[gradsusr] How to use template option for .nc file (there is no .ctl, file)

[Hoop]

Mano,

I'm confused.  Why does the path to your first file have a space inside
of it?  You have:

/home/data/pre/1995/01/ pre_1995_01_01.nc

Shouldn't it be:

/home/data/pre/1995/01/pre_1995_01_01.nc

If that doesn't solve it, please send the output from running
"ncdump -ht " on the first file.  If you are not familiar with
ncdump, it is part of the standard NetCDF suite from Unidata:

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/

Thanks,
-Hoop

On 04/04/16 20:20, lpasmanoranjan wrote:
> Dear Hoop,
> Thank you very much for your reply. I tried it for 2 files after saving
> sdfopent.gs in my scripts directory. But getting
> the following error.
>
>
> My data directory: /home/data/pre/1995/01/
> Number of Times: 2 (pre_1995_01_01.nc and
> pre_1995_01_02.nc)
> (Kindly Note: each file has only one time data, so I changed the deltahr
> = 1 in the sdfopent.gs script at line 150)
>
> Now I used the following command and got the subquent messages.
>
> ga-> sdfopent /home/data/pre/1995/01/ pre_1995_01_01.nc
> pre_1995_01_%h2.nc 2
> Defaulting optional DDF arg to out.ddf
> yr1=1995.
> netCDFfile= /home/data/pre/1995/01/ pre_1995_01_01.nc
> Template= pre_1995_01_%h2.nc
> NumTimes= 2
> Time1= 00Z01JAN1995
> Tstep= 1hr
> DDF= out.ddf
> gadsdf: Time dimension time is not an SDF dimension.
> SDF Descriptor file out.ddf was not successfully opened & parsed.
> Scanning Descriptor File:  out.ddf
> gadsdf: Time dimension time is not an SDF dimension.
> SDF Descriptor file out.ddf was not successfully opened & parsed.
>
> SET Error:  No files open yet
> SET Error:  No files open yet
>
> I must be doing some mistake, can anybody please help me to sort this
> problem. Thank you so much.
>
> On 5 April 2016 at 02:23, Hoop <hoop at colorado.edu> wrote:
>
>     Mano,
>
>     The standard script library:
>
>     http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gadoc/library.html
>
>     includes the script sdfopent.gs.  It takes two additional
>     arguments beyond the one for sdfopen.  The second argument
>     is a template, like "pre_%y4_%m2_%d2.nc", and the
>     third is
>     a count of time steps in the entire series.  The first argument
>     would be the first path in the time series.  See:
>
>     ftp://cola.gmu.edu/grads/scripts/sdfopent.gs
>
>     -Hoop
>
>     On 04/04/16 10:00, gradsusr-request at gradsusr.org> wrote:
>      > Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 18:27:49 +0900
>      > From: lpasmanoranjan <lpasmanoranjan at gmail.com>
>      > Subject: [gradsusr] How to use template option for .nc file (there is
>      >       no      .ctl file)
>      > To: GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr at gradsusr.org>
>      >
>      > Dear Users,
>      > I am having a problem in viewing the following dataset as
>     template option.
>      > I have hourly dataset in .nc as following:
>      >
>      > 1995/01/pre_1995_01_01.nc
>      > 1995/01/pre_1995_01_02.nc
>      > 1995/01/pre_1995_01_03.nc
>      > 1995/01/pre_1995_01_04.nc
>      > 1995/01/pre_1995_01_05.nc
>      > 1995/01/pre_1995_01_06.nc
>      > and so on for 10 years
>      >
>      > *All individual datasets can be viewed in grads with sdfopen command*
>      >
>      > Can anybody please help me how to use template option.
>      >
>      > Thank you for any kind of help or suggestion in this regard.
>      >
>      > Kind Regards
>      > Mano
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> Kind Regards,
> Mano