[NARCCAP-discuss] ncdump

[Michael Wehner]

I just tried it on 3hour precipitation from MM5I/ccsm and it worked fine.
michael
On May 24, 2011, at 10:41 AM, Antonia Rosati wrote:

> We've received another excellent question!
> Please feel free to reply with any information, experience, answers, 
> or questions you my have.
> Thank you!
> 
> 
> Q - I use ncdump to extract the data to process in fortran and matlab. 
> I have downloaded data for MMSI runs in CCSM. My version of ncdump can 
> not read any of the files for tas or huss from those simulations with 
> MM5I in CCSM. This version of ncdump has not failed on any of the 
> other NARCCAP data files so I wondered - is there anything different 
> about those files? The error I get is ncdump: ncopen failed on 
> filename.
> ~ user
> 
> 
> A - One possibility is that you may have a very old version of the 
> netcdf library. The MM5I-ccsm files are in 64-bit offset format, 
> instead of classic format, so you need at least version 3.6.0 of the 
> netcdf library to read them. (Converting them to classic format is on 
> our to-do list, but it'll probably be a while before we get to it.) 
> However, the HRM3-hadcm3 files are in classic format, so that can't be 
> the problem there.  I would guess that maybe the download was 
> corrupted – that's a common cause of problems with unreadable files.
> ~ Seth
> 
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