[ncl-talk] reading pnetcdf/CDF-5 files

[David Brown]

OK, can you correspond off-line with myself or Mary Haley about your
system requirements, etc? We will try to match you with a suitable
binary.
 -dave

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Gerard Ketefian - NOAA Affiliate
<gerard.ketefian at noaa.gov> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Getting a pre-release version of NCL would be swell!  It would save us a lot
> of work trying to get around the problem in a roundabout way.
>
> I already have NetCDF-C 4.4.0 installed, and that seems to be able to read
> the metadata in my CDF5 file, so the pre-release NCL will also likely work.
>
> Thanks!
> Gerard
>
>
> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 12:03 PM, David Brown <dbrown at ucar.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Gerard,
>> Support for CDF5 was added to the NetCDF C library for version 4.4.0.
>> We have enabled support in NCL for this feature and the next release
>> of NCL will include it. If you are in a hurry we could make a
>> pre-release version available on request.
>>  -dave
>>
>> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Gerard Ketefian - NOAA Affiliate
>> <gerard.ketefian at noaa.gov> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm trying to read a NetCDF file generated using pnetcdf's CDF-5 format,
>> > but
>> > I'm getting a segfault when I try to open the file with addfile(...).
>> >
>> > It seems like as of 2013, NCL didn't have support for the CDF-5 format
>> > (see
>> > this question/answer:
>> >
>> > http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/parallel-netcdf/2013-June/001463.html).
>> >
>> > Is this still the case?  I didn't find any reference to the CDF-5 format
>> > in
>> > the NCL documentation, so I suspect that CDF-5 formatted files are still
>> > not
>> > readable by NCL.  If so, are there plans to add this feature?  Other
>> > suggestions?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Gerard
>> >
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