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Hi Jim, Yuan found the issue, and a fix will be in the nightly build for tomorrow. Thanks for the bug report! Sean > Hi Jim, > > That's an interesting one! I can download the .ar2v file from the THREDDS > server > and I get the same error reading off of disk; however, I don't have that > issue with > other .ar2v files, such as KTLX. I tried different versions of the IDV, and > the results > are interesting, too: > > Latest from github, ncIdv 4.3.19-20131008144400 > *** Null Pointer Exception > > IDV 4.1, ncIdv 4.3.19-SNAPSHOT-20130802112000 > *** Null Pointer Exception > > IDV 4.0u1, ncIdv 4.3.16-20130311151100: > *** Error: No data for Reflectivity file=/path/to/file > > IDV 3.1u1, ncIdv 4.2.?: > *** can read the data just fine > > I can also read the file using python, so I don't think it's > a data format change issue. > > It could be in netCDF-Java, it could be in the IDV. Yuan, > do you know if anything has changed on the IDV side in > terms of RADAR file reading? If not, I can take a look into > the netCDF-Java side of things. > > Thanks for the report, Jim! > > Sean > > > Hi: > > > > This might be a THREDDS issue, but I am getting the following error: > > > > There was an error loading the data: > > java.lang.NullPointerException > > > > WHen trying to load most recent times from the KTYX level II radar from IDD. > > > > Jim > > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: PHO-262246 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open