[gradsusr] Error in opening NetCDF file

[Muhammad Rahiz]

Hi,

I have this error recently. For my file, there were two problems.
1 - each variable in my netcdf file has two grid descriptions.
2 - missing 'axis' attribute for the coordinate variables.

I can't remember what I did but I think I changed the grid description and 
regridded the data, both in CDO. If you could attach the sample nc file, I 
may be able to test it.


-- 
Muhammad Rahiz
Researcher & DPhil Candidate (Climate Systems & Policy)
School of Geography & the Environment
University of Oxford

On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, sudev das M P wrote:

> Hai All,
> 
> I have a NetCDF data file "evapr_oaflux_1958.nc".
> 
> I got it from the following link:
> http://dss.ucar.edu/dsszone/ds260.1/index.html?g=2#MONTHLY-TURBULENCE
> 
> While I  am trying to open this file in GrADS I am getting following message.
> 
> *****************************************************************
> ga-> sdfopen evapr_oaflux_1958.nc
> Scanning self-describing file:  evapr_oaflux_1958.nc
> gadsdf: SDF file has no discernable X coordinate.
> *****************************************************************
> Since it is showing "SDF file has no discernable X coordinate", I made a descriptor file
> 
> and tried to open it using "xdfopen" command.
> 
> *****************************************************
> DSET ^evapr_oaflux_1958.nc
> XDEF 360 linear 0.5 1.0
> ******************************************************
> 
> This time too I got an error message.
> 
> ************************************************************
> ga-> xdfopen evapr_oaflux_1958.ctl
> Scanning Descriptor File:  evapr_oaflux_1958.ctl
> gadxdf error: Missing or invalid dimension size.
>   --> The invalid description file record is:
>   --> xdef 360 linear 0.5 1.0
>   The data file was not opened.
> *************************************************************
> 
> Please tell me how to fix this problem. Hope someone will
> 
> give me a reply.
> 
> Thanking You,
> Sudev.
> 
> 
> 
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