[IDV #SUO-450889]: impossible to aggregate gib2 files by time

> 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
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Ticket ID: SUO-450889
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open