Re: 20050228: decoders and IDV

>
> >To: Unidata Support <address@hidden>
> >From: "Mark J. Laufersweiler" <address@hidden>
> >Subject: decoders and IDV
> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata
> >Keywords: 200502282237.j1SMb2v2020244
>
>
> Hello
>
> I am tryin to set up my DODS/ADDE/THREDDS server and have started
> with something simple to server up and so I figured I would start
> with the metars. But now I not sure what I doing wrong. When I run
> the idv on the created metart netcdf file I get:
>
> java -Xmx512m -jar idv.jar (wd: ~/idv)
>
> Couldn't decode unit attribute (0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8 Table 12-5) of
> variable "char_Ptend": Lexical error at line 1, column 2.
> Encountered: "|" (124), after : ""
>
>
hey mark,

hope things are well with you.  good support question, has all the facts.
i downloaded and tested your metar netcdf example file. it's in the
correct format so that's not the problem. i speculate that the problem is
in the netCDF API that the IDV is using to read the file, so i'm including
others in this response to get their opinions.

the downloaded file is at:

/upc/share/testdata/station/ldm-old/markMetar.nc

robb...

> Here is what I have:
>
> decoders-3.0.8
> idv 1.2a2 or idv 1.2b2
> ldm 6.2.1
> perl v5.8.3 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi
> os fedora 2
> example file
>
> http://weather.ou.edu/~laufers/2005022812_metar.nc
>
> pqact entry:
>
> DDS|IDS         ^S(A....|P....|XUS8.) .... ([0-3][0-9])
>         PIPE    decoders/bin/metar2nc
>                 decoders/etc/metar.cdl
>                 data/netcdf/surface
>                 (\2:yyyy)(\2:mm)
>
> where decoders links to 3.0.8 build of the decoders.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> mjl
>
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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
address@hidden             WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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