<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Ah. ncdump output would definitely help. But first try this: your descriptor needs 'dtype netcdf' and also a different variable declaration (with t,z,y,x instead of "0") Take a look at <a href="http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/SDFdescriptorfile.html">http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/SDFdescriptorfile.html</a> first. <div>Jennifer<br><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><br></span></font></div><div><div><div>On Dec 13, 2008, at 2:54 AM, Mald MM5 wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Thanks for the reply,<br><br>Well the data file is huge...Its a netCDF file. So if I send the ncdump of the file, would that help?<br><br>Thanks<br>Mald<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Jennifer Adams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="">Can you provide a small data sample? (I can't fix a problem I can't reproduce.) Also, if the variables u10m and v10m do not vary in Z, the should have a "0" in the 'levs' field in the variable declaration -- you have a "1" there instead. <div> Jennifer<br><div><br></div><div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><div><div>On Dec 10, 2008, at 6:46 AM, Mald MM5 wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">Hi there,<br><br>I have this output file from arwpost of WRF3.0 using lambert projection. It seems to open is version 1.8 but when I treid to open in version 2, it gives me undefined grid. I wonder why its not working in the latest version. The problem I did not want to work with version 1.8 is cause of its precision problem in pin pointing specific grid points. <br> <br>Any suggestions?....<br><br>Here is the ctl file...Thanks a lot<br><br>dset ^modelOut.dat<br>undef 1.e30<br>title OUTPUT FROM WRF V3.0 MODEL<br>pdef 198 198 lcc -36.940 174.780 99.500 99.500 -36.94000 -36.94000 174.78000 3000.000 3000.000<br> xdef 529 linear 171.20088 0.01351351<br>ydef 416 linear -39.73195 0.01351351<br>zdef 37 levels <br>1010.00000<br>1000.00000<br> 990.00000<br> 980.00000<br> 970.00000<br> 960.00000<br> 950.00000<br> 940.00000<br> 930.00000<br> 920.00000<br> 910.00000<br> 900.00000<br> 890.00000<br> 880.00000<br> 870.00000<br> 860.00000<br> 850.00000<br> 840.00000<br> 830.00000<br> 820.00000<br> 810.00000<br> 800.00000<br> 770.00000<br> 750.00000<br> 700.00000<br> 650.00000<br> 600.00000<br> 550.00000<br> 500.00000<br> 450.00000<br> 400.00000<br> 350.00000<br> 300.00000<br> 250.00000<br> 200.00000<br> 150.00000<br> 100.00000<br>tdef 7 linear 12Z17MAR2006 30MN <br> VARS 6<br>height 37 0 Model height (KM)<br>theta 37 0 Potential Temperature (K)<br>umet 37 0 Rotated wind component (m s-1)<br>vmet 37 0 Rotated wind component (m s-1)<br>u10m 1 0 Rotated wind component (m s-1)<br> v10m 1 0 Rotated wind component (m s-1)<br>ENDVARS<br></blockquote></div><br></div></div><font color="#888888"><div> <span style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style=""> <span style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div> --</div><div>Jennifer M. Adams</div><div>IGES/COLA</div><div>4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302</div><div>Calverton, MD 20705</div><div><a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org" target="_blank">jma@cola.iges.org</a></div><div><br> </div><br></span></span></div></span> </div><br></font></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>--</div><div>Jennifer M. 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