[ARPSSUPPORT] NETCDF

[Marwan Katurji]

Kevin,

I gzipped it before sending. Thanks for checking the file. Now I know 
for sure that the problem is from idv. Like you said it is a valid ncdf 
file. But it seems that the new version of idv still has the missing 
ARPS compatibility library. Will contact idv for that.

Cheers
Marwan

Marwan Katurji

PhD Candidate
Center for Atmospheric Research
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University of Canterbury
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Kevin W. Thomas wrote:
>> Hi Kevin,
>>
>> This is quite strange. First of all when I dump arps output in netcdf  
>> dump option 8 I get one file called may20.nc, there are no two files 
>> like you mentioned. But when I use the option 7 , which gives separate 
>> output for every dump step, I get *.netgrdbas, *net000000, and the 
>> consequent dump times that is normal.
>>
>> I've downloaded the latest version of  idv2.8a1 and still it won't 
>> recognize the netcdf file as gridded data set. I've sent them a support 
>> request so maybe they have an answer. But in the meantime I've attached  
>> a *.nc file from a sample simulation, it should contain the grdbas 
>> values and a 1 minute sample time output from the may20 demo simulation. 
>> I plotted this file in arpspltpost and it was fine, I've seen the 1 
>> minute result, so I presume it is an Ok netcdf file. By the way I used 
>> the same file as the grdbas file and history file in my arpsltpost 
>> namelist file. Can you please check the file from your side and see if 
>> it is a valid nc file before I continue, maybe if you can plot it with 
>> idv and check, that will be very appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Marwan
>>
>> Marwan Katurji
>>
>> PhD Candidate
>> Center for Atmospheric Research
>> Department of Geography, 3rd floor
>> University of Canterbury
>> Private Bag 4800
>> Christchurch 8140, New Zealand
>> -----------------
>> Work:  +64 3 364 2987  ext: 3088
>> Mobile:+64 212 049534
>> Fax:   +64 3 364 2907
>>
>> Email: marwan.houda at gmail.com
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>
> Marwan...
>
> Off hand, I don't see anything wrong with the file.  It's a netCDF 64-bit file.
> The netCDF program "ncdump" doesn't have any complaints.  If it was a bad file,
> "arpspltpost" wouldn't have worked.
>
> I'm assuming you gzipped the file before you sent it.  ARPS software can handle
> gzipped files.  I doubt if IDV can.
>
> I can't help you with IDV.  I tried starting up my old version, and couldn't
> get anything useful to happen.  I'm running Solaris, and I know I've had
> problems when I tried to use IDV in the past.
>
> 	== kwthomas ==
>
>