about bad data

[Muyin Wang <muyin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, I have a strange problem here:
 I have generated a data set which contains monthly means of Temp on each level
(k=10). Then, I like to computer the decadal means from the monthly mean series.
A strange thing is that after computing the mean, the bad/void data are filled
with values of -99999. I cann't do contours then. What should I do? Below I
attach some listings from ferret. I have set var/bad=-100000. in the original
data set.
Thanks,
Muyin


yes? let xm=tnew[l=6:209@ave]

yes? list/i=1:20/j=1/k=10/l=1 tnew,xm
             DATA SET: ./tovs_mon_temp.crn
             X: -1 to -0.4
             Y: -1
             HEIGHT (mb): 900
 Column  1: TNEW[T=15-AUG-1979 00:00] is TNEW
 Column  2: XM[T=29-DEC-1979 23:46:30-DEC-1996 05:18] is TNEW[L=6:209@AVE]
            TNEW      XM 
-1     /  1: .... -99999.
-0.97  /  2: .... -99999.
-0.939 /  3: .... -99999.
-0.909 /  4: .... -99999.
-0.879 /  5: .... -99999.
-0.848 /  6: .... -99999.
-0.818 /  7: .... -99999.
-0.788 /  8: .... -99999.
-0.758 /  9: .... -99999.
-0.727 / 10: .... -99999.
-0.697 / 11: .... -99999.
-0.667 / 12: .... -99999.
-0.636 / 13: .... -99999.
-0.606 / 14: .... -99999.
-0.576 / 15: .... -99999.
-0.545 / 16: .... -99999.
-0.515 / 17: .... -99999.
-0.485 / 18: .... -99999.
-0.455 / 19: .... -99999.
-0.424 / 20: .... -99999.
yes?



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