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> Yan, > > thank you for your answer. This seems to be fixed quite soon in > Pytroll/Satpy I heard from the developers. > So I hope I can use the IDV soon again. > > Regards, > > Christian You can access the added server to create a display of MSG data. The NOAA server only holds a couple of days data, you should be able to find an archived server in the EUMETSAT. Yuan > > > Am 01.04.20 um 22:09 schrieb Unidata IDV Support: > >> Full Name: Christian Peters > >> Email Address: address@hidden > >> Organization: private > >> Package Version: 5.7 build date:2020-02-10 17:05 UTC > >> Operating System: Linux > >> Hardware: Java: home: /home/cpeters/IDV_5.7/jre version: 1.8.0_51 > >> j3d:1.6.0-pre12-daily-experimental daily > >> Description of problem: There was an error loading the data: > >> Error creating data source:file.grid with: > >> /home/cpeters/Downloads/MSG-4-euro-raw(1).nc > >> Grid data source failed making data set: > >> /home/cpeters/Downloads/MSG-4-euro-raw(1).nc > >> Must specify sweep_angle_axis or fixed_angle_axis > >> > > Hi Christian, > > > > This is not the CF compliant netCDF file, we don't support it at this > > moment. You may be able to use ncml > > to do some modification and make it workable in the IDV. > > > > Yuan > >> ****************** > >> Stack trace: > >> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Must specify sweep_angle_axis or > >> fixed_angle_axis > >> at > >> ucar.nc2.dataset.transform.Geostationary.makeCoordinateTransform(Geostationary.java:166) > >> at > >> ucar.nc2.dataset.CoordTransBuilder.makeCoordinateTransform(CoordTransBuilder.java:218) > >> at > >> ucar.nc2.dataset.CoordSysBuilder.makeCoordinateTransforms(CoordSysBuilder.java:985) > >> at > >> ucar.nc2.dataset.CoordSysBuilder.buildCoordinateSystems(CoordSysBuilder.java:577) > >> at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.enhance(NetcdfDataset.java:475) > >> at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.<init>(NetcdfDataset.java:1462) > >> at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.openDataset(NetcdfDataset.java:433) > >> at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.acquireDataset(NetcdfDataset.java:528) > >> 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:1226) > >> at > >> ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.getDataset(GeoGridDataSource.java:1248) > >> at > >> ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.initAfterCreation(GeoGridDataSource.java:510) > >> at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:1612) > >> at > >> ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.createDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1978) > >> at > >> ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1895) > >> at > >> ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1829) > >> at > >> ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1802) > >> at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.IdvChooser.makeDataSource(IdvChooser.java:943) > >> at > >> ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.selectFilesInner(FileChooser.java:659) > >> at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.selectFiles(FileChooser.java:528) > >> at > >> ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.doLoadInThread(FileChooser.java:550) > >> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > >> at > >> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) > >> at > >> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) > >> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497) > >> at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$2.run(Misc.java:1215) > >> at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1243) > >> > >> > >> > > > > Ticket Details > > =================== > > Ticket ID: WFR-755722 > > Department: Support IDV > > Priority: Normal > > Status: Closed > > =================== > > NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the > > Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through > > the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in > > this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us. > > > > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: WFR-755722 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.