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Dear &nbsp;Serge<div style="text-indent: 0px !important; "><br style="text-indent: 0px !important; "></div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">Thank you for your suggestion.</div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">I am sorry that I had made mistyping of Version6.0 instead of Version5.0&gt;</div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">I tried to do pathfinder that you directed me, but the result is the same.</div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">The error comes like&nbsp;</div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; "><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">"gadsdf: SDF file has no discernable X coordinate."</div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; "><br style="text-indent: 0px !important; "></div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">I will study the compliant of COARD that Arlindo suggested.</div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; "><br style="text-indent: 0px !important; "></div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">Best Regards,</div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; "><br style="text-indent: 0px !important; "></div><div style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">Takaya Namba&nbsp;</div></div><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:26:42 -0700<br>From: rafanoharana@gmail.com<br>To: gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>Subject: Re: [gradsusr] sdfopen with opendap file<br><br>Hi there,<br><br>I think you better check which data you would like to use. I checked your URL "<span style="font-size:12pt"></span><a href="http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/opendap/pathfinder/Version6.0/Monthly/1985/198501.s04m1pfv50-bsst-16b.hdf" target="_blank">http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/opendap/pathfinder/Version6.0/Monthly/1985/198501.s04m1pfv50-bsst-16b.hdf"</a> but in reality, there is no Version6.0 under the path pathfinder. I think that's why you obtain this server error.<br>
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      </tbody></table><br><br>Regards,<br><br>Serge<br><br><br><div class="ecxgmail_quote">2011/6/17 Arlindo da Silva <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:dasilva@alum.mit.edu">dasilva@alum.mit.edu</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br><br><div class="ecxgmail_quote">2011/6/17 Namba Takaya <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:takayanamba@hotmail.com">takayanamba@hotmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">





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<span style="font-size:12pt">Dear Sir</span><div><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt">I use radsá2.0.a9 under mac os X 10.6.3.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt">á</span></div>

<div><span style="font-size:12pt">I tried to open the file of noaa opendap server as follows,</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></div><div><div><span style="font-size:12pt">sdfopen <a href="http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/opendap/pathfinder/Version6.0/Monthly/1985/198501.s04m1pfv50-bsst-16b.hdf" target="_blank">http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/opendap/pathfinder/Version6.0/Monthly/1985/198501.s04m1pfv50-bsst-16b.hdf</a></span></div>

<div><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt">However, I can not succeed to open it and the error comes like</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></div><div><div>

<span style="font-size:12pt">Error: nc_open failed to open file <a href="http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/opendap/pathfinder/Version6.0/Monthly/1985/198501.s04m1pfv50-bsst-16b.hdf" target="_blank">http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/opendap/pathfinder/Version6.0/Monthly/1985/198501.s04m1pfv50-bsst-16b.hdf</a></span></div>

<div><span style="font-size:12pt">NetCDF: DAP server error</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-size:16px">Could you tell me how to solve this problem?</span></font></div>

<div><font size="4"><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-size:16px">Best Regards,</span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-size:16px">Takaya Namba<u></u></span></font></div>

<div><font size="4"><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt">The result of dncdump is</span></div><div>

<span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></div><div><div><span style="font-size:12pt">bash-3.2# dncdump -h "<a href="http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/opendap/pathfinder/Version5.0/Monthly/1985/198501.s04m1pfv50-bsst-16b.hdf" target="_blank">http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/opendap/pathfinder/Version5.0/Monthly/1985/198501.s04m1pfv50-bsst-16b.hdf</a>" |less</span></div>

<div><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt">netcdf 198501.s04m1pfv50-bsst-16b { // format variant: 64bitá</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt">dimensions:</span></div><div>

<span style="font-size:12pt">áá á á álat!
  = 4096 ;</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt">áá á á álon = 8192 ;</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt">variables:</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt">áá á á áshort bsst(lat, lon) ;</span></div>

<div><span style="font-size:12pt">áá á á á á á á ábsst:dsp_PixelType = 1b ;</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt">áá á á á á á á ábsst:dsp_PixelSize = 2b ;</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt">áá á á á á á á ábsst:dsp_Flag = 0s ;</span></div>

<div><span style="font-size:12pt">áá á á á á á á ábsst:dsp_nBits = 16s ;</span><u></u><div><span style="font-size:12pt">&amp;nb

sp;á á á á á á á ábsst:dsp_LineSize = 0 ;</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt">áá á á á á á á ábsst:dsp_cal_name = "Temperature" ;</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt">áá á á á á á á ábsst:units = "Temp" ;</span></div>

<div><span style="font-size:12pt">áá á á á á á á ábsst:dsp_cal_eqnNumber = 2s ;</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt">áá á á á á á á ábsst:dsp_cal_CoeffsLength = 8s ;</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt">áá á á á á á á ábsst:dsp_cal_coeffs = 0.075f, -3.f ;</span></div>

<div><span style="font-size:12pt">!
 áá á á á á á á ábsst:scale_factor = 0.075f ;</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt">áá á á á á á á ábsst:add_off = -3.f ;</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>

</blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is not COARDS compliant: coordinate variables are missing.áTry creating a DDF or ctl for it.áRead this section of the User's Guide:</div><div><br></div><div>áá á <a href="http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/SDFdescriptorfile.html" target="_blank">http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/SDFdescriptorfile.html</a></div>

<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>áá á Arlindo</div><div><br></div><div>á</div><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>

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