<p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">Hello NCL people,</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">I'm trying to read files from the MPI-ESM1.1 large ensemble with addfiles. I'm always getting the same error, regardless of the sample size, so it shouldn't be an actual memory issue.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">mslp_list = systemfunc("ls /home/users/ggraffin/CMIP5/historical/MPI-ESM1.1/MPI-ESM1.1_historical_lkm011*mslp_commongrid.nc")</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">mslp_file = addfiles(mslp_list,"r")</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">ListSetType(mslp_file,"join")</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">fatal:["NclFile.c":2100]:Subscript out of range, error in subscript #0</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">fatal:Memory allocation failure:[errno=12]</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">I can't even use functions like getfiledimsizes or getfileatts, because I get the following error. </span><br><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">dsizes = getfileatts(mslp_file(0)) </span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">fatal:Argument type mismatch on argument (0) of (getfileatts) can not coerce </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">Both mslp_file and mslp_list have 10 elements as they should.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">printVarSummary(mslp_file)          </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">Variable: mslp_file</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">Type: list <join | fifo></span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">Total items: 10</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">printVarSummary(mslp_list)</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">Variable: mslp_list</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">Type: string</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">Total Size: 80 bytes</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">           10 values</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">Number of Dimensions: 1</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">Dimensions and sizes:    [10]</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">Coordinates: </span><br> </p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">I'm sure it's a file-dependent issue, because addfiles works fine on subset of files from other sources. I'm asking for suggestions about things I can try so I can understand what's going on. Here is the file dump of one of the files.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">Copyright (C) 1995-2019 - All Rights Reserved</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">University Corporation for Atmospheric Research</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">NCAR Command Language Version 6.6.2</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">Variable: f</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">Type: file</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">filename:    MPI-ESM1.1_historical_lkm0110_mslp_commongrid</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">path:    /home/users/ggraffin/CMIP5/historical/MPI-ESM1.1/MPI-ESM1.1_historical_lkm0110_mslp_commongrid.nc</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">  file global attributes:</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">     CDI : Climate Data Interface version 1.9.5 (http://mpimet.mpg.de/cdi)</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">     Conventions : CF-1.4</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">     history : Tue Jun 20 17:34:23 2023: ncap2 -O -s time=float(time) /home/users/ggraffin/CMIP5/historical/MPI-ESM1.1/MPI-ESM1.1_historical_lkm0110_mslp_commongrid.nc /home/users/ggraffin/CMIP5/historical/MPI-ESM1.1/MPI-ESM1.1_historical_lkm0110_mslp_commongrid.nc</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">Tue Apr 18 17:40:36 2023: cdo remapbil,CMIP5/CMIP5_grid.txt /home/users/qx920595/baobab/CMIP5/historical/MPI-ESM1.1/MPI-ESM1.1_historical_lkm0110_mslp_year.nc /home/users/qx920595/baobab/CMIP5/historical/MPI-ESM1.1/MPI-ESM1.1_historical_lkm0110_mslp_commongrid.nc</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">Tue Apr 18 17:40:30 2023: ncks -v slp /storage/basic/baobab/jonathan/thorsten/MPI-ESM1.1_historical_lkm0110_yearmean.nc /home/users/qx920595/baobab/CMIP5/historical/MPI-ESM1.1/MPI-ESM1.1_historical_lkm0110_mslp_year.nc</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">Sat Sep 24 17:07:31 2016: cdo -f nc -t echam6 yearmean /scratch/m/m300057/historical_ensemble/lkm0110_BOT /scratch/m/m300057/historical_ensemble/MPI-ESM1.1_historical_lkm0110_yearmean.nc</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">     source : ECHAM6</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">     institution : Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">     NCO : netCDF Operators version 5.0.7 (Homepage = http://nco.sf.net, Code = http://github.com/nco/nco)</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">     CDO : Climate Data Operators version 1.9.5 (http://mpimet.mpg.de/cdo)</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">  dimensions:</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">     time = 156  // unlimited</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">     bnds = 2</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">     lon = 180</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">     lat = 120</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">  variables:</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">     float time ( time )</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">        axis :    T</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">        bounds :    time_bnds</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">        calendar :    proleptic_gregorian</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">        standard_name :    time</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">        units :    day as %Y%m%d.%f</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">     double time_bnds ( time, bnds )</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">     double lon ( lon )</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">        standard_name :    longitude</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">        long_name :    longitude</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">        units :    degrees_east</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">        axis :    X</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">     double lat ( lat )</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">        standard_name :    latitude</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">        long_name :    latitude</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">        units :    degrees_north</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">        axis :    Y</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">     float slp ( time, lat, lon )</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">        long_name :    mean sea level pressure</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">        units :    Pa</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">        code :    151</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">        table :    128</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">Thanks a lot.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;">Giorgio</span></p>