Is there a way to promote a global numeric attribute to be a new
coordinate variable?
I read the bottom of
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/ncml/v2.2/Cookbook.html
but I am confused (time vs times? and why dateFormatMark which also
seems to be creating an ISO 8601 time axis?).
Can someone provide a more complete, less confusing, working example?
My best guess at the ncml is:
<netcdf xmlns="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/namespaces/netcdf/ncml-2.2";>
<variable name="time" type="int" shape="time" >
<attribute name="units" value="days since 2012-12-31"/>
<attribute name="_CoordinateAxisType" value="Time" />
</variable>
<aggregation dimName="time" type="joinNew" recheckEvery="15 min" >
<variableAgg name="chla"/>
<promoteGlobalAttribute name="time" orgName="startDay" />
<scan location="/testFiles/" suffix=".hdf" subdirs="false" />
</aggregation>
...
I have tried lots of variations, to no avail.
I have tried lots of variations with joinExisting, with and without the
<variable>, to no avail.
They almost all generate an unhelpful error message like:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at
ucar.nc2.ncml.AggregationOuterDimension.promoteGlobalAttributes(AggregationOuterDimension.java:176)
at
ucar.nc2.ncml.AggregationNew.buildNetcdfDataset(AggregationNew.java:73)
at ucar.nc2.ncml.Aggregation.finish(Aggregation.java:404)
at ucar.nc2.ncml.NcMLReader.readNetcdf(NcMLReader.java:492)
at ucar.nc2.ncml.NcMLReader.readNcML(NcMLReader.java:437)
at ucar.nc2.ncml.NcMLReader.access$100(NcMLReader.java:60)
at
ucar.nc2.ncml.NcMLReader$NcmlElementReader.open(NcMLReader.java:1406)
at
ucar.nc2.ncml.NcMLReader$NcmlElementReader.open(NcMLReader.java:1394)
at
ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.acquireFile(NetcdfDataset.java:625)
at
ucar.nc2.ncml.Aggregation$Dataset.acquireFile(Aggregation.java:634)
at
ucar.nc2.ncml.AggregationUnion.buildNetcdfDataset(AggregationUnion.java:65)
at ucar.nc2.ncml.Aggregation.finish(Aggregation.java:404)
at ucar.nc2.ncml.NcMLReader.readNetcdf(NcMLReader.java:492)
at ucar.nc2.ncml.NcMLReader.readNcML(NcMLReader.java:437)
at ucar.nc2.ncml.NcMLReader.readNcML(NcMLReader.java:252)
at ucar.nc2.ncml.NcMLReader.readNcML(NcMLReader.java:202)
at
ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.acquireNcml(NetcdfDataset.java:847)
at
ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.openOrAcquireFile(NetcdfDataset.java:686)
at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.openFile(NetcdfDataset.java:563)
at ucar.nc2.NCdumpW.print(NCdumpW.java:212)
Any suggestions?
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Bob Simons
IT Specialist
Environmental Research Division
NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center
1352 Lighthouse Ave
Pacific Grove, CA 93950-2079
Phone: (831)658-3205
Fax: (831)648-8440
Email: bob.simons@xxxxxxxx
The contents of this message are mine personally and
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