Hi Anthony-
Anthony P Praino wrote:
I assume this may be a newbie question but I have checked the user manual,
tutorial and scanned archives but have not run across an answer.
Well, you didn't miss anything. It's just not there.
How does
one 'catalog' or group gridded data files together. I am trying to create
animation sequences of WRF gridded fields from a locally run model. When I
use the data chooser to select a group of WRF output files which are
timestepped files (either netCDF or grib2), I cannot group them in order
to create a display based upon a selected field of multiple times.
The nightly release of the IDV allows you to aggregate WRF
GRIB2 files together from disk or from a remote server. You can
download this from:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/release/nightly
From disk, use the file chooser and set the Datasource Type to be
"Aggregated Grid files". This will not work with the WRF netCDF files.
Basically, the grid reader generates a netCDF Markup Language (NcML)
aggregation file on the fly. You could also just create an NcML file
manually and read that in. For information on creating NcML files for
aggregation, see:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/ncml/v2.2/Aggregation.html
The NcML that the Aggregated Grid Data uses looks something like:
<netcdf xmlns="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/namespaces/netcdf/ncml-2.2";>
<aggregation type="joinExisting" dimName="time">
<netcdf location="file:/I:/rtmodel/07051012_nmm_alt1.GrbF000" />
<netcdf location="file:/I:/rtmodel/07051012_nmm_alt1.GrbF001" />
<netcdf location="file:/I:/rtmodel/07051012_nmm_alt1.GrbF002" />
</aggregation>
</netcdf>
This is still not in the documentation, though. ;-)
I have
tried this with cataloged data sources and it works fine (what are the
details of gridded catalog sources such as NCEP NAM 12km).
This has all timesteps in one file.
I have also
tried to manually create a display out for each time which I can see in
the dashboard but the display visual does not change even though the files
appear to be sequencing. Any help of pointers to such information is
appreciated.
If there is only one time associated with the data, it gets shown on all
times. So, in this case, each file has one timestep and they all get
shown no matter what time the animation is on.
We hope to make a full release of version 2.2 on Monday.
Don
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