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> Full Name: Dave Dempsey > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: San Francisco State University > Package Version: 5.0 build date:2014-01-09 08:05 UTC > Operating System: Mac OS X > Hardware: Java: home: > /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home version: > 1.6.0_65 j3d:1.5.2 fcs (build4) > Description of problem: Couldn't get data > 3 > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > I'm running IDV v.5.0 (nightly build available 1/9/13) under Mac OS X v.10.9. > > I've loaded a MCIDAS AREA file (GOES-West IR image) accessed via our RAMADDA > v.1.6a server (http://virga.sfsu.edu:8080/repository/thredds > Weather Data > (Recent) > mcidas > gwir > 1401100200_sir.mca) and displayed it as a > color-shaded contour plot. This is successful. > > I then rubber-band a sub-domain of the image to zoom in on, which the IDV > displays successfully. However, the IDV then produces the error message above. > Dave, This dataset is a bit complicated. It is area file, but the IDV will process this as gridded file through the RAMADDA server. However, there is one dimension declared as z axis but storing band id information... I need to find out more information about this kind of data. Yuan > ****************** > Stack trace: > java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 3 > at ucar.visad.data.GeoGridFlatField.readData(GeoGridFlatField.java:265) > at visad.data.CachedFlatField.getMyValues(CachedFlatField.java:463) > at visad.data.CachedFlatField.unpackFloats(CachedFlatField.java:602) > at visad.data.CachedFlatField.getRanges(CachedFlatField.java:369) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridAdapter.readTimeStep(GeoGridAdapter.java:1563) > at ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridAdapter.access$100(GeoGridAdapter.java:113) > at ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridAdapter$1.run(GeoGridAdapter.java:1455) > at visad.util.ThreadManager.runInParallel(ThreadManager.java:273) > at visad.util.ThreadManager.runInParallel(ThreadManager.java:245) > at visad.util.ThreadManager.runInParallel(ThreadManager.java:212) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridAdapter.makeSequence(GeoGridAdapter.java:1472) > at ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridAdapter.getSequence(GeoGridAdapter.java:1140) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.makeFieldImpl(GeoGridDataSource.java:2042) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.getDataInner(GeoGridDataSource.java:1366) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataSourceImpl.getData(DataSourceImpl.java:2389) > at ucar.unidata.data.DirectDataChoice.getData(DirectDataChoice.java:332) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataChoice.getData(DataChoice.java:637) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataInstance.getData(DataInstance.java:243) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataInstance.getData(DataInstance.java:207) > at ucar.unidata.data.grid.GridDataInstance.init(GridDataInstance.java:206) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataInstance.reInitialize(DataInstance.java:170) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GridDataInstance.reInitialize(GridDataInstance.java:181) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.control.DisplayControlImpl.setData(DisplayControlImpl.java:3223) > at ucar.unidata.idv.control.PlanViewControl.setData(PlanViewControl.java:670) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.control.DisplayControlImpl.setData(DisplayControlImpl.java:3127) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.control.DisplayControlImpl.resetData(DisplayControlImpl.java:3016) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.control.DisplayControlImpl.dataChanged(DisplayControlImpl.java:2953) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.control.DisplayControlImpl.loadDataFromViewBounds(DisplayControlImpl.java:2759) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.control.DisplayControlImpl.viewpointChanged(DisplayControlImpl.java:2727) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.control.DisplayControlImpl$1.run(DisplayControlImpl.java:2698) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1243) > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: AQU-558914 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open