<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The units field of your variable declaration is incorrect -- it needs to have a comma-delimited list of the varying dimensions of the variable, something like t,y,x or t,z,y,x. Also, you are aliasing ET to ET -- change that to ET=>et (GrADS wants lower case alphanumeric characters). If you are still having problems, please send the output from ncdump.h as well as your descriptor. GrADS version would also be useful. <div><div>--Jennifer<br><div>p.s. Please read the documentation at <a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/SDFdescriptorfile.html">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/SDFdescriptorfile.html</a> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 29, 2013, at 10:46 AM, Celso Bandeira de Melo Ribeiro wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hello,<br><br>Could someone please help me out?<br><br>I am using a netcdf file that I created using matlab. However, I am still<br>having trouble defining the .ctl file. The file contains just one variable<br>i.e. ET. I am having trouble defining 'VARS' in the .ctl file. I am<br>attaching my file with this email. Following is the .ctl file that I was<br>trying to use<br><br>DSET ^ET_2000M01.nc<br>UNDEF -3277<br>XDEF length 652 LINEAR -80.05 0.05<br>YDEF rows 527 LINEAR -20.25 0.05<br>*XDEF dimension1 651 LINEAR -80.05 0.05<br>*YDEF dimension2 526 LINEAR -20.25 0.05<br>*DTYPE netcdf<br>VARS 1<br>ET=>ET 1 99 ET<br>ENDVARS <br><br>When I try to display ET, I get the following error<br><br>gancgrid error: nc_get_vara_double failed; NetCDF: Start+count exceeds<br>dimension bound<br>Data Request Error: Error for variable 'et'<br> Error ocurred at column 1<br>DISPLAY error: Invalid expression <br> Expression = et<br><br>Thank you very much,<br>Celso<br><br><br>____________________________________________<br>Prof. Celso Bandeira de Melo Ribeiro<br>Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora - UFJF<br>Faculdade de Engenharia, Plataforma 4<br>Departamento de Engenharia Ambiental e Sanitaria<br>Bairro Martelos, Juiz de Fora (MG) CEP. 36036-900<br>tel. (32) 2102-3400<span><ET_2000M01.nc></span>_______________________________________________<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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