<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dear All, </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I downloaded the GFDL-ESM2M rainfall data (pr_Amon_GFDL-ESM2M_historical_r1i1p1_186101-186512.nc) from the following website</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><a href="http://clima-dods.ictp.it/data/d8/cordex/CMIP5/monthly/hist/GFDL-ESM2M/pr_Amon_GFDL-ESM2M_historical_r1i1p1_186101-186512.nc" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://clima-dods.ictp.it/data/d8/cordex/CMIP5/monthly/hist/GFDL-ESM2M/pr_Amon_GFDL-ESM2M_historical_r1i1p1_186101-186512.nc</a><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br clear="all"><div>But I am not able to open this file in grads.</div><div>The following errors are coming</div><div><br></div><div>While ncdump</div><div><br></div><div><div>ncdump -h pr_Amon_GFDL-ESM2M_historical_r1i1p1_200101-200512.nc</div>
<div>ncdump: pr_Amon_GFDL-ESM2M_historical_r1i1p1_200101-200512.nc: NetCDF: Unknown file format</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>in GrADS</div><div><br></div><div><div>ga-> sdfopen pr_Amon_GFDL-ESM2M_historical_r1i1p1_200101-200512.nc</div>
<div>Scanning self-describing file: pr_Amon_GFDL-ESM2M_historical_r1i1p1_200101-200512.nc</div><div>Error: nc_open failed to open file pr_Amon_GFDL-ESM2M_historical_r1i1p1_200101-200512.nc</div><div>NetCDF: Unknown file format</div>
<div>gadsdf: Couldn't ingest SDF metadata.</div></div><div><br></div><div>I also used control file(attached with this mail) still not able to plot this data. </div><div><br></div><div><div>ga-> open test.ctl </div>
<div>Scanning description file: test.ctl</div><div>Data file pr_Amon_GFDL-ESM2M_historical_r1i1p1_%<a href="http://ch.nc/" target="_blank">ch.nc</a> is open as file 1</div><div>LON set to 0 360 </div><div>LAT set to -89 89 </div>
<div>LEV set to 0 0 </div><div>Time values set: 1861:1:15:12 1861:1:15:12 </div><div>E set to 1 1 </div><div>ga-> d pr</div><div>Cannot contour grid - all undefined values </div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
Kindly suggest me how to use this data. </div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Kanhu Charan Pattnayak (Research Scholar)<br>Room No.311, Block - VI<br>Centre for Atmospheric Sciences<br>IIT Delhi, Hauz Khas<br>New Delhi - 110 016<br>
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