[gradsusr] Grads cannot open MERRA HDF file

[Jennifer Adams]

Your build is not enabled to handle hdf4 files, only hdf5. Please have a look at http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/supplibs.html for help on building HDF4.2r3. 
--Jennifer

On Jul 5, 2012, at 12:51 PM, You, Yalei wrote:

> Thank you very much.
> 
> Here is the information after I use "q config", also I posted the information after I typed grads under Ubuntu
> ***********************************************
> Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) Version 2.0.a9
> Copyright (c) 1988-2010 by Brian Doty and the
> Institute for Global Environment and Society (IGES)
> GrADS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
> See file COPYRIGHT for more information
> 
> Config: v2.0.a9 little-endian readline printim grib2 netcdf hdf5 shapefile
> Issue 'q config' command for more detailed configuration information
> Landscape mode? ('n' for portrait):  
> GX Package Initialization: Size = 11 8.5 
> 
> ga-> q config
> Config: v2.0.a9 little-endian readline printim grib2 netcdf hdf5 shapefile
> Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) Version 2.0.a9
> Copyright (c) 1988-2010 by Brian Doty and the
> Institute for Global Environment and Society (IGES) 
> This program is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY 
> See file COPYRIGHT for more information. 
> 
> Built Tue May 31 08:58:09 UTC 2011 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
> 
> This version of GrADS has been configured with the following options:
>   o Built on a LITTLE ENDIAN machine
>   o Athena Widget GUI DISABLED
>   o Command line editing ENABLED 
>       http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html 
>   o printim command for image output ENABLED 
>       http://www.zlib.net 
>       http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html 
>       http://www.libgd.org/Main_Page 
>   o GRIB2 interface ENABLED 
>       http://www.ijg.org 
>       http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper 
>       http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/codes/GRIB2 
>       g2clib-1.2.2  
>   o NetCDF interface ENABLED 
>       http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf  
>       netcdf 4.1.1 of Sep 11 2011 12:47:31 $  
>   o OPeNDAP gridded data interface DISABLED
>   o OPeNDAP station data interface DISABLED
>   o HDF5 interface ENABLED 
>       http://hdfgroup.org 
>       HDF5 1.8.4 
>   o GeoTIFF and KML/TIFF output DISABLED
>   o KML contour output ENABLED
>   o Shapefile interface ENABLED
>       http://shapelib.maptools.org 
> 
> For additional information please consult http://iges.org/grads
> 
> 
> From: gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org [gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org] on behalf of Jennifer Adams [jma at cola.iges.org]
> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 12:40 PM
> To: GrADS Users Forum
> Subject: Re: [gradsusr] Grads cannot open MERRA HDF file
> 
> I downloaded the file and was able to open it with sdfopen without any problems. Based on these clues:
> 
>> Open Error:  Data file type invalid
>>  --> The invalid description file record is:
>>  --> DTYPE hdfsds
> 
>> Attempt to use feature that was not turned on when netCDF was built.
> 
> I believe the problem lies in your particular GrADS build, especially the hdf library. Can you send the output from 'q config'? 
> --Jennifer
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Jennifer M. Adams
> IGES/COLA
> 4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302
> Calverton, MD 20705
> jma at cola.iges.org
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