<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">From the doc page <a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/SDFdescriptorfile.html">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/SDFdescriptorfile.html</a>:</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> The 'sdfopen' and 'xdfopen' interfaces do not support the HDF5 format. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">The 'open' interface is the only way to read HDF5 files.</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">The biggest difference between descriptor files for HDF5 and NetCDF are in the variable declaration -- the varnames have to be aliased. From the doc page <a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/descriptorfile.html">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/descriptorfile.html</a>:</span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> For dtype
hdf5_grid, the SDF_varname may be particularly long since it must
contain the names of all the nested groups (separated by "/") to which
the data set belongs. For example: /HDFEOS/GRIDS/EarthSurfaceReflectanceClimatology/Data~Fields/MonthlySurfaceReflectance=>msr</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">--Jennifer</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font><div><div>On Oct 1, 2009, at 8:23 AM, hiren dave wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Friends<br> I want to excess HDF5 (.h5) file in GrADS. For that i am using following scripts and it display some error. Is there any way by which i can excess the HDF5 files in GrADS.<br>The sample file is attached herewith. <br>The same is the case whhen using gradshdf utility.<br><br>Grads script.<br> xdfopen e:/K1VHR_23SEP2008_2330_L02_SST.h5 <br>Scanning Descriptor File: e:/K1VHR_23SEP2008_2330_L02_SST.h5<br>XDFOpen Error: Unknown keyword in description file<br> --> The invalid description file record is: <br> --> eter_12<br> The data file was not opened. <br><br></td></tr></tbody></table><br> <!--7--><hr size="1"> Yahoo! India has a new look. <a href="http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_metro_2/*http://in.yahoo.com/trynew" target="_blank"> Take a sneak peek</a>.<span><K1VHR_23SEP2008_2330_L02_SST.h5></span></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. 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">jma@cola.iges.org</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></div></span> </div><br></div></div></body></html>