<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi, James -- <div>I am not able to reproduce this problem. I can display all the variables using your full descriptor on my OSX laptop and our CentOS servers. Perhaps there is a memory issue -- are you working on a platform that has little available memory? </div><div>--Jennifer</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 20, 2013, at 10:15 AM, James E. Johnson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Thursday 19 September 2013 06:11:44 pm James E. Johnson wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">On Thursday 19 September 2013 04:55:58 pm Jennifer Adams wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">First of all, thank you for providing all the information and data I<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">needed to reproduce the error! The failure of method 1 (using array<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">indices in the units field of the variable declaration instead of<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">x,y,z,t,e) is indeed a bug that is unique to the hdf5 data type. The<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">critical bit of information in the error message from the HDF5 library<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">was this: "src and dest data spaces have different sizes." In method 1,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">the variables are described to GrADS as being only 2-dimensional (i.e.,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">not Z-varying) even though they really have 3 varying dimensions, and the<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">library trips on this deception. The netcdf library is not as fussy. I<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">will put a fix in version 2.1, but for now you will have to use method 2.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">--Jennifer<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks Jennifer,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I think there may be another bug. I have a more extensive control file with<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">all the variables from the file. I can successfully display data from the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">first variable I read, but subsequent variables complain:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.8.7) thread 0:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> #000: H5Shyper.c line 6593 in H5Sselect_hyperslab(): not a data space<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> major: Invalid arguments to routine<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> minor: Inappropriate type<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">HDF5 Error: unable to select dataspace hyperslab<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Data Request Error: Error for variable 'uvai'<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Error ocurred at column 1<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">DISPLAY error: Invalid expression<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Expression = uvai<br></blockquote><br>One thing I notice is that if I close the control file, and reopen it, then I <br>can read another variable. But it seems GrADS 2.0.2 has a problem somewhere <br>allowing you to read/displaying mutliple variables.<br><br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>| James E. Johnson | address: |<br>| ADNET Systems, Inc. | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |<br>| e-mail: <a href="mailto:james.johnson@nasa.gov">james.johnson@nasa.gov</a> | Data and Information Services Center |<br>| phone: 301-614-5121 | Code 610.2, Bldg 32, Room S130G |<br>| fax: 301-614-5268 | Greenbelt, MD 20771 |<br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br><a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br>http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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