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Bonjour Gilles, The output of pinterp is not CF compliant. You can use ncml to fix this problem. Or use the official WRF post-process script. We missed you at AMS :-) Unidata IDV Support > Full Name: Gilles Arfeuille > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: Universidadd de Colima > Package Version: 3.0u2 build date:2012-02-10 17:21 UTC > Operating System: Linux > Hardware: Java: home: /home/gilles/IDV_3.0u2/jre version: 1.6.0_20 j3d:1.5.2 > fcs (build4) > Description of problem: > > There was an error loading the data: > > Error creating data source:file.grid with: > /home/gilles/IDV_3.0u2/wrfout_d01_2012-12-30_18_00_00_PLEV.nc > Grid data source failed making data set: > /home/gilles/IDV_3.0u2/wrfout_d01_2012-12-30_18_00_00_PLEV.nc > Variable name (Mercator) must be unique within Group > > ****************** > Stack trace: > java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Variable name (Mercator) must be unique > within Group > at ucar.nc2.Group.addVariable(Group.java:458) > at ucar.nc2.NetcdfFile.addVariable(NetcdfFile.java:1570) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.addVariable(NetcdfDataset.java:1403) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.conv.WRFConvention.augmentDataset(WRFConvention.java:317) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.enhance(NetcdfDataset.java:455) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.<init>(NetcdfDataset.java:1186) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.openDataset(NetcdfDataset.java:430) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.acquireDataset(NetcdfDataset.java:520) > at ucar.nc2.dt.grid.GridDataset.open(GridDataset.java:101) > at ucar.nc2.dt.grid.GridDataset.open(GridDataset.java:87) > 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:1577) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.createDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1980) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1897) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1831) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1804) > 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:1062) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1090) > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: ZEQ-887684 Department: Support IDV Priority: High Status: Closed