<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">No. <br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Apr 9, 2019, at 8:49 PM, Barry Lynn <<a href="mailto:barry.h.lynn@gmail.com">barry.h.lynn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Dennis, Rick, Alan.<div><br></div><div>Thank you for looking into this. </div><div><br></div><div>It was noted that NCL knows how to uncompress the file when reading it. Does this imply that the read takes a lot longer?</div><div><br></div><div>Barry</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 9:12 PM Dennis Shea <<a href="mailto:shea@ucar.edu">shea@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Yikes!! Rick and Alan are much quicker than me!!! Probably smarter too!! Not nearly as good-looking though!<br></div><div><br></div><div>Still, I'll add what I was writing:</div><div>============================================<br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Barry,</div><div><br></div><div>For
reading a compressed file, the user need not set any file information.
NCL detects the file type and if compression is being used. 'knows' how
to uncompress.</div><div>This holds for 6.3.0 (maybe earlier) ===> 6.5.0 <br></div><div><br></div><div>======</div><div><b>%> ncl</b><br> NCAR Command Language Version<b> 6.3.0</b><br><br>ncl 0> f = <b>addfile</b>("wrfout_d03_2018-01-05_00_00_00<b>.nc</b>","r") ; or <b>.nc4</b><br></div><div>ncl 1> print(f) ; <=== see attached<br></div><div>=========<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>%> <b>ncdump -k</b> wrfout_d03_2018-01-05_00_00_00<br>netCDF-4</div><div><br></div><div>%> <b>ncl -V</b><br></div><div>NCL 6.5.0 [ Also: NCL 6.3.0 ]<br></div><div><br></div><div><b>%> ncl_filedump</b> <a href="http://wrfout_d03_2018-01-05_00_00_00.nc" target="_blank">wrfout_d03_2018-01-05_00_00_00.nc</a> >&! out.wrfout_nc4_compressed <br></div><div><b>%> less</b> out.wrfout_nc4_compressed <br></div><div><br></div><div>See attached</div><div><br></div><div>Note:<b> Chunking Info</b>: <br></div><div><br></div><div>Variable: XLONG<br></div><div>[ 1 <Time> x 237 <south_north> x 150 <west_east> ]</div><div><br></div><div>Variable: ZNW</div><div>Chunking Info: [ 1 <Time> x 44 <bottom_top> ]</div><div><br></div><div>Variable: ZS</div><div>Chunking Info: [ 1 <Time> x 4 <soil_layers_stag> ]<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 11:50 AM Rick Brownrigg <<a href="mailto:brownrig@ucar.edu" target="_blank">brownrig@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Yes, to add to what Alan just said, I've been able to open that file just fine with a simple addfile(). However, if I say</div><div><br></div><div> f = addfile(.....)</div><div> print(f)</div><div><br></div><div>and then quit out of the pager before all the output has been written to screen, the code hands indefinitely. Very odd behavior, and I've not seen that with other files...Still looking into this one.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 11:46 AM Brammer, Alan P <<a href="mailto:abrammer@albany.edu" target="_blank">abrammer@albany.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">To read a compressed NetCDF you shouldn't need to do anything special. Just use the addfile() as normal, no need to specify the setfileoption parameters, they will only work on creating (maybe
writing) to a file. </div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">In your wrf namelist you can tell wrf to put the ".nc" suffix on the file names, so it's more obvious what file it is. Otherwise just add it as a suffix in the ncl addfile command so NCL knows
what kind of file it's dealing with. </div>
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<div class="gmail_default">ncl 0> filename = "wrfout_d03_2018-01-05_00_00_00"</div>
<div class="gmail_default">ncl 1> print(addfile(filename+".nc", "r"))</div>
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<div>Alan</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 11:28 AM Barry Lynn <<a href="mailto:barry.h.lynn@gmail.com" target="_blank">barry.h.lynn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_C3tTQj3rwnfiCM4TBUYPdD8jOwUynt8/view?usp=drive_web" style="display:inline-block;max-width:366px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap;text-decoration-line:none;padding:1px 0px;border:medium none" target="_blank"><img style="vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none;" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_10_generic_list.png"> <span dir="ltr" style="vertical-align:bottom;text-decoration:none">wrfout_d03_2018-01-05_00:00:00</span></a><img style="opacity: 0.55; float: right; display: none;" src="cid:"></div>
Please try this one. It is definitely 1 time step of output from WRF.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 8:11 PM Rick Brownrigg <<a href="mailto:brownrig@ucar.edu" target="_blank">brownrig@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi Barry,</div>
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<div>This looks like a truncated file? Its only 336K, and the name is suspect.?</div>
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<div>RB<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 10:55 AM Barry Lynn <<a href="mailto:barry.h.lynn@gmail.com" target="_blank">barry.h.lynn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">begin</span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:25px">
<span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br>
</p>
<p class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">; filename="</span><span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-s2" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(224,228,9)">wrfout</span><span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">_d03_2018-01-05_00:00:00"</span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-Apple-converted-space">
</span>filename="</span><span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-s2" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(224,228,9)">wrfout</span><span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">_compresed.one_time_step.nc.pid19740.ncks.tmp"</span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:25px">
<span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br>
</p>
