<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div><font size="2"><span>Dear All,</span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font size="2"><span> I am novel with GrADS and recently was doing a case study of a lightning that killed 8 people at once and same place. As I was trying to load cape.2013.nc and cin.2013.nc I encountered an error that I am failing to resolve up to now. The error is shwon below:</span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font
size="2"><span>=====================================================<br></span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font size="2"><span>ga-> sdfopen c:/Users/CHARLES/Downloads/cape.2013.nc<br>Scanning self-describing file: c:/Users/CHARLES/Downloads/cape.2013.nc<br>gadsdf: SDF file has no discernable X coordinate.<br> To open this file with GrADS, use a descriptor file with an XDEF entry.<br> Documentation is at http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/SDFdescriptorfile.html<br>ga-></span></font></div><div> ======================================<br><font size="2">Now the question is how can I open such kind of data in Grads. I read through the mentioned document but it is not helpful to me. Can any one help me with guidance and set of commands to open and read this data? the
data is accessible from <br>http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/thredds/fileServer/Datasets/NARR/monolevel/cin.2013.nc <br>Thanks in advance</font><br><br></div><div><span style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:16px;">Charles Langton Vanya</span></span></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-style:italic;">(Principal Meteorologist)</span></span></span><br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span style="font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size:16px;">Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services,</span></span></div><div
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