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[IDV #QSF-210498]: netCDF (supposedly) not opening in IDV

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  • Subject: [IDV #QSF-210498]: netCDF (supposedly) not opening in IDV
  • Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:00:28 -0600
Hi Martha,

> Making trouble again....
Yeah, yeah, yeah. What else is new :-)

> 
> There are some very interesting oceanographic datasets supposedly in netCDF 
> that I really want to put into IDV.
> 
> The attached file is extent -60 to -30 Lat and 1 - 30 Lon (I'm not crossing 
> the 0)
> The error is that IDV does not recognize the format and grid netCDF and I'm 
> feeling Lucky etc. does not work.
> 
> The website with all the data is:  http://reason.gsfc.nasa.gov/Giovanni/
> 
> The data I requested was : NOBM Assimilated Monthly Global Products   JAVA 
> Version    for the above extent Feb. 2002
> 
> 

The version of the IDV up until last week (really the netcdf lib we use) did 
not read those files - they were missing some attributes to make them fully CF 
compliant. However, we just released a new version of the IDV today that should 
be able to read those files. 

-Jeff


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: QSF-210498
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed