deg
Range:
RealType: zo[unit:m]
Name = zo[unit:m]
Unit: m

dumpType(changeMapSequence)

Error: Traceback (innermost last): File "", line 1, in ? TypeError: dumpType(): 1st arg can't be coerced to visad.Data

I am able to generate the change map sequence manually by using the "Make a time sequence from single time grids/images" formula in combination with multiple "Simple difference a-b"formulas. Therefore, there must be a problem with the changeMapSequence variable. A simple Python list doesn't seem to be appropriate here. Does anyone know what kind of data type to use and how to construct it? Any help is much appreciated.

Best regards,
Patrick Koethur

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