Re: Cannot access WRF/Chem 3.5 files through NCL

From: Wei Huang <huangwei_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Mon Feb 10 2014 - 08:51:51 MST

It is likely that the WRF-chem uses NetCDF4 features for its output.
You can check this by "ncdump -k your-wrf-chem file" to see if it is netCDF-4.
In that sense, you need to re-compile your ncview with NetCDF
being hdf5-eabled.

Wei

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National Center for Atmospheric Research
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On Feb 10, 2014, at 8:06 AM, Dennis Shea <shea@ucar.edu> wrote:

> [1] What version of NCL are you using?
>
> %> ncl -V
>
> [2] Are the WRF/Chem 3.5 files netCDF-4 rather than
> the classic netCDF-3? If you have an older version of NCL,
> it will not read netCDF-4. You would need the 6.1.2 version of NCL.
>
> [3] You can send a sample file to:
>
> ftp ftp.cgd.ucar.edu
> anonymous
> email
> cd incoming
> put ....
> quit
>
> We can not look at the incoming ftp directory, so send the name
> of the file to ncl-talk@ucar.edu
>
> Regards
>
>
>
>
>
> On 2/10/14, 2:39 AM, Tabish Ansari wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I had been using NCL for reading and plotting WRF/Chem 3.4.1 files.
>> However, I recently switched to WRF/Chem 3.5 and successfully produced the
>> same files using the same namelist options. While I could see using tools
>> like ncview that the files are correct, NCL cannot read them.
>>
>> I am getting segmentation fault in NCL. While the same files in WRF/Chem
>> 3.4.1 are nicely being accessed by the same NCL.
>>
>> Is this a bug?
>>
>>
>>
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