<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi All,<div><br></div><div>I am trying to write a control file to open multiple CMIP5 6hr .nc files.</div><div><br></div><div>I am running grads-2.0.a8 on Linux version 2.6.27.45-server-1mnb.</div><div><br></div><div>My files are 6h temperature in 3 month bundles and look like </div><div>ta_6hrLev_HadGEM2-ES_rcp45_r1i1p1_200512010600-200603010000.nc</div><div>ta_6hrLev_HadGEM2-ES_rcp45_r1i1p1_200603010600-200606010000.nc</div><div>ta_6hrLev_HadGEM2-ES_rcp45_r1i1p1_200606010600-200609010000.nc</div><div>...</div><div><br></div><div>They open fine individually with sdfopen. </div><div>All the examples I've seen on the user list and elsewhere more or less have names that are simple sequential (e.g., pr.1998.nc, pr.1999.nc, etc. or month, day, year, that kind of thing).</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure of the nomenclature with a time interval in the name like the above (xxx_%y4%m2%d2%t4-%y4%m2%d2%t4.nc)</div><div><br></div><div>I tried %ch</div><div><div>DSET ^ta_6hrLev_HadGEM2-ES_rcp45_r1i1p1_%ch.nc</div><div>CHSUB 1 360 200512010600-200603010000</div><div>CHSUB 361 720 200603010600-200606010000</div><div>OPTIONS template</div><div>DTYPE netcdf</div><div>TDEF time 720 linear 6Z1dec2005 6hr</div></div><div> with the error message:</div><div><div>ga-> open test.ctl</div><div>Scanning description file: test.ctl</div><div>Open Error: Missing or invalid dimension size.</div><div> --> The invalid description file record is: </div><div> --> TDEF time 720 linear 6Z1dec2005 6hr</div><div> The data file was not opened.</div></div><div><br></div><div>I tried</div><div><div>DSET ^ta_6hrLev_HadGEM2-ES_rcp45_r1i1p1_200512010600-200603010000.nc ta_6hrLev_HadGEM2-ES_rcp45_r1i1p1_%y4%m2%d2%t4-%y4%m2%d2%t4.nc</div><div>OPTIONS template</div><div>TDEF time 1800 linear 6Z1dec2005 6hr</div><div>[opens just the first file]</div><div><br></div><div>and I tried</div><div><div>DSET ^ta_6hrLev_HadGEM2-ES_rcp45_r1i1p1_%y4%m2%d2%t4-%y4%m2%d2%t4.nc</div><div>OPTIONS template</div><div>TDEF time 1800 linear 6Z1dec2005 6hr</div></div><div>[gives error message: read_metadata: gaopfn failed (rc=-88888)</div><div>gadsdf: Couldn't ingest SDF metadata.</div><div>SDF Descriptor file test2.ctl was not successfully opened & parsed.]</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not the most adept grads/computer/scripting person. Please help.</div><div><br></div><div>Joyce</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>**************************</div><div><i>Joyce Meyerson</i></div><div><i>UCLA</i></div><div><i>Dept. of Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences</i></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><i>7235 Math Science Bld.</i></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><i>Los Angeles, CA 90095-1565</i></span></font></div><div><i><a href="mailto:hobo@atmos.ucla.edu">hobo@atmos.ucla.edu</a></i></div></div></span></div></div> </div><br></body></html>