<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Geeta,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">This appears to be HDF4 VDATA data, which NCL doesn't currently support. We haven't received many requests for this, so it has been very low on our list of things to add support for. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I added your email to the ticket we have on this (NCL-1195) in case this becomes something we need to support.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Meanwhile, have you checked around to see if this data is available in NetCDF format instead? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">--Mary</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 5:59 PM, Geeta Geeta <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geetag54@yahoo.com" target="_blank">geetag54@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_39952"><span>dear ncl users. </span></div><div id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_39952" dir="ltr"><span>I have lighening data (orbital) which I wish to plot. the image downloaded from web is attached. </span></div><div id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_39952" dir="ltr"><span id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_46438">but when I doenload the datafile, from the following link. </span></div><div id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_39952" dir="ltr"><a href="https://lightning.nsstc.nasa.gov/lisib/lis1orbit.exe?which=qc&year=2011&day=104&orbit=76394" target="_blank">https://lightning.nsstc.nasa.<wbr>gov/lisib/lis1orbit.exe?which=<wbr>qc&year=2011&day=104&orbit=<wbr>76394</a> </div><div id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_39952" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_40014">aditya@agniilap:~/geeta/ncl/<wbr>MYLIS$ ../bin/ncl trmm.lis.ncl</div><div id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_40015"> Copyright (C) 1995-2014 - All Rights Reserved</div><div id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_40016"> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research</div><div id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_40017"> NCAR Command Language Version 6.2.1</div><div id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_40018"> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.</div><div id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_40019"> See <a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/" target="_blank">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/</a> for more details.</div><div id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_40020"><br id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_40021"></div><div id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_40022">Variable: hdf4_file</div><div id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_40023">Type: file</div><div id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_40024">File path:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap" id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_40025"> </span>./test.HDF</div><div id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_40026">Number of global attributes:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap" id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_40027"> </span> 0</div><div id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_40028">Number of dimensions:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap" id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_40029"> </span> 0</div><div id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_40030">Number of variables:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap" id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_40031"> </span> 0</div><div id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_40032">warning:getfilevarnames: test contains no variables readable by NCL</div><div id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_39952"></div><div id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_40033">(0)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap" id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_40034"> </span>missing</div><div dir="ltr" id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_40035">I get this message. </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_40035"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_40035">pls help me how to check the data file. </div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div></div><div id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_44850"> </div><div class="m_7064676648046139289signature" id="m_7064676648046139289yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493742448349_40045">Geeta.</div></font></span></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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