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Hyun-Min, You are on the right track, and kudos for describing the data with CF conventions in mind, but unfortunately, things are little complicated here. First off, a good model or exemplar for describing these data can be found here: http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/data/formats/netcdf/v1.1/ and specifically http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/testdata/netCDFTemplateExamples/timeSeries/BodegaMarineLabBuoyCombined.cdl I think your CDL file strongly resembles this CDL example already, but may be missing some important global attributes related to CF. At a minimum, I believe I would add: :featureType = "timeSeries" ; :Conventions = "CF-1.6" ; and perhaps :Metadata_Conventions = "Unidata Dataset Discovery v1.0" ; :nodc_template_version = "NODC_NetCDF_TimeSeries_Orthogonal_Template_v1.0" ; Also ensure that your CDL file is following the conventions described in BodegaMarineLabBuoyCombined.cdl. I believe that it is for the most part, but please double-check (I just noticed that the dimensions and dimensions associated w/ the variables needs to be better adhered to). On the IDV side what is your intention for the display? Unfortunately, once we have fixed the problems with the data, I am not entirely sure the IDV will render your data in the manner you want without some work on the IDV. Best, Unidata IDV Support > Full Name: Hyun-Min Shin > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: California Department of Water Resources > Package Version: 5.1u2 > Operating System: Windows 7 > Hardware: Inter Xeon with 6GB memory > Description of problem: I want to bring a time-series data into IDV. Attached > are the CDL file and netCDF file (using ncgen) containing hourly temperature > data for 546 stations in California for 10 hour-span. I failed to bring the > data into IDV. Could you let me know if IDV can display time-series data for > multiple stations (synoptic) from a local file? And if yes and my file has > errors, what could be fix of the problems. Any response would be appreciated > much. > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: AJH-348949 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Closed