<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">You need 'dtype netcdf' and a different variable declaration. Please see the documetation: <div><a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/SDFdescriptorfile.html">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/SDFdescriptorfile.html</a></div><div>--Jennifer</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Jul 27, 2014, at 3:07 AM, Syed Ahsan Ali wrote:<div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>I was trying to open a netcdf file and there was error SDF file has no discernible X coordinate. I wrote a grads description file the data file as below</div><span lang=""><p>DSET ^<a href="http://GlobSnow_SWE_L3B_monthly_201301_v2.0.nc/">GlobSnow_SWE_L3B_monthly_201301_v2.0.nc</a></p>
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XDEF 1637 LINEAR -180 0.22</div><div>
YDEF 200 LINEAR 35 0.22</div><div>
ZDEF 1 LEVELS 1000</div><div>
TDEF 1 LINEAR jan2013 1mo</div><div>VARS 2</div><div>
SWE_avg 1 99</div><div>
SWE_max 1 99 </div><div>
ENDVARS</div><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p>The file is opened but data is not being displayed rather some abnormal values like -8e+38 are shown.</p></span><p>File is present on dropbox link <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/fp6rft5g26hej49/GlobSnow_SWE_L3B_monthly_201301_v2.0.nc">https://www.dropbox.com/s/fp6rft5g26hej49/GlobSnow_SWE_L3B_monthly_201301_v2.0.nc</a> . output from ncdump is attached. Please guide me.</p>
<div> </div><div>Regards<br clear="all">Ahsan</div>
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