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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Jim<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>You need to put a space before the _FillValue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Your file pattern is looking for a terra2005TMM.nc file. You are
opening terra2005MM.nc files. Try removing the %t1 from the file pattern.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>John Huddleston, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org [mailto:gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>jimbo32886@gmail.com<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 02, 2010 6:21 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> GrADS Users Forum<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [gradsusr] NetCDF Data Descriptor File Problem<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hello Everyone,<br>
I am having a problem with my data descriptor file. I am
running grads version 1.9b4. I currently have 12 netcdf monthly files
which are named <a href="http://terra200501.nc">terra200501.nc</a> through <a
href="http://terra200512.nc">terra200512.nc</a>. I am attempting to
create a proper data descriptor file so I can perform some analysis. This
is my first time working with creating a descriptor file for multiple .nc
files. The files have no discernible time, thus I am trying to write a
descriptor file so it does have a set time. This is what my control file
looks like:<br>
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DSET ^terra2005%t1%<a href="http://m2.nc">m2.nc</a><br>
DTYPE netcdf<br>
OPTIONS template<br>
UNDEF -9.999e3_FillValue<br>
TITLE Test<br>
XDEF 360 linear -179.5 1.0<br>
YDEF 180 linear -89.5 1.0<br>
ZDEF 1 Levels 0<br>
TDEF 12 linear jan2005 1mo<br>
VARS 1<br>
Optical_Depth_Land_And_Ocean_Mean_Mean=>aod 0 y,x aerosol optical depth<br>
ENDVARS<br>
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This is what I get when I run ncdump:<br>
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ncdump -c <a href="http://terra200501.nc">terra200501.nc</a><span
style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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