<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div></div><div>How about just 'open' the descriptor file?<br> </div><hr><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/GrADS-Tutorial/195072930513663">GrADS Tutorial on Facebook</a><div><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.wishingwork.com/grads/">http://www.wishingwork.com/grads/</a></span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> saiguran loisulie <saiguranloi@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> GrADS Users <gradsusr@gradsusr.org><br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, March 31, 2011 7:55:23 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [gradsusr] gadxdf error: Missing or invalid dimension size.<br></font><br>
<meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="off"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">Hi<br><br>I am trying to open my netcdf data file by using a descriptor file attached below and I got the error shown below:<br>______________________________________________________________________<br>xdfopen air.mon.mean.ctl <br>Scanning Descriptor File: air.mon.mean.ctl<br>gadxdf error: Missing or invalid dimension size.<br> --> The invalid description file record is: <br> --> xdef 41 linear -30 2.5<br> The data file was not opened. <br>___________________________________________________________________<br><br><br>Descriptor file:<br>___________________________________________________________________<br>dset <a target="_blank" href="http://air.mon.mean.nc">air.mon.mean.nc</a><br>undef 32766s<br>dtype netcdf<br>xdef 41 linear -30 2.5<br>ydef 41 linear -50 2.5<br>zdef
10 linear 1000 1<br>tdef 264 linear 00z01JAN1989 1mn<br>vars 1<br>air=>air 10 t,z,y,x Monthly Mean of
Air temperature<br>endvars<br>_________________________________________________________________<br><br><br>Please help me solve this problem.<br><br><br>Saiguran Loisulie<br>
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