Hi Bill:
Usually the problem is in tyhe tables. Can you send us a sample file it fails
on? Our Grib expert,
Robb Kambic, can have a look.Ill
Ill fix the download problem, thanks for reporting.
Bill Moninger wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> two items: a small one and a (maybe) big one.
>
> First, on page
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/netcdf/netcdf-java-4/index.jsp
> the link to netcdfAll-4.0.jar actually points to netcdf-4.0.jar.
>
> Second, the latest netcdfAll-4.0.jar does not read the RUC grib2 files
> correctly, at least as I'm using it. It doesn't find the hybrid dimension.
>
> Here's a snip from ncfile.toString():
> ----------------------------------------------------
> ncfile is netcdf /public/data/grids/ruc/hyb_A252/grib2/0905622000003 {
> dimensions:
> time = 1;
> y = 225;
> x = 301;
> depth_below_surface = 5;
> depth_below_surface1 = 1;
> depth_below_surface2 = 2;
> depth_below_surface3 = 1;
> height_above_ground = 1;
> height_above_ground1 = 1;
> pressure_difference_layer = 1;
> bounds_dim = 2;
> variables:
> ...
> float Pressure(time=1, y=225, x=301);
> :units = "Pa";
> :long_name = "Pressure @ hybrid";
> :missing_value = -9999.0f; // float
> :grid_mapping = "Lambert_Conformal";
> :GRIB_param_discipline = "Meteorological_products";
> :GRIB_param_category = "Mass";
> :GRIB_param_name = "Pressure";
> :GRIB_param_id = 2, 0, 3, 0; // int
> :GRIB_product_definition_type = "Analysis/forecast at horizontal
> level/layer";
> :GRIB_level_type = 105; // int
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> And here's some output from wgrib2 on the same file:
>>wgrib2 /public/data/grids/ruc/hyb_A252/grib2/0905622000003|more
> 1:0:d=2009022522:PRES:1 hybrid level:3 hour fcst:
> 2:70425:d=2009022522:PRES:2 hybrid level:3 hour fcst:
> 3:140762:d=2009022522:PRES:3 hybrid level:3 hour fcst:
> 4:211202:d=2009022522:PRES:4 hybrid level:3 hour fcst:
> 5:281657:d=2009022522:PRES:5 hybrid level:3 hour fcst:
> 6:351773:d=2009022522:PRES:6 hybrid level:3 hour fcst:
> 7:421147:d=2009022522:PRES:7 hybrid level:3 hour fcst:
> 8:489799:d=2009022522:PRES:8 hybrid level:3 hour fcst:
> 9:557601:d=2009022522:PRES:9 hybrid level:3 hour fcst:
> 10:624657:d=2009022522:PRES:10 hybrid level:3 hour fcst:
> 11:691379:d=2009022522:PRES:11 hybrid level:3 hour fcst:
> 12:758346:d=2009022522:PRES:12 hybrid level:3 hour fcst:
> 13:825473:d=2009022522:PRES:13 hybrid level:3 hour fcst:
> 14:892604:d=2009022522:PRES:14 hybrid level:3 hour fcst:
> 15:959705:d=2009022522:PRES:15 hybrid level:3 hour fcst:
>
> Is this a problem with our grib tables not having information about
> hybrid levels?
>
> -Bill
>
> On 2/19/2009 5:28 PM, John Caron wrote:
>> Version 4.0 is now the the stable release for the Netcdf-Java library.
>> It is available at
>>
>> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/
>>
>> Version 4.0 continues to evolve with new features. However, a stable
>> release means that we will keep
>> future changes to the API backwards compatible to the public API at:
>>
>>
>> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/v4.0/javadoc/index.html
>>
>> Version 2.2 is on "maintenence only" mode. We encourage you to switch
>> to 4.0 to take advantage of
>> many significant improvements and bug fixes.
>>
>> Please report problems, bugs and suggested improvements to
>> netcdf-java@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> There are API changes that you may see when you start using 4.0 with
>> an application that has been
>> using 2.2. These are mostly minor and in all cases have equivalent or
>> improved functionality in 4.0.
>> Most of the changes are in implementation classes not often used by
>> applications. More info is at:
>>
>> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/transition4.html
>>
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