<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi, Christopher — <div> GrADS won’t set the T, Z, or E to varying by default when you open a file, even if Y is fixed. I think all you need to do is ‘set t 1 12’ before you invoke ‘display’. I used ‘sdfopen’ with your file, then ’set t’ and ’set gxout grfill’ and got this: </div><div><img height="476" width="638" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="4E63B9E8-699E-4C2F-9844-CEE864002FC6" src="cid:4FA4917D-1A3C-4210-A0E6-E8B9A80A0F4E"></div><div><div><br><div>—Jennifer<br><div><br><div><div>On Oct 28, 2014, at 6:13 PM, Lynnes, Christopher S. (GSFC-6102) <<a href="mailto:christopher.s.lynnes@nasa.gov">christopher.s.lynnes@nasa.gov</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div class="PlainText">I have a netCDF file with a 12-element time dimension, expressed in "seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00", with the first time on Jan 1, 1998. But when I read in the file (attached), it seems to see only the first time:<br>
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> ga-> sdfopen test4.nc<br>
> Scanning self-describing file: test4.nc<br>
> SDF file test4.nc is open as file 1<br>
> LON set to 137.875 179.875 <br>
> LAT set to 1 1 <br>
> LEV set to 0 0 <br>
> Time values set: 1998:1:1:0 1998:1:1:0 <br>
> E set to 1 1 <br>
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with the result then when I plot it, I get not the hovmoller I wanted, but just a line plot vs. longitude.<br>
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I tried xdfopen with the descriptor file:<br>
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> DSET test4.nc<br>
> TDEF time 12 LINEAR 1JAN1998 1mo<br>
> VARS 1<br>
> precip=>precip<br>
> ENDVARS<br>
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but with the same result.<br>
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What is the recommended way for encoding a time dimension either in netCDF for GrADS to use, or alternatively, using xdfopen?<br>
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Dr. Christopher Lynnes NASA/GSFC, Code 610.2 phone: 301-614-5185<br>
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