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[IDV #ZMF-425504]: Unable to load .nc file

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  • Subject: [IDV #ZMF-425504]: Unable to load .nc file
  • Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 17:33:13 -0600
Alan,

The problem is the data provider made no effort to make this file CF compliant.

http://cfconventions.org/

Just glancing at it, I found the following problems:

- the latitudes and longitudes do not have CF units for degrees
- there are no coordinate variables (coordinate variables contain the 
  coordinate values for a dimension)

Not to mention, there is other weird stuff, e.g.,

"Longitude in decimal degrees (20-380 degree system)"

It is possible you may be able to fix it with a fair bit of NCML, though
that seems a (very) long shot.

It actually would not be hard to convert these data into CF compliant data, if
you don't mind writing a bit of (Python, for example) code.

Best,

Unidata IDV Support


> Full Name: Alan Bol
> Email Address: address@hidden
> Organization: COMET
> Package Version: 5.2 build date:2015-08-26 18:19 UTC
> Operating System: Windows 7
> Hardware: Java: home: C:\Program Files\IDV_5.2\jre version: 1.8.0_45 
> j3d:1.6.0-pre9-daily-experimental daily
> Description of problem: Hi guys,
> Could you let me know if this file can be loaded and plotted? I'm getting the 
>  error "No gridded data found."
> 
> Here's a url to the data:
> http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/OAS/prd/accession/download/139360
> Aragonite saturation state gridded to 1x1 degree latitude and longitude at 
> depth levels...
> 
> thanks,
> Alan
> 
> 
> 


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: ZMF-425504
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed