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980201: Display netCDF data in PC with ncdump

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  • Subject: 980201: Display netCDF data in PC with ncdump
  • Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 16:25:06 -0700
>From: Yu Zhang <address@hidden>
>Organization: .
>Keywords: 199802020358.UAA26043

Yy,

>I want to get some daily series data (Jan 1, 1997 to Dec.31, 1997
>somewhere in Iowa) of solar downward radiation. I downloaded the the
>netCDF format file (dswrf~1.nc) and ncdump.exe. but when I run the
>following command in my PC
>
>ncdump -h dswrf~1.nc
>
>I got
>
>ncopen: NC-xtypelen: Unknown type 13.
>
>Can you tell me how I can get the data readable i my PC?
>Thank you very much.

It is possible that you did not FTP the data file in binary mode.  The
error indication above looks like the file is somehow garbled.

If you reFTP the file in binary mode and continue to have the problem,
could you make the file available to us so we can take a look?

Thanks in advance.

>Yu Zhang
>(In the Institute for the Study of Earth, Ocean and Space,
> Univ. of New Hampshire)

Tom Yoksas