<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi All-<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am working on reading some LIDAR data and running into some issues with how NCL is handling some of the commands.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The first is with regards to strings. I try to read a string variable and it spits out an HDF error. I know the variable is a single string that is supposed to be read in; this was checked with hdfview. Google and the HDF forums were of no help.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Andale Mono'; color: rgb(41, 249, 20); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.8.14) thread 0:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Andale Mono'; color: rgb(41, 249, 20); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> #000: H5Shyper.c line 6595 in H5Sselect_hyperslab(): hyperslab doesn't support H5S_SCALAR space</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Andale Mono'; color: rgb(41, 249, 20); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> major: Invalid arguments to routine</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Andale Mono'; color: rgb(41, 249, 20); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> minor: Inappropriate type</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Andale Mono'; color: rgb(41, 249, 20); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.8.14) thread 0:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Andale Mono'; color: rgb(41, 249, 20); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> #000: H5Shyper.c line 6595 in H5Sselect_hyperslab(): hyperslab doesn't support H5S_SCALAR space</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Andale Mono'; color: rgb(41, 249, 20); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> major: Invalid arguments to routine</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Andale Mono'; color: rgb(41, 249, 20); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> minor: Inappropriate type</span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">Why is NCL trying to read a string as a scalar? Any ideas on whether this is a library issue or an NCL coding issue? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My second question is with respect to how NCL is reading in float variables. I am reading in a variable that I wouldn’t expect NCL to struggle with but it is. The variable being read should be about 57K x 533 point. It reads in with no errors returned but checking the dimensions tells me that NCL has made it a ~57k x ~57k variable. I thought maybe NCL was assuming a lat x lon grid; checking the data in the returned array gives me all 0s but printing the lats and lons I know there is data. Any ideas on what is going on? Does the square array have to do with the hyperslab routines?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am running NCL 6.3.0 on OS X 10.11.5.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I uploaded to the ftp the file for the tests: <span style="color: rgb(41, 249, 20); font-family: 'Andale Mono'; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">CATS-ISS_L1B_D-M7.2-V2-07.2015-08-26T16-27-44T17-14-51UTC.hdf5</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Attached are the tests that produce the string error and the variable issue.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for any insight,</div><div class="">-Alex</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></div></body></html>