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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Jianfu,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">You may try switch from:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">g = f=&gt;Global_Projection&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">to see if it makes a difference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Also, NCL has released 6.3.0, you may want to update your NCL,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">As there are quite few bug fixed regarding read HDF5 files.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:&quot;Lucida Handwriting&quot;;color:#1F497D">Wei Huang</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;Lucida Handwriting&quot;;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"> Pan, Jianfu (GSFC-423.0)[COLUMBUS TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES INC] [mailto:jianfu.pan@nasa.gov]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 14, 2015 2:22 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Wei Huang; ncl-talk@ucar.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: ncl core dump when accessing hdf5 group<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">Thanks Wei for your quick response.&nbsp; I was able to dump or print(f).&nbsp; It has too much text to put it here, including metadata in ISO
 XML format.&nbsp; The following is part of the printout.&nbsp; Thanks.&nbsp; -Jianfu<br>
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ncl_filedump outputs:<br>
Copyright (C) 1995-2014 - All Rights Reserved<br>
&nbsp;University Corporation for Atmospheric Research<br>
&nbsp;NCAR Command Language Version 6.2.1<br>
&nbsp;The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.<br>
&nbsp;See <a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/</a> for more details.<br>
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Variable: f<br>
Type: file<br>
filename:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; SMAP_L1C_TB_00869_D_20150331T235250_R11340_001<br>
path:&nbsp;&nbsp; /SMAP/SPL1CTB/SMAP_L1C_TB_00869_D_20150331T235250_R11340_001.h5<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; file global attributes:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; dimensions:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DIM_000 = 8286<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DIM_001 = 8162<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DIM_002 = 16521<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; variables:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; group &lt;/Global_Projection&gt;<br>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; float cell_antenna_scan_angle_aft ( DIM_002 )<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; _FillValue :&nbsp;&nbsp; -9999<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; coordinates :&nbsp; /Global_Projection/cell_lat /Global_Projection/cell_lon<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; long_name :&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Representative scan angle of the SMAP antenna on the spacecraft for all aft looking footprints within the cell.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; units :&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; degreesntative scan angle of the SMAP antenna on the spacecraft for all aft looking footprints within the cell.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; valid_max :&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 359.999<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; valid_min :&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0<br>
......<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ushort cell_tb_qual_flag_3_aft ( DIM_002 )<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; _FillValue :&nbsp;&nbsp; 65534<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; coordinates :&nbsp; /Global_Projection/cell_lat /Global_Projection/cell_lonrature for all forward looking footprints that fall within the grid cell.thin the grid cell.l.the grid cell.vector for forward looking footprints within the cell.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; flag_masks :&nbsp;&nbsp; 1s, 2s, 4s, 8s, 16s, 32s, 64s, 128s, 256s, 512s, 1024s, 4096s, 8192s, 16384sd looking footprints that fall within the grid cell.thin the grid cell.l.the grid cell.vector for forward looking footprints within the cell.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; flag_meanings :&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Aft_looking_3rd_Stokes_quality_flag Aft_looking_3rd_Stokes_range_flag Aft_looking_3rd_Stokes_RFI_clean_flag Aft_looking_3rd_Stokes_RFI_repair_flag Aft_looking_3rd_Stokes_NEDT_flag Aft_looking_3rd_Stokes_direct_sun_correction
 Aft_looking_3rd_Stokes_reflected_sun_correction Aft_looking_3rd_Stokes_reflected_moon_correction Aft_looking_3rd_Stokes_direct_galaxy_correction Aft_looking_3rd_Stokes_reflected_galaxy_correction Aft_looking_3rd_Stokes_correction_for_atmospheric_conditions
 Aft_looking_3rd_Stokes_null_value_bit Aft_looking_3rd_Stokes_parameter_half_orbit_location Aft_looking_3rd_Stokes_RFI_check<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; long_name :&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bit flags that represent the quality of the aft looking third stokes parameters within each grid cell._flag Aft_looking_3rd_Stokes_RFI_repair_flag Aft_looking_3rd_Stokes_NEDT_flag Aft_looking_3rd_Stokes_direct_sun_correction Aft_looking_3rd_Stokes_reflected_sun_correction
 Aft_looking_3rd_Stokes_reflected_moon_correction Aft_looking_3rd_Stokes_direct_galaxy_correction Aft_looking_3rd_Stokes_reflected_galaxy_correction Aft_looking_3rd_Stokes_correction_for_atmospheric_conditions Aft_looking_3rd_Stokes_null_value_bit Aft_looking_3rd_Stokes_parameter_half_orbit_location
 Aft_looking_3rd_Stokes_RFI_check<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black"> Wei Huang [whuang@univ-wea.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 14, 2015 2:06 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Pan, Jianfu (GSFC-423.0)[COLUMBUS TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES INC]; <a href="mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu">
ncl-talk@ucar.edu</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: ncl core dump when accessing hdf5 group</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Jianfu,</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">&nbsp;</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Do a &#8220;ncl_filedump your-filename&#8221;,</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Or a &#8220;print(f)&#8221; after opened the file,</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Will help you and the people who is willing to help.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:&quot;Lucida Handwriting&quot;;color:#1F497D">Wei Huang</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">
<a href="mailto:ncl-talk-bounces@ucar.edu">ncl-talk-bounces@ucar.edu</a> [<a href="mailto:ncl-talk-bounces@ucar.edu">mailto:ncl-talk-bounces@ucar.edu</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Pan, Jianfu (GSFC-423.0)[COLUMBUS TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES INC]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 14, 2015 2:02 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu">ncl-talk@ucar.edu</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [ncl-talk] ncl core dump when accessing hdf5 group</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">When I tried to access an h5 group in ncl, I got a core dump.&nbsp; Does anyone know if there is a limit on the amount of data or number of variables an h5 group can
 have?&nbsp; Here is the snippet:<br>
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f = addfile(&quot;smap_L1C_file.h5&quot;, &quot;r&quot;)<br>
g = f=&gt;Global_Projection&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ; Core dump happens here<br>
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I'm using ncl version 6.2.1.&nbsp; Thank you.<br>
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Jianfu</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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