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

[Dennis Shea]

The 12.9GB file was ftp'd to NCAR.

-rw-r--r--  1 shea cgdcas 12940300292 Oct  7 13:42 
wrfout_d03_2007-12-29_00:00:00

I had *no* problems on several linux systems

%>  uname -a

Linux donovan 2.6.9-67.0.22.plus.c4 #1 Wed Jul 23 17:34:19 EDT 2008 i686 
i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Linux poorman 2.6.9-67.0.22.plus.c4smp #1 SMP Wed Jul 23 17:49:13 EDT 
2008 i686 i686 i386GNU/Linux
Linux hurricane 2.6.9-67.0.22.plus.c4smp #1 SMP Wed Jul 23 17:55:15 EDT 
2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

/project/cas/shea/WRF> ncl

 Copyright (C) 1995-2009 - All Rights Reserved
 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
 NCAR Command Language Version 5.1.0
 The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
 See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.

ncl 0> f = addfile("wrfout_d03_2007-12-29_00:00:00.nc" , "r")
ncl 1> h = f->HGT
ncl 3> printVarSummary(h)


Variable: h
Type: float
Total Size: 14108544 bytes
            3527136 values
Number of Dimensions: 3
Dimensions and sizes:   [Time | 331] x [south_north | 96] x [west_east | 
111]
Coordinates:
Number Of Attributes: 6
  FieldType :   104
  MemoryOrder : XY
  description : Terrain Height
  units :       m
  stagger :
  coordinates : XLONG XLAT


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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