Dear Cynthia, Is there any chance that you can send me a sample dataset?
- Aashish On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 6:15 PM Hart, Cynthia Joyce - (cyndyb) < [email protected]> wrote: > Folks – > > > > I am struggling with using the netCDF reader, with a bunch of timeseries > of WRF data output (weather prediction modeling). I am a visualizer, NOT a > meteorologist, and so, my full understanding of the model’s output is shaky > at best. The researcher I am trying to assist is currently on vacation, > and I’m trying to animate the output of his WRF model. > > > > So! I have been viewing some of the output using the built in reader in > Paraview (the ‘generic and cf’ reader) and it works for some variables, not > for others. I am using NCO tools to extract some of the variables of > interest into their own CDF file, to try and isolate the problem Paraview > has, reading some variables.. but that doesn’t help. I am particularly > trying to read a variable for radar data, “REFL_10CM”. Here is the > relevant bit of the file header from ncdump, below: > > > > netcdf ARAD4_test2 { > > dimensions: > > Time = UNLIMITED ; // (1 currently) > > south_north = 393 ; > > west_east = 639 ; > > bottom_top = 37 ; > > variables: > > float REFD_MAX(Time, south_north, west_east) ; > > REFD_MAX:FieldType = 104 ; > > REFD_MAX:MemoryOrder = "XY " ; > > REFD_MAX:description = "MAX DERIVED RADAR > REFL" ; > > REFD_MAX:units = "dbZ" ; > > REFD_MAX:stagger = "" ; > > REFD_MAX:coordinates = "XLONG XLAT XTIME" ; > > float REFL_10CM(Time, bottom_top, south_north, west_east) ; > > REFL_10CM:FieldType = 104 ; > > REFL_10CM:MemoryOrder = "XYZ" ; > > REFL_10CM:description = "Radar > reflectivity (lamda = 10 cm)" ; > > REFL_10CM:units = "dBZ" ; > > REFL_10CM:stagger = "" ; > > REFL_10CM:coordinates = "XLONG XLAT XTIME" > ; > > float XLAT(Time, south_north, west_east) ; > > XLAT:FieldType = 104 ; > > XLAT:MemoryOrder = "XY " ; > > XLAT:description = "LATITUDE, SOUTH IS > NEGATIVE" ; > > XLAT:units = "degree_north" ; > > XLAT:stagger = "" ; > > XLAT:coordinates = "XLONG XLAT" ; > > float XLONG(Time, south_north, west_east) ; > > XLONG:FieldType = 104 ; > > XLONG:MemoryOrder = "XY " ; > > XLONG:description = "LONGITUDE, WEST IS > NEGATIVE" ; > > XLONG:units = "degree_east" ; > > XLONG:stagger = "" ; > > XLONG:coordinates = "XLONG XLAT" ; > > float XTIME(Time) ; > > XTIME:FieldType = 104 ; > > XTIME:MemoryOrder = "0 " ; > > XTIME:description = "minutes since > 2016-07-29 12:00:00" ; > > XTIME:units = "minutes since 2016-07-29 > 12:00:00" ; > > XTIME:stagger = "" ; > > > > Paraview complains that it cannot read a variable with more than three > dimensions without time. But there appears to ‘be’ time (I’m very unclear > what “UNLIMITED” time , as seen in the header, refers to in this context). > Is there any way I can work around this? Most frustrating. I can > actually read this variable into QGIS, but I’d rather use the strengths of > Paraview to visualize this data. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview >
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