[gradsusr] no discernable X coordinate

[Andrew Friedman]

Hi Anca,

Here’s an example of a descriptor I used to open an annual sst file. In this case, I only specified TDEF since the X and Y dimensions were ok in the original. You can follow the same procedure for any dimension.

Andrew

DSET ^sst_output.nc
TITLE Historical SST
TDEF time 151 LINEAR 01Apr1853 1yr
VARS 1
sst=>sst
ENDVARS

On Dec 4, 2014, at 4:46 PM, anca bratu <anca.bratu at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Thank you for your answer.
> Can you please, give me an example of such a descriptor for any file?
> 
> Thank you!
> --------------------------------------------
> On Wed, 12/3/14, Andrew Friedman <andfried at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Subject: Re: [gradsusr] no discernable X coordinate
> To: "GrADS Users Forum" <gradsusr at gradsusr.org>
> Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2014, 4:54 PM
> 
> Hi Anca,
> 
> Here are instructions for
> constructing a descriptor file: http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/aboutgriddeddata.html#descriptor
> The entry for xdfopen also has some examples:
> http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradcomdxdfopen.html
> 
> Andrew
> 
> On
> Dec 2, 2014, at 5:28 PM, anca bratu <anca.bratu at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> My name is Anca
> Bratu and I have a problem: 
>> 
> sdfopen_nameofthefile
>> 
> scanning_self-describing_file: nameofthefile
>> gadsdf: SDF file has no discernable X
> coordinate.
>>   To open this file with
> GrADS, use a descriptor file with an XDEF entry. 
>>   Documentation is at http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/SDFdescriptorfile.html
>> 
>> Please, if you have
> encountered this kind of problem, tell me exactly the steps
> I must follow.
>> 
>> 
> Thank you!
>> 
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