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Re: 20040301: ncview problems

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  • Subject: Re: 20040301: ncview problems
  • Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 22:47:39 -0700
>To: address@hidden
>From: Kathy Fischer <address@hidden>
>Subject: ncview problems
>Organization: NCAR/CGD
>Keywords: 200403012231.i21MVjrV008588 netCDF ncview

Hi Kathy,

> I've just installed the 1.92d version of ncview,
> and on startup i'm getting the following error:
> 
> flagstaff:adai/webdata/sfcObs>ncview -debug 
> sfcObs-monthly-3hrly-1971-1996mean.nc 
> Ncview 1.92d David W. Pierce  26 Aug 2002
> http://meteora.ucsd.edu:80/~pierce/ncview_home_page.html
> Copyright (C) 1993 through 2001, David W. Pierce
> Ncview comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `ncview -w'.
> This is free software; type `ncview -c' for redistribution details.
> 
> ncopen: filename "sfcObs-monthly-3hrly-1971-1996mean.nc": Invalid dimension 
> id 
> or name
> 
> Can you point me in the right direction to solve this?

Sorry, but we need more information to diagnose the problem, if it's
not a problem with ncview.  Could you please send the output from

  ncdump -c sfcObs-monthly-3hrly-1971-1996mean.nc

run from the directory containing that file?  Thanks.

--Russ

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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden          http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/russ