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Here is the information after I use "q config", also I posted the information after I typed grads under Ubuntu<br>
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Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) Version 2.0.a9<br>
Copyright (c) 1988-2010 by Brian Doty and the<br>
Institute for Global Environment and Society (IGES)<br>
GrADS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY<br>
See file COPYRIGHT for more information<br>
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Config: v2.0.a9 little-endian readline printim grib2 netcdf hdf5 shapefile<br>
Issue 'q config' command for more detailed configuration information<br>
Landscape mode? ('n' for portrait): <br>
GX Package Initialization: Size = 11 8.5 <br>
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ga-> q config<br>
Config: v2.0.a9 little-endian readline printim grib2 netcdf hdf5 shapefile<br>
Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) Version 2.0.a9<br>
Copyright (c) 1988-2010 by Brian Doty and the<br>
Institute for Global Environment and Society (IGES) <br>
This program is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY <br>
See file COPYRIGHT for more information. <br>
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Built Tue May 31 08:58:09 UTC 2011 for i686-pc-linux-gnu<br>
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This version of GrADS has been configured with the following options:<br>
o Built on a LITTLE ENDIAN machine<br>
o Athena Widget GUI DISABLED<br>
o Command line editing ENABLED <br>
http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html <br>
o printim command for image output ENABLED <br>
http://www.zlib.net <br>
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html <br>
http://www.libgd.org/Main_Page <br>
o GRIB2 interface ENABLED <br>
http://www.ijg.org <br>
http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper <br>
http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/codes/GRIB2 <br>
g2clib-1.2.2 <br>
o NetCDF interface ENABLED <br>
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf <br>
netcdf 4.1.1 of Sep 11 2011 12:47:31 $ <br>
o OPeNDAP gridded data interface DISABLED<br>
o OPeNDAP station data interface DISABLED<br>
o HDF5 interface ENABLED <br>
http://hdfgroup.org <br>
HDF5 1.8.4 <br>
o GeoTIFF and KML/TIFF output DISABLED<br>
o KML contour output ENABLED<br>
o Shapefile interface ENABLED<br>
http://shapelib.maptools.org <br>
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For additional information please consult http://iges.org/grads<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF396255"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><b>From:</b> gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org [gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org] on behalf of Jennifer Adams [jma@cola.iges.org]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 05, 2012 12:40 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> GrADS Users Forum<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [gradsusr] Grads cannot open MERRA HDF file<br>
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<div>I downloaded the file and was able to open it with sdfopen without any problems. Based on these clues:</div>
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<div>Open Error: Data file type invalid<br>
--> The invalid description file record is:<br>
--> DTYPE hdfsds<br>
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Attempt to use feature that was not turned on when netCDF was built.<br>
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<div>I believe the problem lies in your particular GrADS build, especially the hdf library. Can you send the output from 'q config'? </div>
<div>--Jennifer</div>
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<div>Jennifer M. Adams</div>
<div>IGES/COLA</div>
<div>4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302</div>
<div>Calverton, MD 20705</div>
<div><a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org" target="_blank">jma@cola.iges.org</a></div>
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