Re: 20041020: no record dimension data written to netCDF file

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Unidata Support wrote:

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> >To: address@hidden
> >From: "Lori Thompson" <address@hidden>
> >Subject: no record dimension data written to netCDF file
> >Organization: NOAA
> >Keywords: 200410201509.i9KF9IUE015245 gribtonc
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> I used gribtocdl and gribtonc to convert NCEP reanalysis2 GRIB data to
> netCDF. The resulting netCDF file contains the correct time levels (124)
> represented as RECORD dimension and all the variables are a function
> of this dimension. However, there is no data for RECORD in the data
> section. The data section contains values for reftime, valtime,
> datetime, valtime_offset and forecasttime. As a result, plots of the
> data show it as a function of 124 records, instead of the correct values
> as a representation of "hours since 1992-01-01..." The correct values
> are represented in the data section under reftime and valtime and the
> strings are correct for datetime and forecasttime. Is the correct
> solution to manipulate the CDL file and make the variables a funtion of
> valtime instead of record?

Lori,

no quite sure i understand fully what you  are saying, but if valtime
works...     could you send me your cdl file and the resulting netcdf file
with the data section, actually you could just send a ascii representation
of the vars reftime, valtime, datetime, valtime_offset and forecasttime.
also do you have a sample grib file i can get?

robb..,

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> Thanks in advance,
> Lori
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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
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