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Ashwinee & Stephie, I took a look at the file mauritius_STS.1990060100.nc It appears the mercator projection is not completely defined. In particular, the Mercator projection must have the netCDF attribute "standard_parallel" or "scale_factor_at_projection_origin". Where are these data coming from? What model? Best Wishes, Unidata IDV Support > Bonjour Ashwinee, > > Please upload your data to > http://motherlode.ucar.edu/repository/alias/idvupload > and let us know when it is there. > > Cordialement, > > Unidata IDV Support > > PS When I was a kid I vacationed in nearby Île de la Réunion. It is a > beautiful > part of the world. I hope to visit L'ile Maurice one day. > > > > Full Name: Ashwinee Dheerees > > Email Address: address@hidden > > Organization: university of mauritius > > Package Version: 5.0u1 build date:2014-08-08 16:54 UTC > > Operating System: Windows 7 > > Hardware: Java: home: C:\Users\labuser\Desktop\IDV_5.0u1\jre version: > > 1.7.0_51 j3d:1.6.0-pre9-daily-experimental daily > > Description of problem: There was an error loading the data: > > Error creating data source:file.grid with: > > C:\Users\labuser\Desktop\regcmdata\output\mauritius_SRF.1990060100.nc > > Grid data source failed making data set: > > C:\Users\labuser\Desktop\regcmdata\output\mauritius_SRF.1990060100.nc > > Mercator projection must have attribute standard_parallel or > > scale_factor_at_projection_origin > > > > ****************** > > Stack trace: > > java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Mercator projection must have attribute > > standard_parallel or scale_factor_at_projection_origin > > at > > ucar.nc2.dataset.transform.Mercator.makeCoordinateTransform(Mercator.java:63) > > at > > ucar.nc2.dataset.CoordTransBuilder.makeCoordinateTransform(CoordTransBuilder.java:217) > > at > > ucar.nc2.dataset.CoordSysBuilder.makeCoordinateTransforms(CoordSysBuilder.java:930) > > at > > ucar.nc2.dataset.CoordSysBuilder.buildCoordinateSystems(CoordSysBuilder.java:516) > > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.enhance(NetcdfDataset.java:469) > > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.<init>(NetcdfDataset.java:1446) > > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.openDataset(NetcdfDataset.java:427) > > 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.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:1215) > > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1243) > > > > > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: LLH-849248 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Closed