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If you enter "q file" at the GrADS prompt it should list the
variables.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/18/14 5:52 PM, David Stanfel
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">How do I know what variable name will work? I've
tried u, v, w, and z and still only get:
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Menlo">ga->
d v</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Menlo">Error:
Variable v not in netcdf file</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Menlo">Data
Request Error: Error for variable 'v'</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Menlo"> Error
ocurred at column 1</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Menlo">DISPLAY
error: Invalid expression </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Menlo">
Expression = v</p>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
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<div>David</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 11:13 PM,
Hosmay Lopez <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:hlopez@rsmas.miami.edu" target="_blank">hlopez@rsmas.miami.edu</a>></span>
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style="direction:ltr;font-family:Tahoma;color:#000000;font-size:10pt">David,<br>
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You should let GrADS know that the file is a netCDF. You
do that by adding the following text line in your
control file:<br>
<br>
DTYPE netcdf<br>
<br>
Insert such after the UNDEF line.<br>
<br>
Good luck!<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [gradsusr] Displaying a .nc file<br>
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<div dir="ltr">So I figured out how to use a
descriptor file but I am still having troubles
opening the file. My descriptor file is as
follows:
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<div><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">DSET
^atmos_month.nc.0000</span><br
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">
<span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">UNDEF
1.e-10</span><br
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">
<span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">TITLE
6 Months Sample Model Output</span><br
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">
<span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">*</span><br
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">
<span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">XDEF
96 LINEAR 0.0 3.75</span><br
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">
<span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">*</span><br
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">
<span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">YDEF
80 GAUSR30 1</span><br
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">
<span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">*</span><br
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">
<span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">ZDEF
18 LEVELS 1000 950 900 850 800 750 700
650 600 550 500 450 400 350 300</span><br
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">
<span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">250
200 150 </span><br
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">
<span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">*</span><br
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">
<span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">TDEF
804 LINEAR JAN0 1MO</span><br
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">
<span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">*</span><br
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">
<span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">VARS
7</span><br
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">
<span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">u
18 0 u</span><br
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">
<span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">v
18 0 v</span><br
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">
<span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">w
18 0 v</span><br
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">
<span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">t
18 0 v</span><br
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">
<span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">sh
18 0 v</span><br
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">
<span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">rh
18 0 v</span><br
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">
<span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">z
18 0 v</span><br
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">
<span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px">ENDVARS</span><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Courier
New',Courier,monospace;font-size:14px"><br>
</span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font
face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">It
was able to open it without issue:</font></span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font
face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font></span></div>
<div>
<p
style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Menlo">ga->
open cont.ctl </p>
<p
style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Menlo">Scanning
description file: cont.ctl</p>
<p
style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Menlo">Data
file atmos_month.nc.0000 is open as file 1</p>
<p
style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Menlo">LON
set to 0 360 </p>
<p
style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Menlo">LAT
set to -88.29 88.29 </p>
<p
style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Menlo">LEV
set to 1000 1000 </p>
<p
style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Menlo">Time
values set: 0:1:1:0 0:1:1:0 </p>
<p
style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Menlo">E
set to 1 1 </p>
<p
style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Menlo"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin:0px"><font face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif">However, I am
having trouble displaying the data. I
tried to use the display command (d)
with this result:</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px"><font face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font></p>
<p
style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Menlo">ga->
d atmos_month.nc.0000</p>
<p
style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Menlo">Syntax
error: Bad file number for variable
atmos_month </p>
<p
style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Menlo">
Error ocurred at column 1</p>
<p
style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Menlo">DISPLAY
error: Invalid expression </p>
<p
style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Menlo">
Expression = atmos_month.nc.0000</p>
<p
style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Menlo"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin:0px"><font face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif">Is my syntax off?</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px"><font face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px"><font face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks,</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px"><font face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px"><font face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif">David</font></p>
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