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Sonja, Can you upload your data here and let us know when it is uploaded? http://motherlode.ucar.edu/repository/alias/idvupload Best, Unidata IDV Support > Hello, > > I am trying to collaborate with a colleague who uses IDV to visualize her > modeling results. I have my own data that I would like to overlay on hers > using IDV. I use IDL, and I am trying to export my data into netCDF format. > I know how to do this, but I don't know what IDV is expecting of me. Let me > describe my data: > > At simplest I have three arrays: time, latitude and longitude. > > time[i] = time of event > latitude[i] = latitude of event > longitude[i] = longitude of event > > I wrote a program in IDL to make a netcdf file of three variables: time, > latitude, and longitude. I know I did this correctly because I reread the > file back in to IDL and was able to extract my arrays. > > But, IDV doesn't know what to do with my data. It complains that I don't > have any "gridded" data in my file. So, I took my data in IDL and made a > 200x200 element array of the density of my events with respect to lat and > lon. So each element of the array is a pixel on a map, and the value > represents how many events were in that pixel. I saved that 200x200 array in > a netcdf file, but alas, IDV doesn't get it. > > So, I realize I don't know what IDV is expecting here with my data, but I > would like to format my data so that it understands it and I could use IDV to > plot it on a map. > > Can you help with this? > > Thank you, > > Sonja Behnke > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: SUF-224604 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open