<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Dear NCL user,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">i am trying to list number of files and extract them but there is an error message</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>ncendef: ncid 393216: NetCDF: One or more variable sizes violate format constraints</div><div>fatal:NetCDF: Operation not allowed in define mode: error attempting to write variable (time) to file.......</div></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">below are the codes i am using to list the files ,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><div>fils = systemfunc ("ls /home/dir/ua_Amon_HadGEM2-ES_historical_*.nc") ; file paths</div><div>f = addfiles (fils, "r")</div><div>ListSetType (f, "cat")</div><div>U_wnd = f[:]->ua(:,:,:,:)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>U_wnd!0 = "time"</div><div>U_wnd!1 = "plev"</div><div>U_wnd!2 = "lat"</div><div>U_wnd!3 = "lon"</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">is that because of the large file size? please guide me to overcome with this error </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">thank you,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">regards,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Ayesha </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>