Jennifer,<div><br></div><div>I don't know why I had overlooked the -4d option, since it's clearly stated in the 'set sdfwrite' documentation. Thanks for the response...and it did the trick!</div><div><br></div>
<div>Stephen<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Jennifer Adams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Use the -4d option to 'set sdfwrite' -- that will force your output file to have 4 coordinate variables (lon,lat,lev,time), and it will write out your variable as a 4D variable with the correct fixed time dimension metadata. <div>
--Jennifer</div><div><br><div><br><div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div>On Jun 24, 2011, at 11:33 AM, Stephen McMillan wrote:</div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div></div><div class="h5">When using SDFWRITE, I have been unable to output a single-timestep NC file with the desired time coordinate. They always show "00Z01JAN0001" for time when I do a 'q ctlinfo' or 'q dim'. However, If I output a multi-timestep file, the correct times are shown. I am not having a problem with the displayed data, and I do know that I can analyze using t=1 or time=00Z01JAN0001, so it's not a show-stopper.<div>
<br></div><div>I have tried various combinations of 'set sdfattr time String.....' to set attribute metadata, but to no avail. Other 'set sdfattr...' commands are working.</div><div><br></div><div>I am currently using opengrads version 2.0.a7.oga.3. The documentation says 'set sdfattr' command is available in v2.0.a3 or higher, but perhaps some won't work with my version?</div>
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