Sdf time units

Ghan, Steven J Steve.Ghan at PNL.GOV
Thu Jan 20 19:40:41 EST 2005


Time is zero at all times. That would certainly explain the problem.
Thanks for your insight.

-Steve Ghan

-----Original Message-----
From: Don Hooper [mailto:hoop at Colorado.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 4:33 PM
To: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT
Cc: Ghan, Steven J
Subject: Re: Sdf time units


Steve Ghan,

What are the first two values of the time coordinate variable? It
computes the difference between the two, using the units attribute, to
decide whether to print that error message.

-Hoop
> From owner-gradsusr at LIST.CINECA.IT  Thu Jan 20 17:30:08 2005
> From: "Ghan, Steven J" <Steve.Ghan at PNL.GOV>
>
> I've created a netcdf file with time units attribute defined as
>
> time:units  = 'days since 1980-11-1 00:00:00 '
>
> But sdfopen yields the result
>
> SDF: Time unit has too small an increment for use with GrADS (min,
> 1minute).
>
> According to all of the documentation I have seen, it should have
> worked. Any ideas?
>
> I'm using grads 1.8 on a redhat 7.3 system.
>
> -Steve Ghan



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