<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">You are mixing elements of an xdfopen-stle descriptor and a full descriptor file. <div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">DSET /stu_home/corey/tos_Omon_GISS-E2-H_historical_r1i1p1_%ch.nc</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">OPTIONS template</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">TDEF time 1872 linear 01jan1850 1mo</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">CHSUB 1 612 185001-190012</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">CHSUB 613 1212 190101-195012</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">CHSUB 1213 1872 195101-200512</span></font></div><div><br></div><div>The above is all that is needed for xdfopen. </div><div>If you want to alias the variable name, you can add your variable declaration:</div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">vars 1</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">tos=>sst</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">endvars</span></font></div><div><br></div><div>--Jennifer</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>On Apr 1, 2014, at 11:11 AM, Corey Gabriel wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi:</div><div> </div><div>I am trying to create a time series spanning 150 years using templating to plot 3 files together. Aparently there is a problem with my descriptor file. I can't identify the problem. I've provided the content of the data descriptor file and the error message produced when I attempt to run the executable file in gads.</div>
<div> </div><div>Thanks so much!</div><div>Corey</div><div> </div><div><strong>DSET /stu_home/corey/tos_Omon_GISS-E2-H_historical_r1i1p1_.%<a href="http://ch.nc/">ch.nc</a><br>CHSUB 1 612 185001-190012<br>CHSUB 613 1212 190101-195012<br>
CHSUB 1213 1872 195101-200512<br>OPTIONS template<br>DTYPE netcdf<br>TITLE SST (C) Nino3.4<br>UNDEF 1.e+20 _FillValue<br>OPTIONS 365_day_calendar<br>XDEF lon 144 linear 1.25 2.5<br>YDEF lat 90 linear -89 2<br>TDEF time 1872 linear 01jan1850 1mo<br>
VARS 1 <br>tos=>sst 0 t,x,y Sea Surface Temperature<br>ENDVARS</strong></div><div><strong></strong> </div><div><strong></strong> </div><div><strong>ERROR MESSAGEE:</strong></div><div>xdfopen GISShisttemplate.ctl<br>Scanning Descriptor File: GISShisttemplate.ctl<br>
read_metadata: gaopfn failed (rc=-88888)<br>gadsdf: Couldn't ingest SDF metadata.<br>SDF Descriptor file GISShisttemplate.ctl was not successfully opened & parsed.<br>EXEC error: error in GISShisttemplate.x. EXEC stopped.<br>
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