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[netCDF #UHL-694460]: netCDF help

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  • Subject: [netCDF #UHL-694460]: netCDF help
  • Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:35:08 -0600
> Hi Yuan,
> Thank you very much. Now I understood what is going wrong. I have another
> quick question to you. I have a netCDF which look pretty much same
> structure with 6 variable and 3 dimensions. I can open it in IDV. However
> its time dimension looks invisible. I can not able to see any time there.
> Its  just a 2-D layer. I put my time unit like this "hours since
> 2002-04-01T00.00". I am wondering if this is the source of the problem.
> Hours all are well calculated. its ncdump heading looks like
> the attached file. I will be happy to provide a link of it if you want to
> see the file. Any help will be appreciated.
> Thanks a lot,
> Avirup
 

Avirup,
      You can use more CF compliant time units like: 

time:units = "hours since 2002-04-01 00:00 UTC"; 

The 2-D is corrected, the IDV only checks the spatial dimensions.


Yuan

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: UHL-694460
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed