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[Support #UPW-774161]: RE: [idvusers] Access to the Unidata and NSF xml catalogs in IDV

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  • Subject: [Support #UPW-774161]: RE: [idvusers] Access to the Unidata and NSF xml catalogs in IDV
  • Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:24:45 -0700
Hi Bill-

> I will try that later today. As for the backwards ordering I'm a little 
> confused.  The CF conventions were telling me to do it so that an array was 
> (T, Z, Y, X) and the CF diagnostic script said that it was OK.  Is IDV 
> expecting a different order for TZYX?

No, that's what we are expecting, but your file looks like:

   float Temperature(nx_lon=50, nx_lat=50, nz_height_above_ground_t=15, 
nt_time=9);
     :long_name = "Temperature @ height_above_ground";
     :units = "K";
     :standard_name = "air_temperature";
     :coordinates = "time height_above_ground_t lat lon";
     :maxvalue = 301.2f; // float
     :minvalue = 200.0f; // float
   float Geopotential_height_surface(nx_lon=50, nx_lat=50);
     :long_name = "Geopotential height @ surface";
     :units = "m";
     :standard_name = "surface_altitude";
     :coordinates = "lat lon";
     :maxvalue = 3017.7f; // float
     :minvalue = 28.1f; // float

which is X,Y,Z,T and X,Y

I would expect them to look like:

   float Temperature(nt_time=9, nz_height_above_ground_t=15,, nx_lat=50, 
nx_lon=50);
     :long_name = "Temperature @ height_above_ground";
     :units = "K";
     :standard_name = "air_temperature";
     :coordinates = "time height_above_ground_t lat lon";
     :maxvalue = 301.2f; // float
     :minvalue = 200.0f; // float
   float Geopotential_height_surface(nx_lat=50, nx_lon=50);
     :long_name = "Geopotential height @ surface";
     :units = "m";
     :standard_name = "surface_altitude";
     :coordinates = "lat lon";
     :maxvalue = 3017.7f; // float
     :minvalue = 28.1f; // float

Don


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: UPW-774161
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open