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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=495362013-09042010>Hi
all,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=495362013-09042010></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=495362013-09042010>I'm a pretty new
user of GrADS, I just installed the v2.0a7 version and I have some difficulties
in opening different netcdf files as one.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=495362013-09042010>My files are data
for the end of the 20th century (e.g. 1950-2008), and since the files are too
big they are split into e.g. 4 different files of 14 to 15 years. I wrote the
following control file to open the netcdf files at once:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=495362013-09042010><SPAN lang=EN>
<P><FONT face=Calibri size=2>dset ^tg_0.25deg_reg_%ch_v2.0.nc</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Calibri size=2>chsub 1 5479 1950-1964</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Calibri size=2>chsub 5480 10957 1965-1979</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Calibri size=2>chsub 10958 16436 1980-1994</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Calibri size=2>chsub 16437 21550 1995-2008 </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Calibri size=2>tdef 21550 linear 0Z01jan1950 1dy</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Calibri size=2>dtype netcdf</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Calibri size=2>title tg_0.25deg_reg</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Calibri size=2>undef -999.999</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Calibri size=2>options template</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Calibri size=2>options yrev</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Calibri size=2>xdef 464 linear -40.375 0.25 </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Calibri size=2>ydef 201 linear 25.375 0.25 </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Calibri size=2>zdef 1 linear 1 1</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Calibri size=2>vars 1</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Calibri size=2>tg=>tas 0 99 Mean daily temperature
(Celsius)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Calibri size=2>endvars</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Calibri size=2></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2><SPAN class=495362013-09042010>GrADS makes no problem opening
the control file, but I can't display my variable at all, there's an error
message: </SPAN></FONT></P><FONT size=2><SPAN class=495362013-09042010>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=892292508-07042010><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2>Scanning description file: E:/tg_0.25deg_reg1.ctl</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=892292508-07042010><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2>Data file E:/tg_0.25deg_reg_%ch_v2.0.nc is open as file
1</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=892292508-07042010><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2>LON set to -40.375 75.375</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=892292508-07042010><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2>LAT set to 25.375 75.375</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=892292508-07042010><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2>LEV set to 1 1</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=892292508-07042010><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2>Time values set: 1950:1:1:0 1950:1:1:0</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=892292508-07042010><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2>E set to 1 1</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=892292508-07042010><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=892292508-07042010><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2>ga-> d tas</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=892292508-07042010><FONT color=#ff0000
size=2>NetCDF Error (gancrow, nc_get_vara_double): NetCDF: Index exceeds
dimension bound</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=892292508-07042010><FONT color=#ff0000
size=2>Data Request Error: Error for variable 'tas'</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=892292508-07042010> <FONT
color=#ff0000 size=2>Error ocurred at column 1</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=892292508-07042010><FONT color=#ff0000
size=2>DISPLAY error: Invalid expression</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=892292508-07042010> <FONT
color=#ff0000 size=2>Expression = tas</FONT></SPAN></DIV></SPAN></FONT>
<P><FONT size=2><SPAN class=495362013-09042010>If anyone can help me about
that... That would be great!</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2><SPAN class=495362013-09042010></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2><SPAN class=495362013-09042010>Thanks,</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2><SPAN class=495362013-09042010>Marie</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2><SPAN class=495362013-09042010>MSc Student Wageningen
University</SPAN></FONT></P></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>