<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;">Your descriptor needs ‘dtype netcdf’ and a different variable declaration — the “99” needs a list of comma-delimited coordinate axes, perhaps like “z,y,x” but it will depend on the shape of the variables you’re describing. Please see <a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/SDFdescriptorfile.html">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/SDFdescriptorfile.html</a>.<div>—Jennifer</div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 28, 2015, at 12:15 PM, PHILBERT LUHUNGA <<a href="mailto:philuhunga@yahoo.com">philuhunga@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 24px;"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31425"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31464">Hi everyone, I am coming across with a problem which I cannot figure out how to resolve it.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31425" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31517" class="">I am opening a netcdf file, with a descriptor file. The file open but when I set gxout shaded, and display the variable, nothing happen but a blank figure appears. When I set gxout print and when I d variable I am getting strange values</span>.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31425" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31773" class="">02551e+23</span><br clear="none" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31775" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31777" class="">78311e+09 -4.651e+19 -6.08148e-06 -7.84793e+17 0.000288823 -6.11569e+35 5.</span><br clear="none" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31779" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31781" class="">11 -3.51827e-11</span><br clear="none" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31783" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31785" class="">64293e-30 -1.16457e+08 -2.98267e-35 -5.63985e+29 1.6211e+08 3.12801e-31 -2</span><br clear="none" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31787" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31789" class="">e-13 1.75172e-27</span><br clear="none" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31791" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31793" class="">03e-09 -7.72053e-25 -8.10953e+21 -5.78092e-14 -6.50656e+32 3.85024e-35 305</span><br clear="none" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31795" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31797" class="">.231599</span><br clear="none" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31799" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31801" class="">41691e+31 4.06909e-12 7.699e-30 1.86735e-26 -4.92652e-05 -6.30345e+35 -4.3</span><br clear="none" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31803" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31805" class="">21 8.38019e-30</span><br clear="none" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31807" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31809" class="">44686e-27 3.42916e-36 -1.44624e+13 5.74785e+20 -6.14774e+20 4.80674e+18 1.</span><br clear="none" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31811" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31813" class="">+18 -3.20695e+27</span><br clear="none" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31815" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31817" class="">4793e-28 -4.39624e-05 -1.00517e-12 1.32428e-15 6.12485e-22 63303.6 -1.7084</span><br clear="none" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31819" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31821" class="">9.97363e-17</span><br clear="none" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31823" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31825" class="">60567e+22 -6.90464e-36 -1.44687e-20 8.43893e-07 -6.6683e+13 -4.48022e-25 -</span><br clear="none" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31827" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31829" class="">4e-23 -4.63784e-21</span><br clear="none" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31831" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31833" class="">5905e+24 3.04333e-38 1.96598e+24 1.20301e+32 -4.03105e+08 1.51837e+16 -123</span><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31425"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31425"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31846">could anyone help me to resolve this problems.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31425"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31425"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31692">my descriptor file is </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31425" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31696" class="">dset ^tasmax_1971-2005.nc</span><br style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31698" class=""><br style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31700" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31702" class="">title dummy descriptor file</span><br style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31704" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443365378022_31706" class="">options 365_day_calendar</span><br style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; 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LUHUNGA
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Philbert Modest Luhunga
University of Pretoria
Department of Geography,Geoinformatics and Meteorology
Private Bag X20 Hatfield 0028 South Africa
Tel +27 (0) 12 420 5164
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Mobile:+ 27826228060
Email address: <a href="mailto:philuhunga@yahoo.com">philuhunga@yahoo.com</a></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br><a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br>http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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