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Hi Jay,

Thank you very much for your reply. I'll upgrade our McIdas-V installation in the next few days.


Jin

I'm following the tutorial "Gridded Data" which is linked from "https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/mcidas/software/v/doc. Following the instruction under the heading, "Displaying Gridded data: 2D" I have as the catalog, "http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/mcidas/software". When I cli...

Hi Bob,

I'll try installing the 1.7beta version and test it.

Thank you very much for your help over a number of weeks. I now have a better understanding of the NetCDF format that McIdas-V will accept. Your help is much appreciated.



Regards,

Jin

Hi Bob, I've modelled my NetCDF file on the one you've given me and now it looks like McIdas-V is able to read it as point data. One thing that's still not working is Image Display (Gridded Fields). When I try "Gridded Fields" "Color-Shaded Plan View" I get following error messag...

Hi Bob, Sorry I haven't been able to reply sooner. I thought I would get to the bottom of this without bothering you again but I think I still have a problem with my NetCDF file. Following your suggestion I changed the shape of my variables as well as replacing the "record" dimension with ...

Hi Bob, I loaded the data as gridded data and used your NcML, and this allowed me to do Value Plots. However, "Plan Views > Color-Shaded Plan View" display doesn't seem to work for me even when I choose "Layer Controls > Display Mode" to be "Mesh". Thank you very much f...

Hi Bob, For "Data Type" I chose "netCDF/GEMPAK Point Data files" when I was loading my data file. After "Add Source" completed "Field Selector" -> "Fields" only showed "Gridded Fields", "Gridded Fields (with first guess) and "Poin...

Hi Bob, I have put my original NetCDF file on the ftp server you nominated, /pub/incoming/20160528053000-P1S-ABOM_OBS_B01-PRJ_GEOS141_2000-HIMAWARI8-AHI.cf.nc By the way when I try to do "Point Data Plot -> Create Display" using my NetCDF file I get following error message, loading data Va...

Hello, I have created a NetCDF file with the following structure, > ncdump 20160528053000-P1S-ABOM_OBS_B01-PRJ_GEOS141_2000-HIMAWARI8-AHI.cf.nc netcdf \20160528053000-P1S-ABOM_OBS_B01-PRJ_GEOS141_2000-HIMAWARI8-AHI.cf { dimensions: time = 1 ; record = 100 ; variables: int time(time) ; time:units = &...

Test. Please ignore.

I'm attaching a sample data file.