Error creating matlab pcolor

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Madison
Madison on 23 Jul 2023
Answered: Voss on 23 Jul 2023
I am running into an error plotting temperature form my file (it contains data from Jan-March)
close all, clear all clc
% note I've renamed the files, call them what you like but they need to
% have the year in them to load in a loop
fp = 'C:\Users\Madison-Riley\Desktop\Thesis\Environmental_Data\Temperature';
ncdisp(fullfile(fp,'Temp_Q1(2020).nc'))
%look at one file to interrogate and understand dimensions and variables
% test=ncread([filepath,'June2021.nc'],'uo'); whos test
time = ncread(fullfile(fp,'Temp_Q1(2020).nc'),'time'); whos time
ntime=length(time);
lon=ncread(fullfile(fp,'Temp_Q1(2020).nc'),'longitude');
lat=ncread(fullfile(fp,'Temp_Q1(2020).nc'),'latitude');
[LON,LAT]=meshgrid(lon,lat);
bottomT=ncread(fullfile(fp,'Temp_Q1(2020).nc'),'bottomT'); whos utide
% dimensions lon*lat*depth*time
% https://uk.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/ncread.html
% try different depth layers here, why is the land extent so different?
bottomTtest=ncread(fullfile(fp,'Temp_Q1(2020).nc'),'bottomT',[1 1 1],[length(lon) length(lat) 1 1]);
close all
pcolor(LON,LAT,bottomT.'), shading flat, colorbar
I get the following Error:
Error using internal.matlab.imagesci.nc/read
COUNT has incorrect number of elements (4). The variable has 3 dimensions.
Error in ncread (line 76)
vardata = ncObj.read(varName, varargin{:});
Error in Temp_Q1_20 (line 22)
bottomTtest=ncread(fullfile(fp,'Temp_Q1(2020).nc'),'bottomT',[1 1 1],[length(lon) length(lat) 1 1]);

Accepted Answer

Voss
Voss on 23 Jul 2023
The error message indicates that the error is generated by this line:
bottomTtest=ncread(fullfile(fp,'Temp_Q1(2020).nc'),'bottomT',[1 1 1],[length(lon) length(lat) 1 1]);
The error is due to the fact that you've specified 3 start values but 4 count values
bottomTtest=ncread(fullfile(fp,'Temp_Q1(2020).nc'),'bottomT',[1 1 1],[length(lon) length(lat) 1 1]);
% ^^^^^^^ 3 starts
% ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 4 counts
just like the error message says: "COUNT has incorrect number of elements (4). The variable has 3 dimensions."

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