<p class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">;</span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">;
<span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-Apple-converted-space">
</span>mpdatabaseversion= "Earth..4"</span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>setfileoption("nc","format","netcdf4")</span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>print("got
to here 1")</span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">setfileoption("nc","CompressionLevel",5)</span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>print("got
to here 2")</span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">a = addfile(filename,"r")</span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br>
</span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">IT DOES NOT PASS THE LINE ABOVE (ncl 6.5)</span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>print("got
to here 3")</span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>end</span></p>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 7:12 PM Barry Lynn <<a href="mailto:barry.h.lynn@gmail.com" target="_blank">barry.h.lynn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>I am working on it. It will take a bit of time, as I am missing a library.</div>
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<div>Thank you.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 7:09 PM Rick Brownrigg <<a href="mailto:brownrig@ucar.edu" target="_blank">brownrig@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi Barry,</div>
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<div>Are you able to send me that file?</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 12:40 AM Barry Lynn <<a href="mailto:barry.h.lynn@gmail.com" target="_blank">barry.h.lynn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hello:
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<div>I am at a loss trying to find an example to read a WRF file defined this way.</div>
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<p class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-m_5533721727774980873gmail-m_776524128627110736gmail-m_4336287290818709526gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-m_5533721727774980873gmail-m_776524128627110736gmail-m_4336287290818709526gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">This build of WRF will
use NETCDF4 with HDF5 compression</span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-m_5533721727774980873gmail-m_776524128627110736gmail-m_4336287290818709526gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-m_5533721727774980873gmail-m_776524128627110736gmail-m_4336287290818709526gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br>
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<p class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-m_5533721727774980873gmail-m_776524128627110736gmail-m_4336287290818709526gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-m_5533721727774980873gmail-m_776524128627110736gmail-m_4336287290818709526gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">I tried the following,
but the ncl program just hangs up after passing "here 2"</span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-m_5533721727774980873gmail-m_776524128627110736gmail-m_4336287290818709526gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-m_5533721727774980873gmail-m_776524128627110736gmail-m_4336287290818709526gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br>
</span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-m_5533721727774980873gmail-m_776524128627110736gmail-m_4336287290818709526gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-m_5533721727774980873gmail-m_776524128627110736gmail-m_4336287290818709526gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-m_5533721727774980873gmail-m_776524128627110736gmail-m_4336287290818709526gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>setfileoption("nc","format","netcdf4")</span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-m_5533721727774980873gmail-m_776524128627110736gmail-m_4336287290818709526gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-m_5533721727774980873gmail-m_776524128627110736gmail-m_4336287290818709526gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-m_5533721727774980873gmail-m_776524128627110736gmail-m_4336287290818709526gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>print("got
to here 1")</span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-m_5533721727774980873gmail-m_776524128627110736gmail-m_4336287290818709526gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-m_5533721727774980873gmail-m_776524128627110736gmail-m_4336287290818709526gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">setfileoption("nc","CompressionLevel",5)</span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-m_5533721727774980873gmail-m_776524128627110736gmail-m_4336287290818709526gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-m_5533721727774980873gmail-m_776524128627110736gmail-m_4336287290818709526gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-m_5533721727774980873gmail-m_776524128627110736gmail-m_4336287290818709526gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>print("got
to here 2")</span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-m_5533721727774980873gmail-m_776524128627110736gmail-m_4336287290818709526gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-m_5533721727774980873gmail-m_776524128627110736gmail-m_4336287290818709526gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-7528090835495681700gmail-m_-296691599689852782gmail-m_663514718097956282gmail-m_-22999696876730665gmail-m_2309772967358525382gmail-m_-1758866785512252568gmail-m_5533721727774980873gmail-m_776524128627110736gmail-m_4336287290818709526gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)">
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<span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, </span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">
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<span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, </span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">
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