<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span></span></div><div></div><div> Hi . </div><div>I have to plot the data in HDF format using NCL. I started using NCL about a week back and I am in learning stage. </div><div><br></div><div>I happen to see the ready script available <a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/Scripts/hdf4sds_6.ncl">https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/Scripts/hdf4sds_6.ncl</a> which reads HDF data. </div><div><br></div><div>On my system I downloaded this script and tried to run this but when I run this, following message comes. </div><div>bash-3.2$ ncl hdf4sds_6.ncl<br> Copyright (C) 1995-2007 - All Rights Reserved<br> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research<br> NCAR Command Language Version 5.0.0<br> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.<br> See <a
href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/</a> for more details.<br>fatal:_NclCreateFile: Requested file does not exist as (./2A12.20100702.71931.6.HDF) or as (./2A12.20100702.71931.6), can't add file<br>fatal:Either file (f) isn't defined or variable (geolocation) is not a variable in the file<br>fatal:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 31 in file hdf4sds_6.ncl<br> <br>bash-3.2$ ls -l *HDF*<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 model staff 55092053 Sep 01 15:54 2A12.20100702.71931.7.HDF<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 model staff 55092079 Aug 12 11:13 2A12.20130523.88390.7.HDF<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 model staff 55092085 Aug 12 15:27 2A12.20140602.94247.7.HDF<br>bash-3.2$ ls -l *hdf*ncl*<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 model
staff 6725 Sep 01 17:01 hdf4sds_6.ncl<br>bash-3.2$<br></div><div><br></div><div>The files exist in my directory. </div><div>Can somebody tell me what's mistake???</div><div>Geeta. </div></div></body></html>