<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">yes, I used xdfopen.. Here is the information you requested: Any advice would be much appreciated,<div><br></div><div>Here is the complete grads session that occurred:</div><div><br></div><div><div> -> grads</div><div><br></div><div>Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) Version 2.0.a9</div><div>Copyright (c) 1988-2010 by Brian Doty and the</div><div>Institute for Global Environment and Society (IGES)</div><div>GrADS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY</div><div>See file COPYRIGHT for more information</div><div><br></div><div>Config: v2.0.a9 little-endian readline printim grib2 netcdf hdf4-sds hdf5 opendap-grids geotiff shapefile</div><div>Issue 'q config' command for more detailed configuration information</div><div>Landscape mode? ('n' for portrait): </div><div>GX Package Initialization: Size = 11 8.5 </div><div><br></div><div>ga-> xdfopen test.ctl</div><div>Scanning Descriptor File: test.ctl</div><div>gadxdf error: Missing or invalid dimension size.</div><div> --> The invalid description file record is: </div><div> --> xdef lon 144<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>linear 0.0 2.5</div><div> The data file was not opened. </div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Here is my test.ctl file:</div><div><br></div><div><div>DSET ^tiltedheat_daily_1980_1997_FLNT_anom.nc</div><div>TITLE This is only a test</div><div>options template 365_day_calendar</div><div>UNDEF -999</div><div>XDEF lon 144<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>LINEAR 0.0 2.5</div><div>YDEF lat 96 LINEAR -90. 1.9 </div><div>TDEF 6206 LINEAR 00Z1jan1980 1dy</div><div>VARS 1</div><div>OLR=>FLNT_anom 0 x,y OLR</div><div>ENDVARS</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 2, 2012, at 4:42 AM, Jennifer Adams <<a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Did you use xdfopen? Please send the complete text of your GrADS session, including the version number. You will need the 'options 365_day_calendar' entry to your descriptor. --Jennifer<div><br><div><br><div><div>On Nov 1, 2012, at 9:34 PM, Cara-Lyn Lappen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Removing lon and lat did not work<div><br></div><div>I get the same error message.</div><div><br></div><div>The other suggestion to add the line : "options template 365_day_calendar" also did not work.</div><div><br></div><div>any other ideas? Im open…</div><div><br></div><div>Cara-Lyn</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 1, 2012, at 7:25 PM, Rupak Rajbhandari <<a href="mailto:rupak.rajbhandari@gmail.com">rupak.rajbhandari@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">remove 'lon' & 'lat' from xdef and ydef line in a descriptor file.<div><br></div><div>-rupak</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Sagar Parajuli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:psagar@utexas.edu" target="_blank">psagar@utexas.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Cara-lyn<br>
In your script please include the following and use xdfopen to open the<br>
file, it should work:<br>
options template 365_day_calendar<br>
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Sagar Prasad Parajuli<br>
Graduate Student/Research Assistant<br>
University of Texas at Austin<br>
Jackson School of Geosciences<br>
1 University Station C1100, JGB 5.322<br>
Austin, TX 78712<br>
Contact: <a href="mailto:psagar@utexas.edu">psagar@utexas.edu</a><br>
Cell: <a href="tel:512%20965%204093" value="+15129654093">512 965 4093</a><br>
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Subject: [gradsusr] opening CAM netcdf files with grads<br>
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hi all,<br>
<br>
I am fairly new to GraDs. I am trying to use GraDs to open a netcdf file<br>
created by the NCAR CAM model. I have tried everything and I can't get it to<br>
work.<br>
sdfopen doesn't work because it has a 365 day calendar. So, I tried xdfopen<br>
with a model descriptor file that looks like this (test.ctl)<br>
<br>
DSET ^tiltedheat_daily_1980_1997_FLNT_anom.nc<br>
TITLE This is only a test<br>
UNDEF -999<br>
XDEF lon 144 LINEAR 0.0 2.5<br>
YDEF lat 96 LINEAR -90. 1.9<br>
TDEF 6206 LINEAR 00Z1jan1980 1dy<br>
VARS 1<br>
OLR=>FLNT_anom 0 x,y OLR<br>
ENDVARS<br>
<br>
-----------------------------------------------------------<br>
<br>
The ncdump -h output for this file looks like this:<br>
<br>
netcdf tiltedheat_daily_1980_1997_FLNT_anom {<br>
dimensions:<br>
time = UNLIMITED ; // (6206 currently)<br>
lat = 38 ;<br>
lon = 144 ;<br>
variables:<br>
double time(time) ;<br>
time:long_name = "time" ;<br>
time:units = "days since 1980-01-01 00:00:00" ;<br>
time:calendar = "noleap" ;<br>
time:bounds = "time_bnds" ;<br>
double lat(lat) ;<br>
lat:long_name = "latitude" ;<br>
lat:units = "degrees_north" ;<br>
double lon(lon) ;<br>
lon:long_name = "longitude" ;<br>
lon:units = "degrees_east" ;<br>
float FLNT_anom(time, lat, lon) ;<br>
FLNT_anom:_FillValue = -999.f ;<br>
FLNT_anom:long_name = "OLR Anomalies from Raw Daily<br>
Climatology" ;<br>
FLNT_anom:units = "W/m2" ;<br>
float FLNT_anom_sm(time, lat, lon) ;<br>
FLNT_anom_sm:_FillValue = -999.f ;<br>
FLNT_anom_sm:long_name = "FLNT Anomalies from Smooth Daily<br>
Climatology" ;<br>
FLNT_anom_sm:units = "W/m2" ;<br>
<br>
// global attributes:<br>
:creation_date = "Wed Sep 5 13:44:55 CDT 2012" ;<br>
:title = "FLNT: Daily Anomalies: 1980-1997" ; }<br>
<br>
----------------------------------------------------<br>
<br>
The error I keep getting when I type "open test.ctl" is:<br>
<br>
Scanning description file: test.ctl<br>
Open Error: Missing or invalid dimension size.<br>
--> The invalid description file record is:<br>
--> XDEF lon 144 LINEAR 0.0 2.5<br>
The data file was not opened.<br>
<br>
<br>
What is wrong with the xdef line? it seems so basic to implement, but it<br>
won't work.<br>
<br>
any help that anyone has would be much appreciated,<br>
<br>
thanks,<br>
<br>
Cara-Lyn<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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<br>
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<br>
<br>
<br>
Cara-Lyn<br>
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