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> Full Name: Paul > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: Weathersim > Package Version: 5.0 build date:2014-04-14 07:05 UTC > Operating System: Mac OS X > Hardware: Java: home: /Applications/IDV_5.0/jre.bundle/Contents/Home version: > 1.7.0_51 j3d:1.6.0-pre9-daily-experimental daily > Description of problem: > > This is similar to a recent IDV WRF aggregation error I experienced, > for which I received the following explanation from IDV Support: "These > wrfout files are in different domain and cann't be aggregated together." > > However, in this case, it is not an aggregation as it is just one WRF > output file for which the error occurred. All the other WRF output > files for the same simulation and domain loaded correctly in IDV. > Any ideas as to why this one is not loading? > > There was an error loading the data: > > Error creating data source:aggregated.wrfnetcdf.grid with: > /Users/wg/Meteo/WRF/domains/d1_35S138.5E10km_d2_35S138.5E3.3km_d3_35S138.5E1.1km/wrfout/d01_8.894_d02_2.965_d03_0.988/wrfout_d03_2011-01-01_22:20:00 > Grid data source failed making data set: > /Users/wg/Meteo/WRF/domains/d1_35S138.5E10km_d2_35S138.5E3.3km_d3_35S138.5E1.1km/wrfout/d01_8.894_d02_2.965_d03_0.988/wrfout_d03_2011-01-01_22:20:00 > DataObject doesnt start with OHDR You can try to load this individual file to see if it is working and do not be fool by the file name. Yuan > > ****************** > Stack trace: > java.lang.IllegalStateException: DataObject doesnt start with OHDR > at ucar.nc2.iosp.hdf5.H5header$DataObject.<init>(H5header.java:2284) > at ucar.nc2.iosp.hdf5.H5header$DataObject.<init>(H5header.java:2180) > at ucar.nc2.iosp.hdf5.H5header.getDataObject(H5header.java:2027) > at ucar.nc2.iosp.hdf5.H5header.access$600(H5header.java:70) > at ucar.nc2.iosp.hdf5.H5header$DataObjectFacade.<init>(H5header.java:2073) > at ucar.nc2.iosp.hdf5.H5header.readSuperBlock2(H5header.java:353) > at ucar.nc2.iosp.hdf5.H5header.read(H5header.java:206) > at ucar.nc2.iosp.hdf5.H5iosp.open(H5iosp.java:128) > at ucar.nc2.NetcdfFile.<init>(NetcdfFile.java:1521) > at ucar.nc2.NetcdfFile.open(NetcdfFile.java:813) > at ucar.nc2.NetcdfFile.open(NetcdfFile.java:422) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.openOrAcquireFile(NetcdfDataset.java:699) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.openDataset(NetcdfDataset.java:421) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.acquireDataset(NetcdfDataset.java:516) > at ucar.nc2.dt.grid.GridDataset.open(GridDataset.java:117) > at ucar.nc2.dt.grid.GridDataset.open(GridDataset.java:103) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.doMakeDataSet(GeoGridDataSource.java:1156) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.getDataset(GeoGridDataSource.java:1178) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.initAfterCreation(GeoGridDataSource.java:502) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:1602) > 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.GeneratedMethodAccessor134.invoke(Unknown Source) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$2.run(Misc.java:1215) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1243) > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: NDS-367550 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open