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> > Full Name: Song-Lak Kang > > Email Address: address@hidden > > Organization: Texas Tech Univ > > Package Version: 3.0b1 build date:2011-07-01 17:24 UTC > > Operating System: Mac OS X > > Hardware: Java: home: > > /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home version: > > 1.6.0_24 j3d:1.5.2 fcs (build4) > > Description of problem: Netcdf sweep error:init > Hi Song-Lak, > > Could you provide a little more information on this radar file you were > trying to load into the IDV? > > > Yuan > Never mind, I figured out this is not a radial type dataset, it is a grid type netCDF file, you should be able to load this into the IDV with the data source type as "Grid files". Yuan > > java.lang.NullPointerException > > > > ****************** > > Stack trace: > > java.lang.NullPointerException > > at > > ucar.unidata.data.radar.NetcdfSweepfileAdapter.loadData(NetcdfSweepfileAdapter.java:338) > > at > > ucar.unidata.data.radar.NetcdfSweepfileAdapter.init(NetcdfSweepfileAdapter.java:144) > > at > > ucar.unidata.data.radar.NetcdfSweepfileAdapter.<init>(NetcdfSweepfileAdapter.java:130) > > at > > ucar.unidata.data.radar.NetcdfRadarDataSource.makeRadarAdapter(NetcdfRadarDataSource.java:132) > > at ucar.unidata.data.radar.RadarDataSource$1.run(RadarDataSource.java:293) > > at visad.util.ThreadManager$1.run(ThreadManager.java:292) > > at visad.util.ThreadPool$ThreadMinnow.run(ThreadPool.java:136) > > > > > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: KOR-230870 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Closed