Problem to open netcdf files from NARR!

[Don Hooper]

I made a mistake in my DDF; the 29 after apcp should be 0 (in the
VARS-ENDVARS section at the end).

-Hoop
> From owner-gradsusr at LIST.CINECA.IT  Mon Dec 18 13:40:31 2006
>
> Don Hooper,
>
> It worked!. Thank you very much for your response.
>
> Matias
>
>
>
> El lun, 18-12-2006 a las 11:49 -0700, Don Hooper escribió:
> > Matias,
> >
> > The sdfopen/xdfopen code can't handle this file, but the "dtype netcdf"
> > stuff for a DDF for use with the "open" command can in 1.9.  Here's a
> > sample DDF for that purpose:
> > DSET /path/to/apcp.mon.mean.nc
> > DTYPE netcdf
> > TITLE NARR 4D field lambert conformal projection
> > UNDEF -9999.0 missing_value
> > UNPACK scale_factor add_offset
> > PDEF 349 277 lcc 1 -145.5 1 1 50 50 -107 32463.41 32463.41
> > XDEF 205 linear 150 1
> > YDEF 85 linear 2 1
> > ZDEF 1 levels 0
> > tdef 312 linear 00z1jan1979 1mo
> > vars 3
> > apcp 29 t,y,x  Precip
> > lat=>glat 0 y,x Latitude
> > lon=>glon 0 y,x Longitude
> > endvars
> >
> > Good luck,
> > -Hoop
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> > > Date:         Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:37:05 -0600
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> > > Subject:      Problem to open netcdf files from NARR!
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> > >       Rule breakdown below
> > >        pts rule name              description
> > >       ---- ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------
> > > X-Lines: 19
> > >
> > > Hello GrADS users,
> > >
> > > I downloaded North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) data in netcdf
> > > format from this page:
> > >
> > > http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/cdc/data.narr.html
> > >
> > > But when I tried to open file (gradsnc -lc "sdfopen apcp.mon.mean.nc"),
> > > I got the following error message:
> > >
> > > SDF file has no discernable X coordinate.apcp.mon.mean.nc
> > >
> > > I'm using GrADS v1.8SL11.
> > >
> > > Has anybody used these NARR files?, how can I solve this problem?.
> > >
> > > Suggestions or solutions are welcome. Thank very much.
> > >
> > > Matias
> > >
> >
>