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    <p>Thank you everyone that helped me on this.  I wanted to mention
      that I was able to solve my problem using a script
      wrfout_to_cf.ncl that is available at <br>
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    <p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://foehn.colorado.edu/wrfout_to_cf/">http://foehn.colorado.edu/wrfout_to_cf/</a></p>
    <p>The script, written by Mark Seefeldt, is well-documented and is
      easy to configure and run.</p>
    <p>Thanks,</p>
    <p>Jim Means<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/17/2018 12:29 PM, Jim Means
      wrote:<br>
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      <p>I'm trying to do something which I think should be relatively
        simple, but I think my lack of understanding of gridded files is
        causing me problems.</p>
      <p>I'd like to take the NetCDF output file from a WRF run and just
        pull out the variables I need, so that I have a smaller version
        of the file that I can work with. I'm giving it to somebody to
        load into IDV and they need to be able to aggregate times. I
        would like to be able to plot horizontal and vertical velocity
        at different levels in the model, and keep the time information
        so that I can see the evolution. My program runs, but IDV tells
        me that there is "No gridded data" found in my output file.  <br>
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      <p>My question is what do I need to do to make this a gridded data
        file?</p>
      <p>Here is some example code, I used unstagger because I thought
        that might be my problem, but unstaggering didn't seem to help.</p>
      <p>Thanks,</p>
      <p>Jim</p>
      <p><br>
      </p>
      <p>begin<br>
        ;<br>
        <br>
        ;***************************************************<br>
        ; Open full NetCDF file and get variable names<br>
        ;***************************************************<br>
        <br>
         nc_in = addfile("wrfout_d02_2018-07-22_06:00:00.nc","r")<br>
        <br>
        <br>
        ;***************************************************<br>
        ; Open output netcdf file. Remove first just in case.<br>
        ;***************************************************<br>
           nc_out_fname = "testout.nc"<br>
           system("rm -f " + nc_out_fname) ; remove any pre-existing
        file <br>
           ncdf_out = addfile(nc_out_fname,"c")   <br>
        <br>
        <br>
        ;***************************************************<br>
        ; Specify desired  variables <br>
        ;***************************************************<br>
        <br>
        lat = nc_in->XLAT<br>
        lon = nc_in->XLONG<br>
        znu = nc_in->ZNU<br>
        u = nc_in->U<br>
        v = nc_in->V<br>
        w = nc_in->W<br>
         ua = wrf_user_unstagger(u,u@stagger)<br>
         va = wrf_user_unstagger(v,v@stagger)<br>
         wa = wrf_user_unstagger(w,w@stagger)<br>
        <br>
        xtime = nc_in->XTIME<br>
        <br>
        <br>
        ncdf_out->LAT = lat<br>
        ncdf_out->LON = lon<br>
        ncdf_out->ZNU = znu<br>
        ncdf_out->U = ua<br>
        ncdf_out->V=va<br>
        ncdf_out->W=wa<br>
        <br>
        ncdf_out->XTIME = xtime<br>
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        end<br>
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