[gradsusr] failing to open a netcdf file format (365 day calendars are no longer supported by sdfopen).

[Alan Robock]

Dear Jose,

Use xdfopen file.ddf

and the file.ddf should be:

dset ^filename.nc
options 365_day_calendar
tdef time 365 linear 00z1jan1900 1dy

for example.


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On Wed, November 16, 2011 1:39 pm, Jose Augusto Paixão Veiga wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Trying to open a netcdf file format with the command sdfopen I get the
> followed error message bellow:
>
>
> Scanning self-describing file:  ta_A1_1971_1990.nc
> SDF Error: 365 day calendars are no longer supported by sdfopen.
> To open this file with GrADS, use a descriptor file with
> a complete TDEF entry and OPTIONS 365_day_calendar.
>
>
>
> My question is: What GrAds version should I use to avoid this message and
> get my netcdf file correctly opened?
>
> Unfortunately, I don't know what my actual GrAds version is. So, is there
> a manner to get it?
>
>  Thanks in advance
>
> José Augusto P. Veiga,
>
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