<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>ncdump is not a part of ncl.  The file appears to be a NetCDF4 file, which apparently ncdump can not open. Ncl's utility "ncl_filedump" opens the file just fine. I would note however, that you are using a version of NCL that is rather old by now, and may not have full NetCDF4/HDF5 support, so I would encourage you to upgrade to the latest version 6.6.2:</div><div><br></div><div>    <a href="http://ncl.ucar.edu/Download/">http://ncl.ucar.edu/Download/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Rick  </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 8:10 AM Aluthgama Hewage <<a href="mailto:aluthgamahewage1@gmail.com">aluthgamahewage1@gmail.com</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 dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div>I am using ncl version 6.0.0 and tried to use ncdump but it doesn't work.</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">ncdump -h <a href="http://precip.mon.mean.nc" target="_blank">precip.mon.mean.nc</a></div><div dir="ltr">ncdump: <a href="http://precip.mon.mean.nc" target="_blank">precip.mon.mean.nc</a>: NetCDF: Unknown file format<br><br><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sun, 9 Jun 2019 at 19:15, 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;padding-left:1ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div> NCL can certainly get the job done for you.  But I agree with Soma's comments -- you'll need to invest some effort. Check out the NCL User's guide:</div><div><br></div><div>    <a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Manuals/NCL_User_Guide/" target="_blank">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Manuals/NCL_User_Guide/</a></div><div><br></div><div>and the NCL examples pages:</div><div><br></div><div>    <a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/" target="_blank">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/</a></div><div><br></div><div>and in particular, this function:</div><div><br></div><div>    <a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/addfile.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/addfile.shtml</a></div><div><br></div><div>Rick<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 6:00 AM Soma Roy <<a href="mailto:somaroy892@gmail.com" target="_blank">somaroy892@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="auto">Please go through the basics of programming that required for data processing..<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Several examples are there in ncl example pages..you just need to put an effort.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheers,</div><div dir="auto">Soma </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sun, Jun 9, 2019, 16:45 Aluthgama Hewage <<a href="mailto:aluthgamahewage1@gmail.com" target="_blank">aluthgamahewage1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello All,</div><div>I downloaded GPCP version 2.3 precipitation data <a href="http://precip.mon.mean.nc" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">precip.mon.mean.nc</a> from <font size="3" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"> </font><p style="margin:0px"><font size="3"><a href="https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.gpcp.html#detail" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#0000ff">https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.gpcp.html#detail</font></a><b><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Courier Bold""><font color="#000000"> </font></span></b></font></p><p style="margin:0px"><font size="3" face=""Courier Bold"" color="#b00000"></font><span style="font:400 16px/24px Times New Roman;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent">but I cannot read the data.<font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" color="#004000"> How can I read this data.</font></span></p><p style="margin:0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px">Thank you.</p><p style="margin:0px">Hewage</p>

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