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Re: IDL to write GrADS netCDF (SDF) [message #77624 is a reply to message #77623]

Thu, 15 September 2011 08:15

msienkiewicz
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On Sep 15, 4:51 am, Rich Bantges <rbant...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 14, 8:47 pm, Brian Wolven <brian.wol...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'd suggest looking at the example in the IDL documentation for NCDF_VARPUT, leaving out some of the "extra" stuff in the middle where they rename a dimension, etc. That example has all of the basic commands.
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> Thanks, but when I follow that example (without the dimension etc.)
> GrADS reports:
> ga-> sdfopen test_grads_file.nc
> Scanning self-describing file: test_grads_file.nc
> gadsdf: SDF file has no discernable X coordinate.
>
> If you could paste an example that does work, that would be great.
>
> Rich

Rich, it sounds like the netCDF files that you are creating are not
COARDS compliant. Maybe you could try using 'xdfopen' in GrADS
(http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradcomdxdfopen.html) and use a data
descriptor file to help GrADS interpret your file.

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		Re: IDL to write GrADS netCDF (SDF) By: David Fanning on Fri, 16 September 2011 07:01
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		Re: IDL to write GrADS netCDF (SDF) By: msienkiewicz on Thu, 15 September 2011 08:15
		Re: IDL to write GrADS netCDF (SDF) By: Rich Bantges on Thu, 15 September 2011 01:51
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		Re: IDL to write GrADS netCDF (SDF) By: Rich Bantges on Fri, 16 September 2011 01:33
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