Slide sorter should allow xy averaged time series for ensembles

[karlmsmith]

Reported by @kevin-obrien on 10 Jan 2008 00:24 UTC

When using SlideSorter in single experiment mode, if I define a variable (which has no z axis) as an xy average, and then ask for a time series - SlideSorter rightly gives a message that basically, no comparison can be done on such a variable.

However, when the dataset in question is an ensemble of model runs, there are comparisons to be done between the averaged variable in the different models. What slidesorter does then is actually get an error:

**ERROR: dimensions improperly specified: specified data is not a line

• its a 3D region: "PLOT /NOKEY/SET/TITLE="Surface Air Temperature (tas; air_temperature) (K)" tas[d=1,T="01-Jan-1996 00:00:00":"01-Dec-2000 00:00:00"]" PLOT /NOKEY/SET/TITLE="Surface Air Temperature (tas; air_temperature) (K)" tas[d=1,T="01-Jan-1996 00:00:00":"01-Dec-2000 00:00:00"] Command file, command group, or REPEAT execution aborted STOP -script mode, ERROR RUNNING SCRIPT statement executed

It looks like the averaging on the TAS variable is not being applied, and therefore ferret thinks it's a 3-D variable..

Migrated-From: http://dunkel.pmel.noaa.gov/trac/las/ticket/345

[karlmsmith]

Modified by jonathan.s.callahan on 7 Feb 2008 22:51 UTC