Reading NARR netCDF data in GrADS 1.9 for windows

Adam K. Gobena agobena at UALBERTA.CA
Tue Jun 3 17:12:23 EDT 2008


I am trying to display NARR netCDF data in Grads 1.9 for Windows. It looks
like it does not recognize the 'add offset' value in the header file. I am
wodering if there is a fix for this problem. Here is the output:

C:\GrADS19\works>grads
Starting X server under /Xming
Starting grads under c:\GrADS19\win32 ...

Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) Version 1.9.0-rc1
Copyright (c) 1988-2007 by Brian Doty and IGES
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)
Institute for Global Environment and Society (IGES)
GrADS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
See file COPYRIGHT for more information

Config: v1.9.0-rc1 32-bit little-endian readline sdf/xdf netcdf dap dap-st
 athena printim

Issue 'q config' command for more information.

Landscape mode? (no for portrait):
GX Package Initialization: Size = 11 8.5
ga-> open plo3.ddf
Scanning description file:  plo3.ddf
Data file air.2m.mon.mean.nc is open as file 1
LON set to 150 354.462
LAT set to 2 86.582
LEV set to 0 0
Time values set: 1979:1:1:0 1979:1:1:0
Notice: Implied interpolation for file plo3.ddf
 Interpolation will be performed on any data displayed from this file
ga-> d air
Notice:  Automatic Grid Interpolation Taking Place
" -- using -9999 insteadeve "missing_value
Warning: Could not retrieve add offset -- setting to 0.0
Contouring: -20 to 120 interval 20



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