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> Full Name: Alain Ferragut > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: none > Package Version: 2.9b1 build date:2010-05-07 19:08 UTC > Operating System: Windows XP > Hardware: Java: home: C:\Program Files\IDV_2.9b1\jre version: 1.6.0_20 > j3d:1.5.2 fcs (build4) > Description of problem: > > Hello, when I try to aggregate several grib2 files generated by WRF NMM > I get the following errors, > > Thanks, > > ALain Alain, I wonder if there are multiple time steps in each of the grib2 file you tried to aggregate. We may have some problems handling these files in our ncml library. Could you up load a few sample file here, so I can trace the problem locally. http://motherlode.ucar.edu/repository/alias/idvupload Yuan > > > There was an error loading the data: > Error creating data source:aggregated.netcdf.grid with: [C:\Documents and > Settings\Papa\Mes > documents\m?t?o\Pr?visions\FranceNordHR\export\1006041200_nmm_d01_f100000.grb2, > C:\Documents and Settings\Papa\Mes > documents\m?t?o\Pr?visions\FranceNordHR\export\1006041200_nmm_d01_f110000.grb2, > C:\Documents and Settings\Papa\Mes > documents\m?t?o\Pr?visions\FranceNordHR\export\1006041200_nmm_d01_f120000.grb2, > C:\Documents and Settings\Papa\Mes > documents\m?t?o\Pr?visions\FranceNordHR\export\1006041200_nmm_d01_f130000.grb2, > C:\Documents and Settings\Papa\Mes > documents\m?t?o\Pr?visions\FranceNordHR\export\1006041200_nmm_d01_f140000.grb2, > C:\Documents and Settings\Papa\Mes > documents\m?t?o\Pr?visions\FranceNordHR\export\1006041200_nmm_d01_f150000.grb2, > C:\Documents and Settings\Papa\Mes > documents\m?t?o\Pr?visions\FranceNordHR\export\1006041200_nmm_d01_f160000.grb2, > C:\Documents and Settings\Papa\Mes > documents\m?t?o\Pr?visions\FranceNordHR\export\1006041200_nmm_d01_f170000.grb2, > C:\Document s and Settings\Papa\Mes documents\m?t?o\Pr?visions\FranceNordHR\export\1006041200_nmm_d01_f180000.grb2, C:\Documents and Settings\Papa\Mes documents\m?t?o\Pr?visions\FranceNordHR\export\1006041200_nmm_d01_f190000.grb2, C:\Documents and Settings\Papa\Mes documents\m?t?o\Pr?visions\FranceNordHR\export\1006041200_nmm_d01_f200000.grb2, C:\Documents and Settings\Papa\Mes documents\m?t?o\Pr?visions\FranceNordHR\export\1006041200_nmm_d01_f210000.grb2, C:\Documents and Settings\Papa\Mes documents\m?t?o\Pr?visions\FranceNordHR\export\1006041200_nmm_d01_f220000.grb2, C:\Documents and Settings\Papa\Mes documents\m?t?o\Pr?visions\FranceNordHR\export\1006041200_nmm_d01_f230000.grb2, C:\Documents and Settings\Papa\Mes documents\m?t?o\Pr?visions\FranceNordHR\export\1006041200_nmm_d01_f240000.grb2, C:\Documents and Settings\Papa\Mes documents\m?t?o\Pr?visions\FranceNordHR\export\1006041200_nmm_d01_f250000.grb2, C:\Documents and Settings\Papa\Mes documents\m?t?o\Pr?visions\FranceNordHR\expor t\1006041200_nmm_d01_f260000.grb2, C:\Documents and Settings\Papa\Mes documents\m?t?o\Pr?visions\FranceNordHR\export\1006041200_nmm_d01_f270000.grb2, C:\Documents and Settings\Papa\Mes documents\m?t?o\Pr?visions\FranceNordHR\export\1006041200_nmm_d01_f280000.grb2, C:\Documents and Settings\Papa\Mes documents\m?t?o\Pr?visions\FranceNordHR\export\1006041200_nmm_d01_f290000.grb2, C:\Documents and Settings\Papa\Mes documents\m?t?o\Pr?visions\FranceNordHR\export\1006041200_nmm_d01_f300000.grb2, C:\Documents and Settings\Papa\Mes documents\m?t?o\Pr?visions\FranceNordHR\export\1006041200_nmm_d01_f310000.grb2, C:\Documents and Settings\Papa\Mes documents\m?t?o\Pr?visions\FranceNordHR\export\1006041200_nmm_d01_f320000.grb2, C:\Documents and Settings\Papa\Mes documents\m?t?o\Pr?visions\FranceNordHR\export\1006041200_nmm_d01_f330000.grb2, C:\Documents and Settings\Papa\Mes documents\m?t?o\Pr?visions\FranceNordHR\export\1006041200_nmm_d01_f340000.grb2, C:\Documents and Settings\Papa\Mes documents\m?t?o\Pr?visions\FranceNordHR\export\1006041200_nmm_d01_f350000.grb2, C:\Documents and Settings\Papa\Mes documents\m?t?o\Pr?visions\FranceNordHR\export\1006041200_nmm_d01_f360000.grb2] > Grid data source failed making data set: C:\Documents and > Settings\Papa\.unidata\idv\DefaultIdv\tmp\multigrid5.ncml > Error on line 4 of document > file:C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Papa/.unidata/idv/DefaultIdv/tmp/multigrid5.ncml: > Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence. > > ****************** > Stack trace: > java.io.IOException: Error on line 4 of document > file:C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Papa/.unidata/idv/DefaultIdv/tmp/multigrid5.ncml: > Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence. > at ucar.nc2.ncml.NcMLReader.readNcML(NcMLReader.java:233) > at ucar.nc2.ncml.NcMLReader.readNcML(NcMLReader.java:202) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.acquireNcml(NetcdfDataset.java:801) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.openOrAcquireFile(NetcdfDataset.java:677) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.openDataset(NetcdfDataset.java:434) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.acquireDataset(NetcdfDataset.java:527) > at ucar.nc2.dt.grid.GridDataset.open(GridDataset.java:103) > at ucar.nc2.dt.grid.GridDataset.open(GridDataset.java:89) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.doMakeDataSet(GeoGridDataSource.java:1106) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.getDataset(GeoGridDataSource.java:1128) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.initAfterCreation(GeoGridDataSource.java:490) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:1565) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.createDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1998) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1915) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1849) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1822) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.IdvChooser.makeDataSource(IdvChooser.java:943) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.selectFilesInner(FileChooser.java:656) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.selectFiles(FileChooser.java:525) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.doLoadInThread(FileChooser.java:547) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) > at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$2.run(Misc.java:1061) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1089) > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: SUO-450889 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open