<div dir="ltr">Cynthia,<div>It seems that the files you send us are not CF compliant.</div><div>The problem is that the Time dimension does not have a unit.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Here are some quotes from the CF Conventions document:</div><div><div>- The use of coordinate variables is required for all dimensions that correspond to one dimensional space or time coordinates.<br></div></div><div>- Variables representing time must always explicitly include the units attribute; there is no default value</div><div><br></div><div>So, to fix one of your files, I did:</div><div><br></div><div>1. ncdump ARAD4_test2.ncdf > ARAD4_test2_CF.txt<br></div><div><br></div><div>2. I added a new variable Time with the unit specified to the txt file.</div><div><div><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>float Time(Time) ;</div><div><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Time:units = "minutes since 2016-07-29 12:00:00" ;</div></div><div><br></div><div>3.</div><div>I generated a new nc file:</div><div>ncgen ARAD4_test2_CF.txt -o ARAD4_test2_CF.nc</div><div><br></div><div>This new file is read correctly by ParaView.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Dan</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Aashish Chaudhary <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aashish.chaudhary@kitware.com" target="_blank">aashish.chaudhary@kitware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Cynthia, <div><br></div><div>Is there any chance that you can send me a sample dataset? </div><div><br></div><div>- Aashish</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 6:15 PM Hart, Cynthia Joyce - (cyndyb) <<a href="mailto:cyndyb@email.arizona.edu" target="_blank">cyndyb@email.arizona.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Folks – <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<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.
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<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: <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">netcdf ARAD4_test2 {<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">dimensions:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Time = UNLIMITED ; // (1 currently)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> south_north = 393 ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> west_east = 639 ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> bottom_top = 37 ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">variables:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> float REFD_MAX(Time, south_north, west_east) ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <wbr> REFD_MAX:FieldType = 104 ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <wbr> REFD_MAX:MemoryOrder = "XY " ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <wbr> REFD_MAX:description = "MAX DERIVED RADAR REFL" ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <wbr> REFD_MAX:units = "dbZ" ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <wbr> REFD_MAX:stagger = "" ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <wbr> REFD_MAX:coordinates = "XLONG XLAT XTIME" ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> float REFL_10CM(Time, bottom_top, south_north, west_east) ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <wbr> REFL_10CM:FieldType = 104 ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <wbr> REFL_10CM:MemoryOrder = "XYZ" ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <wbr> REFL_10CM:description = "Radar reflectivity (lamda = 10 cm)" ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <wbr> REFL_10CM:units = "dBZ" ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <wbr> REFL_10CM:stagger = "" ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <wbr> REFL_10CM:coordinates = "XLONG XLAT XTIME" ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> float XLAT(Time, south_north, west_east) ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <wbr> XLAT:FieldType = 104 ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <wbr> XLAT:MemoryOrder = "XY " ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <wbr> XLAT:description = "LATITUDE, SOUTH IS NEGATIVE" ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <wbr> XLAT:units = "degree_north" ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <wbr> XLAT:stagger = "" ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <wbr> XLAT:coordinates = "XLONG XLAT" ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> float XLONG(Time, south_north, west_east) ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <wbr> XLONG:FieldType = 104 ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <wbr> XLONG:MemoryOrder = "XY " ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <wbr> XLONG:description = "LONGITUDE, WEST IS NEGATIVE" ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <wbr> XLONG:units = "degree_east" ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <wbr> XLONG:stagger = "" ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <wbr> XLONG:coordinates = "XLONG XLAT" ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> float XTIME(Time) ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <wbr> XTIME:FieldType = 104 ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <wbr> XTIME:MemoryOrder = "0 " ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <wbr> XTIME:description = "minutes since 2016-07-29 12:00:00" ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <wbr> XTIME:units = "minutes since 2016-07-29 12:00:00" ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <wbr> XTIME:stagger = "" ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks in advance. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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