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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Folks – <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I am struggling with using the netCDF reader, with a bunch of timeseries of WRF data output (weather prediction modeling). I am a visualizer, NOT a meteorologist, and so, my full understanding of the model’s
output is shaky at best. The researcher I am trying to assist is currently on vacation, and I’m trying to animate the output of his WRF model.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">So! I have been viewing some of the output using the built in reader in Paraview (the ‘generic and cf’ reader) and it works for some variables, not for others. I am using NCO tools to extract some of the
variables of interest into their own CDF file, to try and isolate the problem Paraview has, reading some variables.. but that doesn’t help. I am particularly trying to read a variable for radar data, “REFL_10CM”. Here is the relevant bit of the file header
from ncdump, below: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">netcdf ARAD4_test2 {<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">dimensions:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Time = UNLIMITED ; // (1 currently)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> south_north = 393 ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> west_east = 639 ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> bottom_top = 37 ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">variables:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> float REFD_MAX(Time, south_north, west_east) ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> REFD_MAX:FieldType = 104 ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> REFD_MAX:MemoryOrder = "XY " ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> REFD_MAX:description = "MAX DERIVED RADAR REFL" ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> REFD_MAX:units = "dbZ" ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> REFD_MAX:stagger = "" ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> REFD_MAX:coordinates = "XLONG XLAT XTIME" ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> float REFL_10CM(Time, bottom_top, south_north, west_east) ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> REFL_10CM:FieldType = 104 ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> REFL_10CM:MemoryOrder = "XYZ" ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> REFL_10CM:description = "Radar reflectivity (lamda = 10 cm)" ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> REFL_10CM:units = "dBZ" ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> REFL_10CM:stagger = "" ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> REFL_10CM:coordinates = "XLONG XLAT XTIME" ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> float XLAT(Time, south_north, west_east) ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> XLAT:FieldType = 104 ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> XLAT:MemoryOrder = "XY " ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> XLAT:description = "LATITUDE, SOUTH IS NEGATIVE" ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> XLAT:units = "degree_north" ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> XLAT:stagger = "" ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> XLAT:coordinates = "XLONG XLAT" ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> float XLONG(Time, south_north, west_east) ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> XLONG:FieldType = 104 ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> XLONG:MemoryOrder = "XY " ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> XLONG:description = "LONGITUDE, WEST IS NEGATIVE" ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> XLONG:units = "degree_east" ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> XLONG:stagger = "" ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> XLONG:coordinates = "XLONG XLAT" ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> float XTIME(Time) ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> XTIME:FieldType = 104 ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> XTIME:MemoryOrder = "0 " ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> XTIME:description = "minutes since 2016-07-29 12:00:00" ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> XTIME:units = "minutes since 2016-07-29 12:00:00" ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> XTIME:stagger = "" ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Paraview complains that it cannot read a variable with more than three dimensions without time. But there appears to ‘be’ time (I’m very unclear what “UNLIMITED” time , as seen in the header, refers to in
this context). Is there any way I can work around this? Most frustrating. I can actually read this variable into QGIS, but I’d rather use the strengths of Paraview to visualize this data.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks in advance. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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