[ncl-install] fatal:Value too large for defined data type

[Dennis Shea]

Were you accessing this same file under 5.0.0?

Are any of the variables on the file larger than 2GB in size?




Teresa Valkonen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I tried to install NCL 5.1.0 and I thought I did it successfully since I
> can run test scripts without problems. But now I have a major problem. I
> am not able to read in my data which is output from WRF model. 
> 
> I try to read the file like this:
> a = addfile("../cases/dec07/wrfout_d03_2007-12-29_00:00:00.nc","r")
> 
> And I keep getting this error message:
> fatal:Value too large for defined data type
> fatal:Could not open (../cases/dec07/wrfout_d03_2007-12-29_00:00:00)
> 
> The file is about 12 Gb big but I never had any problems with the older
> version of NCL. Would you know what the problem is? I have a i686
> GNU/Linux.
> 
> Best regards
> Teresa Valkonen, doctoral student
> University of Helsinki, Finland
> 
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