Greetings James,
I think you need to add the following attribute to the pet variable:
coordinates = "time lon lat"
If that does not work, would you have a sample file that you could share?
Thanks!
Sean
On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 1:28 PM, James Adams <monocongo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have Java code which gets a GeoGrid object from a NetCDF GridDataset via
> the variable name. It normally works correctly but for the input NetCDF
> file I currently need to work with I get an error when this code runs, in
> that the GeoGrid is not found, even though you can see the variable in the
> NetCDF dataset using other tools such as ncdump and/or when stepping
> through the code with a debugger.
>
> This code works as expected with other NetCDF files so I assume that there
> must be something in the NetCDF file itself which is preventing the fetch
> of a variable's grid via a lookup of the variable name. When I view the
> NetCDF file I can see the variable and it displays as a Geo2D type in
> Panoply. The ncdump -h output for the file is below:
>
> File "prism_nidis_pet.nc"
> Dataset type: NetCDF-3/CDM
>
> netcdf file:/C:/home/prism/prism_nidis_pet.nc {
> dimensions:
> lon = 1405;
> lat = 621;
> time = UNLIMITED; // (1457 currently
> variables:
> int time(time=1457);
> :long_name = "time";
> :standard_name = "time";
> :units = "days since 1800-1-1 00:00:00";
> :calendar = "gregorian";
>
> float lon(lon=1405);
> :long_name = "longitude";
> :standard_name = "longitude";
> :units = "degrees_north";
>
> float lat(lat=621);
> :long_name = "latitude";
> :standard_name = "latitude";
> :units = "degrees_west";
>
> float pet(time=1457, lon=1405, lat=621);
> :calibration_start_year_month = "full";
> :calibration_end_year_month = "full";
> :_FillValue = -999.9f; // float
> :missing_value = -999.9f; // float
> :valid_min = 0.0f; // float
> :valid_max = 3.4028235E38f; // float
> :units = "millimeters";
> :cell_methods = "time: potential evapotranspiration estimate,
> Thornthwaite equation";
> :long_name = "Potential evapotranspiration estimate,
> Thornthwaite equation";
> :standard_name = "Potential evapotranspiration estimate,
> Thornthwaite equation";
>
> // global attributes:
> :date_created = "2016-06-23 11:52:37";
> :date_modified = "2016-06-23 11:52:37";
> :standard_name_vocabulary = "CF Standard Name Table (v26, 08
> November 2013)";
> :Conventions = "1.6";
> :geospatial_lon_min = -125.0f; // float
> :geospatial_lon_max = -66.5f; // float
> :geospatial_lat_min = 24.083334f; // float
> :geospatial_lat_max = 49.916668f; // float
> }
>
> Is there anything about the file described above which would prevent being
> able to get a GeoGrid associated with the variable named "pet"?
>
> Below is the code which is failing when using the above file as input.
>
>
> private GeoGrid getGrid(final String netcdfFile,
> final String variableName)
> throws IOException
> {
> // open the NetCDF data set
> GridDataset gridDataset = GridDataset.open(netcdfFile);
>
> // verify that we opened the GridDataset
> if (gridDataset == null)
> {
> String errorMessage = "Error opening the NetCDF data set
> using the file \'" + netcdfFile + "\'";
> logger.error(errorMessage);
> throw new RuntimeException(errorMessage);
> }
>
> // THIS IS WHERE THE PROBLEM OCCURS
> // get the grid based on the associated variable name
> GeoGrid geoGrid =
> gridDataset.findGridByShortName(variableName);
>
> // verify that we found the GeoGrid
> if (geoGrid == null)
> {
> String errorMessage = "Error finding the NetCDF grid from
> the NetCDF file \'" + netcdfFile + "\' using the variable name \'" +
> variableName + "\'";
> logger.error(errorMessage);
> throw new RuntimeException(errorMessage);
> }
>
> // more code omitted...
> }
>
> When the above code runs and fails the arguments are the NetCDF file name
> and "pet" which is the variable name in that NetCDF for which we're trying
> to get the corresponding grid.
>
> Can anyone suggest what's going wrong here? Thanks in advance...
>
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