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> Hello, > > Thanks for the help. I tried setting the stride equal to every tenth > point, and I don't receive the "Java heap space" error, but the data > still doesn't display...all I see is a blank black background with a > white square. It appears the data is loading. Are there any additional > settings I need to make to allow the data to display? > > Jason Jason, There is a bug in the projection apis in our 2.8u1 release, we just fixed it and you should be able to download a nightly build tomorrow. That should fix the problem of displaying. Here is the URL: "http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/idv/nightly/index.jsp" Yuan > > Unidata IDV Support wrote: > >> Full Name: Jason Levit > >> Email Address: address@hidden > >> Organization: National Weather Service > >> Package Version: 2.8u1 build date:2010-02-02 22:30 UTC > >> Operating System: Linux > >> Hardware: Java: home: /eee/users/Jason.Levit/IDV_2.8u1/jre version: > >> 1.6.0_17 j3d:1.5.2 fcs (build4) > >> Description of problem: Creating display: Contour Plan View > >> Java heap space > >> > >> I was attempting to display netCDF data sets available from: > >> > >> http://ngen-cospa.wx.ll.mit.edu/atomfeeds/cospaDataFeed.atom > >> > >> Whenever I attempt to display these, I receive a "Java heap space" error, > >> and the data > >> cannot be displayed. > >> > > Jason, > > The dataset is very big, you need to subset the data. The variable > > Echo Top has the dimension 3520 X 5120 and the type is double, if you can > > subset it by setting the stride of x, y dimension to every tenth point, it > > will display. > > > > > > Yuan > > > -- > ____________________________________________________________________ > Jason J. Levit Techniques Development Meteorologist > address@hidden DOC/NOAA/NWS/NCEP Aviation Weather Center > 816/584-7241(O) 816/728-1226(C) http://aviationweather.gov/ > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: PXN-354901 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open