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> Full Name: Banu Baydil > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: RPI > Package Version: 3.0b1 build date:2011-07-01 17:24 UTC > Operating System: Windows 7 > Hardware: Java: home: C:\Program Files\Java\jre6 version: 1.6.0_26 j3d:1.5.2 > fcs (build4) > Description of problem: > > There was an error loading the data: > Hi Banu, This is a example of bad data management. This is not compressed file, should not be named as *.gz. If you want to display it in the IDV, you should download it to local disk, and rename it to something without .gz, and load it directly into the IDV. Yuan > Error creating data source:opendap.grid with: > http://podaac-opendap.jpl.nasa.gov:80/opendap/allData/oscar/preview/L4/oscar_third_deg/oscar_vel1992.nc.gz > Grid data source failed making data set: > dods://podaac-opendap.jpl.nasa.gov:80/opendap/allData/oscar/preview/L4/oscar_third_deg/oscar_vel1992.nc.gz > Illegal Numeric Value for Attribute Value for missing_value > > ****************** > Stack trace: > java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal Numeric Value for Attribute Value > for missing_value > at ucar.nc2.dods.DODSAttribute.<init>(DODSAttribute.java:112) > at ucar.nc2.dods.DodsV.addAttribute(DodsV.java:425) > at ucar.nc2.dods.DodsV.addAttributeTable(DodsV.java:416) > at ucar.nc2.dods.DodsV.parseDAS(DodsV.java:391) > at ucar.nc2.dods.DODSNetcdfFile.<init>(DODSNetcdfFile.java:264) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.acquireDODS(NetcdfDataset.java:786) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.openOrAcquireFile(NetcdfDataset.java:654) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.openDataset(NetcdfDataset.java:424) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.acquireDataset(NetcdfDataset.java:520) > 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:1094) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.getDataset(GeoGridDataSource.java:1116) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.initAfterCreation(GeoGridDataSource.java:478) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:1553) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:1336) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:1319) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.loadDataFiles(IntegratedDataViewer.java:574) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.initInner(IntegratedDataViewer.java:640) > at ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer$3.run(IntegratedDataViewer.java:550) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1091) > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: DSR-115565 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Closed